Alain C. Enthoven

excerpt from introduction by Scoop Jackson before subcommittee
hearing, September 27, 1967.

"We are pleased to have with us today an able pioneer in systems analysis techniques - Dr. Alain Enthoven, Assistant Secretary of Defense (Systems Analysis). To his great credit, he was born in Seattle, Washington! He received his Ph.D. degree in Economics at MIT.

Following four years as a full-time staff member of the RAND Corporation, Dr. Enthoven joined the Department of Defense in May 1960, in the Office of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering. He was appointed Deputy Comptroller for Systems Analysis (Programming) on May 23, 1961; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Systems Analysis), Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) on October 18, 1962; and sworn into the newly established position of Assistant Secretary of Defense (Systems Analysis) on September 10, 1965."