US Air Force Lieutenant General. He rose in rank to become the Director of the National Security Agency. Following his graduation from Central High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania he briefly attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York until he was accepted to the US Military Academy at West Point, New York and graduated in 1950 with a Bachelor of Science Degree and a commission as a 2nd lieutenant. He then attended flight training at Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas and Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma and received his pilot wings in August 1951. After completing B-29 Superfortress bomber training at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas in January 1952, he was assigned to the 308th Bombardment Wing at Forbes Air Force Base (now Forbes Field Air National Guard Base), Kansas. Following an assignment to Hunter Air Force Base (now Hunter Army Airfield), Georgia he was assigned to Yokota Air Base, Japan from April 1953 until September 1955 where he flew WB-29 aircraft for the 56th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron. In May 1956 he returned to Forbes Air Force Base as commander of the 320th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron and two years later he was assigned to the 90th Strategic Reconnaissance wing as head of the Training Procedures Section. In August 1959 he transferred to the missile and space field after being assigned to Headquarters, 2nd Air Force at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana where he worked with the Atlas, Titan, and Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles. From June 1963 until July 1964 he was a student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he graduated with a Master's Degree from the Engineer Management Program and was then assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington DC as a technical intelligence officer with the Directorate of Scientific and Technical Intelligence and later as Chief, Space Systems Division, in the Missiles and Space Office. In July 1967 he attended the National War College at Fort McNair, Washington DC and following his graduation in July 1968 he was assigned to the 14th Aerospace Force at Ent Air Force Base, Colorado (now closed) as the Director of Current Operations. From August 1969 until September 1970 he was the commander of the 16th Surveillance Squadron at Shemya Air Force Base (now Eareckson Air Station), Alaska and followed that assignment as the commander of the 71st Missile Warning Wing at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey. In July 1971 he was assigned to the US Southern Command as the Intelligence Director and two years later he transferred to Headquarters US Air Force in Washington DC as the deputy assistant chief of staff for intelligence. In May 1974 he returned to the Defense Intelligence Agency as the deputy director for intelligence and in July 1976 became vice director for production. The following year he was assigned to the US European Command at Vaihingen, Germany as the Director of Intelligence. In September 1979 he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general and served as the Deputy Chairman of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Military Committee in Brussels, Belgium. In April 1981 he returned to the US and was selected to become the Director of the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland and he retired in this position in April 1985 with 35 years of continuous military service. Among his military awards and decorations include the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal, the Defense Superior Service Medal (with one oak leaf cluster), the Legion of Merit, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Joint Service Commendation Medal (with one oak leaf cluster), the Air Force Commendation Medal (with one oak leaf cluster), and the National Defense Service Medal. He was also awarded the National Intelligence Medal of Achievement in 1985 by US President Ronald Reagan. Following his military retirement, he served as president of the Corporation for Open Systems from 1986 until 1991 and later served as Chairman of the Association for Intelligence Officers, as well as serving on the Board of Directors for Aegis Research Corporation and the National Cryptologic Museum Foundation. He died in McLean, Virginia at the age of 86.