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3 days ago · Developed in the 1960s by General Dynamics under Robert McNamara's TFX Program, the F-111 pioneered variable-sweep wings, afterburning turbofan engines, and automated terrain-following radar for low-level, high-speed flight.
1 day ago · In its absence, Nikita Khruschev had found that the best way to tell Washington he was pulling missiles out of Cuba was to announce it on Radio Moscow. But when the line first became hot, in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, Secretary of Defence Robert McNamara was surprised to discover that it was located in the Pentagon rather than the White House.
3 days ago · In 1961, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara merged logistics operations into the Defense Supply Agency (DSA), operational by January 1962. DSA mobilized during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and expanded significantly during the Vietnam War, responding to increased demands with additional personnel and resources.
5 days ago · The service was directed to collaborate with the U.S. Air Force in the Tactical Fighter Experimental (TFX) program by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, resulting in the F-111.
4 days ago · The importance of planning and transferring skills ‘from the spheres of business to military affairs’ (p. 501) is best illustrated by Robert McNamara. As an accountant at Harvard and a statistician at the Army Air Corps, the forerunner of the US Air Force, he and like-minded researchers, the so-called ‘Whiz Kids’, succeeded ...
3 days ago · Consequentially, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, who succeeded McElroy, suggested to President John F. Kennedy that funds designated for the Nike Zeus project be reallocated toward advancing ...
4 days ago · The younger Ford restructured the company’s tangled system of financial management. He reinvigorated its corporate culture by hiring talented younger managers—most notably Robert McNamara, who briefly served as Ford’s president before leaving to become the U.S. secretary of defense in 1961.
