COL (Ret) Jean Reed
Colonel Jean D. Reed, US Army (Retired), a Distinguished Military Graduate of the University of Oklahoma ROTC program, received his BS in Physics (with Distinction) in June 1960 and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant, Regular Army in the Field Artillery. On excess leave without pay, he continued graduate studies at OU and was awarded a MS degree in 1963.
COL Reed’s 30-year military career encompassed a succession of command, staff, and research and development assignments, including field artillery battery and battalion command, command of a major Army research, development, and engineering laboratory, and two combat tours in Vietnam as an advisor and as a brigade operations and intelligence officer. Later, COL Reed served as a program manager in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), as deputy commander of VII Corps Artillery in Germany, and two tours on the Army General Staff.
Following his retirement from active duty in August 1990, Mr. Reed served for 15 years as a professional staff member of the Committee on the Armed Services in the US House of Representatives. In 2005, Mr. Reed was appointed to the Senior Executive Service as the Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense in the Office of the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear and Chemical and Biological Matters. He served in this role for four and one-half years, for which he was awarded the Defense Exceptional Civilian Service Medal.