The President today announced his intention to nominate Alton Gold Keel, Jr., to be an Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Research, Development & Logistics).
From 1978 to the present, Dr. Keel was professional staff member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and is currently senior professional staff member of the committee. In 1977 Dr. Keel was selected as a Congressional Science Fellow by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He began serving in Senator Howard Cannon's (D-Nev.) office as a defense and technical adviser. From 1971 to 1977, he was with the Naval Surface Weapons Center, White Oak Laboratory, in Silver Spring, Md. In 1976 he became scientific staff assistant to the Associate Technical Director of the White Oak Laboratory.
Dr. Keel was a postdoctoral scholar (1971) at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1970 he received his Ph.D. in engineering physics from the University of Virginia. He received his bachelor of aerospace engineering in 1966 from the University of Virginia.
Dr. Keel was born September 8, 1943, in Newport News, Va. He is a resident of Washington, D.C.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Alton Gold Keel, Jr., To Be an Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/246611