登录号:00000文件id:95082802。美国国防部新闻办公室于1995年8月28日提供了国防部长威廉·佩里的传记。佩里国务卿将于9月15日开始访问斯洛文尼亚、斯洛伐克、捷克共和国、匈牙利和德国加米施的马歇尔中心。)1994年2月3日，经过参议院一致投票，威廉·佩里博士宣誓就任国防部长。从1993年3月5日起，他曾担任国防部副部长，直到他被任命为国防部长。在被提名为这些职位之前，他是技术战略与联盟的主席，斯坦福大学工程学院的教授，斯坦福大学国际安全和军备控制中心的联合主任。佩里博士1927年10月11日出生于宾夕法尼亚州的范德格拉夫特。他在斯坦福大学(Stanford University)获得理学学士和硕士学位，在宾夕法尼亚州立大学(Penn State)获得数学博士学位。他是the National Academy of Engineering和the American Academy of Arts and Sciences的成员。从1946年到1947年，佩里博士是陆军工程兵团的士官，在日本和冲绳服役。 He joined the Reserve Officer Training Corps in 1948 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Reserves in 1950. He remained in the reserves until 1955. Dr. Perry's extensive experience as an entrepreneur includes being one of the founders of ESL Inc. in 1964 and serving as its president until 1977. Prior to that, he was with Sylvania/General Telephone and was the director of their Electronic Defense Laboratories. He has also served as executive vice president of Hambrecht and Quist Incorporated, an investment banking firm in San Francisco specializing in high technology companies. From 1977 to 1981, Dr. Perry was Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. As the Under Secretary, he was responsible for all weapon systems procurement and all research and development. He was the Secretary of Defense's principal advisor on technology, communications, intelligence, and atomic energy. He received the Army's Outstanding Service Medal in 1977, the Department of Defense's Distinguished Public Service Medal in 1980 and again in 1981, and NASA's Distinguished Service Medal in 1981. He was awarded the 1980 Medal of Achievement by the American Electronics Association. The Federal Republic of Germany awarded him the Knight Commander's Cross in 1981, and the French government conferred the Grand Officer de L'Ordre National du Merite in 1982. He received the James Forrestal Memorial Award for 1993 in March 1994. Dr. Perry has served as a director of FMC Corporation, United Technologies Corporation, and a number of private companies. He has also been a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and served on a number of U.S. government advisory boards, including the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and the Technical Review Panel of the U.S. Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence. He is a member of the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government and the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the National Academy of Science. His wife, Lee, is a CPA, formerly associated with the firm of Hemming and Morse in San Mateo. Secretary and Mrs. Perry have two sons living in the San Francisco area, a son and a daughter in the Washington, D.C. area, and a daughter in New York. NNNN