The President today announced his intention to nominate Gordon A. Smith to be Assistant Secretary of Defense (Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence) at the Department of Defense. He would succeed Donald C. Latham.
Since 1986 Mr. Smith has been Deputy Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization at the Pentagon. Prior to this he was president and chief operating officer of Fairchild Space Operations Co. and corporate vice president for operations at Fairchild Industries.
Mr. Smith graduated from Swindon Technical College in the United Kingdom (1957) and George Washington University (M.S., 1978; Ph.D., 1982). He was born April 1, 1934, in Swindon, United Kingdom. Mr. Smith is married and resides in Derwood, MD.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Gordon A. Smith To Be an Assistant Secretary of Defense Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/253978