Gansler, Jacques S.

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Name (Latin)
Gansler, Jacques S.
Other forms of name
Gansler, Jack, -2018
Date of birth
1934-11-21
Date of death
2018-12-04
Field of activity
Defense industries
Government purchasing
Military policy
Occupation
College teachers
Executives
Public officers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
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Other Identifiers

VIAF: 34524533
Wikidata: Q111333987
Library of congress: n 80081346
HAI10: 000111025
Sources of Information
  • Washington post WWW site, viewed Dec. 31, 2018(Jacques "Jack" Gansler, 84, a defense contracting executive who served as undersecretary of defense for acquisition--the Pentagon's chief weapons buyer--from 1997 to 2001, died Dec. 4 [2018] at his home in McLean, Va. Dr. Gansler was born in Newark and held top management positions at Singer, Raytheon, ITT and eventually Analytic Sciences Corp. At his death, he was a University of Maryland public policy professor emeritus. In the mid-2000s, he led a panel examining the Army's contracting system and ways to prevent fraud, waste and abuse. He was a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and wrote several books about the defense industry)
  • His The defense industry, 1980:t.p. (Jacques S. Gansler)
  • Integrating commercial and military technologies for national strength, 1991:CIP t.p. (Jacques Gansler)