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 NEWS  Federal  Communications  Commission  445  12  th  Street,  S.  W.  Washington,  D.  C.  20554  This  is  an  unofficial  announcement  of  Commission  action.  Release  of  the  full  text  of  a  Commission  order  constitutes  official  action.  See  MCI  v.  FCC.  515  F  2d  385  (D.  C.  Circ  1974).  News  Media  Information  202  /  418-  0500  Internet:  http://  www.  fcc.  gov  TTY:  1-  888-  835-  5322 
 FOR  IMMEDIATE  RELEASE  NEWS  MEDIA  CONTACT:  August  5,  2005  Daniel  Gonzalez  at  (202)  418-  1000 
 CHAIRMAN  KEVIN  J.  MARTIN  ANNOUNCES  THE  ACTING  CHIEF  OF  THE  OFFICE  OF  ENGINEERING  AND  TECHNOLOGY  AND  THE  CHIEF  ECONOMIST 
 Today,  Federal  Communications  Commission  Chairman  Kevin  J.  Martin  named  Bruce  Franca  as  Acting  Chief  of  the  Office  of  Engineering  and  Technology  and  Leslie  Marx  as  Chief  Economist. 
 Bruce  Franca  has  served  as  Deputy  Chief  of  the  Office  of  Engineering  and  Technology  since  1987.  Mr.  Franca  joined  the  Commission  in  1974  as  an  engineer  in  the  Aviation  and  Marine 
 Division  of  the  former  Safety  and  Special  Radio  Services  Bureau.  He  has  also  held  positions  in  the  Office  of  Plans  and  Policy  and  the  Mass  Media  Bureau.  Before  joining  the  Commission,  Mr. 
 Franca  worked  for  the  Naval  Ship  Research  and  Development  Center  in  Annapolis,  Maryland;  the  Naval  Electronics  Laboratory  Center  in  San  Diego,  California;  and  the  Naval  Applied 
 Science  Laboratory  in  Brooklyn,  New  York.  He  is  a  graduate  of  Pratt  Institute  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  and  has  done  graduate  work  in  electrical  engineering  at  the  George  Washington 
 University. 
 Leslie  Marx  joins  the  Commission  under  an  Intergovernmental  Personnel  Act  assignment  from  Duke  University,  where  she  serves  as  an  Associate  Professor  of  Economics  at  the  Fuqua  School 
 of  Business.  Prior  to  joining  Duke  University,  she  was  a  professor  at  the  Simon  School  of  Business  at  the  University  of  Rochester.  Ms.  Marx  graduated  as  valedictorian  from  Duke 
 University  and  received  her  PhD  in  Economics  from  Northwestern  University. 
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