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Richard D. DeLauer
Pages 74-79

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... Returning to California in 1941, Dick joined the Northrop Black Widow night fighter project as a structural engineer. In 1942 he returned to the bay area to take ajob as a test engineer at the Moffett FielcT Naval Air Station.
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... In 1960 he was appointed director of the Titan Program Office, where he managed a multidisciplinar,v technical team that provided systems engineering and technical direction to the Air Force Titan ICBM associate contractor team. He later assumed program management oversight responsibility for the Atlas and Minuteman programs as well as Titan.
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From page 77...
... For the next decade, he led the defense and space systems, energy, and information systems activities of the corporation. He spearheaded significant technical advances in alternative energy research and production; pollution monitoring and control systems; petroleum exploration and production technology; defense command and control systems; data fusion technology; military, commercial, and reconnaissance spacecraft design, development, and orbital operations; and innovative international engineering ventures in defense, space, and commercial technology.
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... He enthusiastically supported the Acaclemy's programs and projects, serving as organizer and chairman of the 1970 Symposium on the Fooc3-People Balance and as chairman ofthe Nominating Committee in 1978. When Dick was asked why he felt qualified to undertake a searching examination of world food production, population trends, and related socioeconomic factors a subject far removecI from ballistic missile and space technology -Dick's answer was simple and direct: He said that world hunger was a quantifiable and definable problem, and engineers are trained as problem solvers.
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... He also served on the NationalAeronautics and SpaceAdministration'sAdvisory Committee, the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, the National Research Council'sAir Force Studies Board, the Naval Research Advisory Committee, the Energy Research Advisory Board of the Department of Energy, and the Army Materiel Acquisition Review Committee. He was the recipient of an honorary doctor of letters degree from the University of the Redlands.
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