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William James Perry (born October 11, 1927) is an American mathematician, engineer, and businessman who was the United States Secretary of Defense from February 3, 1994, to January 23, 1997, under President Bill Clinton. He also served as Deputy Secretary of Defense (1993–1994) and Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (1977–1981). Perry is currently the Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor (emeritus) at Stanford University, with a joint appointment at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the School of Engineering. He is also a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He serves as co-director of the Nuclear Risk Reduction initiative and the Preventive Defense Project. He is an expert in U.S. foreign policy, national security and arms control. Former Secretary Perry also has extensive business experience and currently serves on the boards of several high-tech companies and is Chairman of Global Technology Partners. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among Perry's numerous awards are the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1997), Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1998) and the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (2002), awarded by the Emperor of Japan. ==Early life and career== Born in Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, Perry graduated from Butler Senior High School in 1945 and served in the United States Army as an enlisted man from 1946 to 1947, including service in the Occupation of Japan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=William J. Perry Title U.S. Secretary of Defense )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Secretary of Defense William J. Perry - National Defense University )〕 Perry later received a commission in the United States Army Reserve through ROTC, serving from 1950 to 1955. Perry received his B.S. (1949) and M.A. (1950) degrees from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Pennsylvania State University in 1957.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title =Joseph C. Martz from Los Alamos National Lab named inaugural Perry Fellow )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Famous Nonmathematicians )〕 He was director of the Electronic Defense Laboratories of Sylvania/GTE in California from 1954 to 1964, and from 1964 to 1977 president of Electromagnetic Systems Laboratory (ESL), Incorporated, an electronics firm that he founded.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dr. William J. Perry Secretary of Defense )〕 He was instrumental in demonstrating the technical feasibility of extracting Signals intelligence on the Soviet Union from the overall Rf background with the then proposed Rhyolite/Aquacade surveillance program.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Charting a Technical Revolution: An interview with former DDS&T Albert Wheelon )〕 In 1967 he was hired as a technical consultant to the Department of Defense. From 1977 to 1981, during the Jimmy Carter administration, Perry served as Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, where he had responsibility for weapon systems procurement and research and development.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=UNDER SECRETARIES OF DEFENSE Under Secretary of Defense (Research and Engineering) )〕 Among other achievements, he was instrumental in the development of stealth aircraft technology. Not all of the programs he developed were as well-received, however. As journalist Paul Glastris wrote in the ''Washington Monthly'':
On leaving The Pentagon in 1981 Perry became managing director until 1985 of Hambrecht & Quist, a San Francisco investment banking firm "specializing in high-tech and defense companies."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Honorable William J. Perry )〕 He was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1983 to serve on the President's Commission on Strategic Forces.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Appointment of William J. Perry as a Member of the President's Commission on Strategic Forces )〕 Later in the 1980s and up to 1993, before returning to the Pentagon as deputy secretary of defense, he held positions as founder and chairman of Technology Strategies Alliances, professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, and a co-director of the Preventive Defense Project at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=William J. Perry )〕 He was also a member of the Packard Commission.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pentagon Papers Go On And On, And So Do Weapons Problems )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Perry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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