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President announced intention to nominate John J. Martin to be an Assistant Secretary of the Air Force [Position Appointments and Resignations]
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Digitized from Box 26 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MAY 18, 1976
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
The President today announced his intention to nominate John J. Martin,
of Bethesda, Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Air Force. His
area of responsibility will be Research and Development. He will succeed
Walter B. LaBerge who resigned effective on the date he assumed office as
Assistant Secretary General of NATO for Defense Support. Mr. Martin has been
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research and
Development since September, 1974.
Mr. Martin was born on October 19, 1922, in Detroit, Michigan. He attended
the University of Notre Dame and received his B.S. degree in 1943 and his
M.S. in 1950. He received his Ph. D. in 1951 from Purdue University. He
served in the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946 and in the U.S. Naval Re-
serve from 1946 to 1951.
In 1951, Mr. Martin joined the aerophysics laboratory of North American
Aviation, Inc. as a research engineer in preliminary design and Analysis.
He was Senior Engineer in the Systems Analysis Group of the Missile Section
in the Products Division of Bendix Aviation Corporation during 1953-54. He
served at Bendix Aviation successively as Assistant Chief Systems Analyst,
Senior Systems Engineer, Chief Engineer of the Applied Sciences Laboratory,
and Chief of Engineering Research from 1955 to 1960. He became a scientific
manager for the Institute for Defense Analyses in 1960 and later became a
Consultant to the Office of Director at IDA, serving until 1963. He was a con-
sultant on aircraft to the United Kingdom and lectured at the Royal Aircraft
Establishment during 1963-64.
From 1964 to 1969 he was employed at IDA in the Research and Engineering
Support Division; was Special Assistant to the Vice President for Research;
Assistant to the President and Director of the Systems Evaluation Division.
He was named Technical Assistant to the President's Science Advisor in Nov-
ember, 1969. He was appointed as Associate Deputy to the Director of Central
Intelligence in 1973 and served from March, 1974, to September, 1974, as
Special Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence.
Mr. Martin is married to the former Carol Kline and they have three children.
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