http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/20/us/henry-s-rowen-professor-economist-and-ex-president-of-rand-dies-at-90.html
Mr. Rowen left RAND to study economics at Oxford but returned after earning a master’s degree in 1955 and continued writing on issues ranging from nuclear strategy and international security to the emerging economies of Asia. He helped develop RAND’s Planning-Programming-Budgeting System, which sought to improve decision making by combining systems analysis with budgeting abilities. It grew out of a RAND analysis of the relative costs and benefits of the B-52 and B-70 bombers.He joined President John F. Kennedy’s administration in 1961 as deputy assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs. Working under the Cold War strategist Paul Nitze, Mr. Rowen helped develop the policy known as “flexible response,” an alternative to the Eisenhower-era policy of massive nuclear retaliation to defend NATO allies. In 1965, he was named assistant director of the Bureau of the Budget, where he promoted the RAND planning and budget system. President Lyndon B. Johnson went on to order all federal agencies to use it. [snip]
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