H. Tyler Marcy
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H. Tyler "Ty" Marcy (September 14, 1918 – September 19, 2014) was an
Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research and Development)
from 1974 to 1977.
Biography
Early life
Ty Marcy was born in 1918 in
air defense
systems.
Career
In 1951, Marcy left M. W. Kellogg for
peripheral devices. In 1956, Marcy became Assistant Manager of Product Development at IBM's Corporate Headquarters in New York City. The next year he moved to Poughkeepsie, New York, as manager of the IBM laboratory there. In 1965, he became vice-president of IBM's General Products Division; in 1967, vice-president of the Systems Development Division; and, in 1968, Director of Technology at IBM's Corporate Headquarters in Armonk, New York
.
Marcy left IBM in 1972 to do work as a consultant in the areas of engineering management, technology, and program review.
In 1974,
Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research and Development)
and he subsequently held this office from October 15, 1974, until April 4, 1977.
Marcy was made a life fellow of the
Instrument Society of America from 1971 to 1974. On September 19, 2014, Marcy died at the age of 96 in Brewster, Massachusetts.[2]
References
- ^ "IEEE Membership Directory". 2001.
- ^ [1] Archived 2014-10-11 at the Wayback Machine
Sources
- H. Tyler Marcy, "Banquet Address: 'Built-in' Combat Readiness—An Approach to Future Ship Designs," Naval Engineers Journal, Volume 88 Issue 3 (Mar. 18, 2009), p. 40
- IEEE citation
