The President today announced his intention to nominate Robert Clifton Duncan to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense (Research and Technology). He would succeed Robert S. Cooper.
Dr. Duncan joined the Polaroid Corp., Cambridge, MA, in 1968 and is presently serving as vice president of engineering. Previously he served at Polaroid as assistant vice president (1969-1975). He was Chief of the Guidance and Control Division at NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, TX, in 1964-1967. He was special assistant to the Director of Defense Research and Engineering in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in 1961-1963. He was Chief, Space Programs Branch, in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations in 1960-1961.
Dr. Duncan graduated from the United States Naval Academy (B.S., 1945), the United States Naval Academy Postgraduate School (B.S., 1953), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.A., 1954; Sc.D., 1960). He is married, has four children, and resides in Weston, MA. He was born November 21, 1923, in Jonesville, VA.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Robert Clifton Duncan 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/258072