19 May 1998


Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 14:15:04 -0400
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No. 248-98
(703)697-5131(media)
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 19, 1998
(703)697-5737(public/industry)
DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY DIRECTOR SELECTED

Deputy Secretary of Defense John J. Hamre announced today 
the selection of Dr. Jay C. Davis, a physicist, to head the 
effort to stand-up the proposed Defense Threat Reduction 
Agency (DTRA) on Oct. 1, 1998. At stand-up, Davis will 
assume the position of DTRA director.

A key element for the secretary's Defense Reform Initiative 
(DRI) is to strengthen the Department's ability to deal 
with the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).  
Countering WMD proliferation may represent the most important 
security challenge of the next decade.  

DTRA will be the Department's focal point for addressing this 
complex and comprehensive problem.  

The new agency is to be formed by consolidating the On-Site 
Inspection Agency, the Defense Special Weapons Agency, the 
Defense Technology Security Administration, and some program 
functions of the assistant for the secretary of Defense for 
Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs.  

The director, DTRA will report directly to the under secretary 
of Defense for Acquisition and Technology.

Davis is a nuclear physicist at Lawrence Livermore National 
Laboratory currently serving as the associate director for 
Earth and Environmental Sciences, integrating the Laboratory's 
efforts in environmental research, development and demonstration.  

He has been a scientific advisor to the United Nations Secretariat, 
several U.S. agencies, and to scientific agencies of the governments 
of Australia and New Zealand.  He participated in two U.N. 
inspections of Iraq as an expert on mass spectrometer and 
construction techniques.

Davis, who will assume his duties as head of the DTRA stand-up 
effort in June is a fellow of the American Physical Society.  
He received his bachelor's degree and master's degree in physics 
from the University of Texas and his doctorate in physics from 
the University of Wisconsin.

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