Department of Defense Nomination of Robert B. Pirie, Jr., To Be an Assistant Secretary.

The President today announced that he will nominate Robert B. Pirie, Jr., as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Logistics. He would replace John P. White, whom the President has nominated as Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

Pirie, of Bethesda, Md., was born September 10, 1933, in San Diego, Calif. He received a B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1955 and an M.A. from Oxford University in 1963.

Pirie served in the U.S. Navy from 1955 to 1975, where he served on several nuclear submarines, as a staff analyst in the Naval Forces Division of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, as commanding officer of the U.S.S. Skipjack, as senior staff assistant to the Director of the National Security Council's Net Assessment Group, and as Deputy Director of Net Assessment in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

From 1975 to 1977, Pirie was deputy assistant director for national security of the Congressional Budget Office. Since 1977 he has been Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Logistics.