Whiz Kids (Department of Defense)
Whiz Kids was a name given to a group of experts from
PPBS). They were called the Whiz Kids recalling the group at Ford Motor Company
that McNamara was part of a decade earlier. The group included (among others):
- Harold Brown
- Alain Enthoven
- Steven Fenster
- Patrick Gross
- William Kaufmann
- Jan Lodal
- Howard Margolis
- Frank Nicolai
- Merton Joseph Peck
- Charles O. Rossotti
- Henry Rowen
- John H. Rubel
- Willis H. Sargent
- Ivan Selin
- Pierre Sprey
- David Staiger
- Adam Yarmolinsky
- Richard Zeckhauser
- Thomas Nicholson
- John M. Deutch
References
Further reading
- Kaplan, Fred. The Wizards of Armageddon. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983.