Nomination of Henry F. Cooper, Jr., To Be an Assistant Director of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

The President today announced his intention to nominate Henry F. Cooper, Jr., to be an Assistant Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (Bureau of Strategic Programs). He would succeed David Marion Clinard.

Dr. Cooper has been serving as Deputy for the Strategic and Space Systems, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research, Development and Logistics, since 1979. He was a member of the senior technical staff and program manager or associates program manager of study contracts with the Director of Defense Research and Engineering, the Defense Nuclear Agency, the Advanced Research Projects Agency, the U.S. Air Force, and the Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, for R & D Associates in 1972-1979. He was scientific adviser to the Civil Engineering Division of the Air Force Weapons Laboratory in 1967-1972. He served as Project Officer in the Civil Engineering Division at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory in 1964-1967.

He graduated from Clemson University (B.S., 1958; M.S., 1960) and New York University (Ph.D., 1964). He is married, has three children, and resides in McLean, Va. He was born November 8, 1936.