NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION WO 2-4155 N E W S WASHINGTON,D.C. 20546 TES W03-695

FOR RELEASE: IMMEDIATE

September 8, 1966

RELEASE NO: 66-247

Also released in

Cambridge, Mass.

KOCK RESIGNS,

ELMS NAMED

ERC DIRECTOR

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Dr. Winston E. Kock, first Director of

the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Electronics

Research Center here, has resigned to return to private industry.

James C. Elms, NASA's Deputy Associate Administrator for

Manned Space Flight, has been named Director by Administrator

James E. Webb.

The changes are effective October 1.

Dr. Kock has been the ERC Director since the Center was

formally established Sept. 1, 1964 to pioneer work in space and

aeronautical electronics. Previously he was Vice PresidentResearch of the Bendix Corporation, Detroit. He returns to

Bendix as Vice President and Chief Scientist and will serve as

a member of the Administration Committee.

Mr. Elms joined NASA Sept. 1, 1965 as the Deputy Associate

Administrator for Manned Space Flight.

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Previous to this appointment Mr. Elms was Vice Presidnet

and General Manager of the Space and Information Systems Division,

Raytheon Company, Sudbury, Mass. Before his association with

Raytheon he was the Deputy Director of the Manned Spacecraft

Center, Houston, from February 1963 to March 1964, charged with

responsibility for general management of the Center.

He has served in key management roles at North American

Aviation in the development of fire control and radar bombing

systems and at the Denver Division of the Martin Company on the

Titan I missile. Later, he was Executive Vice President of the

Crosley Division of Avco, and after his position with Avco, he

was the Director of Space and Electronics for the Ford Motor

Company's Aeronutronic Division.

Mr. Elms received his B.S. degree in physics from the

California Institute of Technology and his M.A. degree in physics

from the University of California at Los Angeles, where he was

a member of the faculty as a Research Associate in the Institute

of Geophysics.

He served in the Air Force during World War II. At the time

he left the Air Force he was head of the Guided Missile Unit of

the Armamer. Laboratory.

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A native of East Orange, N.J., Elms was born on May 16, 1916.

He is married to the former Patricia Marguerite Pafford of Phoenix,

Ariz. The couple has four children: Christopher Michael 21,

Suzanne 18, Francesca 16, and Deborah 12. He resides at 67 Maugus

Ave., Wellesley Hills, Mass.

Dr. Kock is returning en private industry after guiding the

Electronics Research Center through its formative years. Under

his direction, the Center has grown from a cadre of 70 persons to

a research and administrative staff of 550 including 76 scientists with doctorate degrees.

He has developed an electronics research program which to

date has committed over $8 million in research contracts and

grants to the nation's industries and universities. In addition,

Dr. Kock has guided the design and construction plans for the $60

million permanent site of the Center in Kendall Square, Cambridge.

Groundbreaking for the first phase in construction of the

permanent site is scheduled in the fall. This first phase will

include a 26-story tower building, a 3-story microwave laboratory

and a 3-story auditorium-cafeteria building,

Earlier this year, Dr. Kock was awarded the George Washington

Medal of the Engineers Club of Philadelphia for his administration

of the Center.

Dr. Kock is married and has three children. They reside

in Beverly Farms, Mass.

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