Colonel, US Air Force. Graduated USMA 1930. Army Air Corps pilot from 1930 to 1934 with detached service as an air mail pilot during the Air Mail Emergency of 1934. Chief of the Propeller Laboratory, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio from 1939 to 1944. Late in World War ll he planned and directed Operation LUSTY (Luftwaffe Secret Technology) and after the War, he founded and was Director of the Air Documents Research Center, now the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). From 1946 to 1949 he was Chief of Intelligence, Air Material Command, Wright Field, now the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), where during the early cold war period he was co-founder of the first technical intelligence means of collecting information about Soviet air, missile and atomic weapon programs. Later, from 1951 to 1954, he organized and was Director of the Physical Security Equipment Agency (PSEA), Department of Defense (DoD) which developed the first electronic ID Badge for the Pentagon and the DoD. Colonel McCoy retired in 1954 and consulted in the fields of information retrieval and technology transfer. His decorations include the Legion of Merit and the Bronze Star.
∼USMA Class of 1930. Cullum No. 8818.
∼USMA Class of 1930. Cullum No. 8818.
Colonel, US Air Force. Graduated USMA 1930. Army Air Corps pilot from 1930 to 1934 with detached service as an air mail pilot during the Air Mail Emergency of 1934. Chief of the Propeller Laboratory, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio from 1939 to 1944. Late in World War ll he planned and directed Operation LUSTY (Luftwaffe Secret Technology) and after the War, he founded and was Director of the Air Documents Research Center, now the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). From 1946 to 1949 he was Chief of Intelligence, Air Material Command, Wright Field, now the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), where during the early cold war period he was co-founder of the first technical intelligence means of collecting information about Soviet air, missile and atomic weapon programs. Later, from 1951 to 1954, he organized and was Director of the Physical Security Equipment Agency (PSEA), Department of Defense (DoD) which developed the first electronic ID Badge for the Pentagon and the DoD. Colonel McCoy retired in 1954 and consulted in the fields of information retrieval and technology transfer. His decorations include the Legion of Merit and the Bronze Star.
∼USMA Class of 1930. Cullum No. 8818.
∼USMA Class of 1930. Cullum No. 8818.
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