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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