RAND Chooses Vet to Direct Army Research

Also Names New Board Member

   Thomas L. McNaugher, a West Point graduate and Vietnam and Desert Storm veteran, has been named a vice president of the RAND Corporation and director of the Arroyo Center, the think tank’s U.S. Army-sponsored research division.
   A specialist in conventional forces, weapons acquisition and Persian Gulf and Asian security issues, McNaugher succeeds David Chu, who left RAND earlier this year to become Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness.
   This is McNaugher’s second stint at RAND. He previously served as a policy analyst from 1977 to 1981, when he went to the Brookings Institute as a researcher in its foreign policy studies program. He returned to RAND in 1995.
   The new vice president holds a B.S. degree from the United States Military Academy, an M.P.A. in international relations and a Ph.D. from Harvard.
   He was an Army captain in Vietnam in 1970-71, and a Lieutenant Colonel in Operation Desert Storm with his Army Reserve unit. He recently retired from the Reserves as a full colonel.
   McNaugher has published numerous articles and is the author of three books: “The M16 Controversies: Military Organization and Weapons Acquisition;” “Arms and Oil:U.S. Military Strategy and the Persian Gulf;” and “New Weapons, Old Politics: America’s Military Procurement Muddle.”
   A resident of McLean, Virginia, McNaugher works in RAND’s Washington D.C. office.
   RAND President and CEO James Thomson has also announced the appointment of Paul G. Kaminski to the RAND Board of Trustees.
   CEO of Technovation, Inc. a technology consulting company, and senior partner in Global Technology Partners, an investment affiliate of Rothschild North America, he was previously chairman and CEO of Technology Strategies and Alliances, an investment banking and consulting firm.
   A graduate of the Air Force Academy with two M.S. degrees from MIT and a Ph.D in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford, Kaminski served a 20-year tour in the Air Force, much of which was devoted to managing development of advanced military technology systems. From 1994 to 1997, he was Undersecretary of Defense for acquisition and technology.
   He has also served as chairman of the Defense Science Board, was a member of the Defense Policy Board, a consultant to a variety of federal agencies, and he holds a Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service.