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Published writings:

Financial statement:

List the titles, publishers and dates of any books, articles, or reports you have written.
Please see attached list.

1. Attach a copy of your Executive Personnel Financial Disclosure Report (SF 278).

2. List sources, amounts and dates of all anticipated receipts from deferred income arrangements, stock options, uncompleted contracts and other future benefits which you expect to derive from previous business relationships, professional services and firm memberships or from former employers, clients, and customers. Amounts should be indicated by the categories established for reporting income on Form SF 278, Schedule A.

American Science & Engineering, Inc., Stock options, value range $100,001

$250,000.

Additional questions:

1. Will you sever all connections with your present employer, business firm, association or organization if you are confirmed by the Senate?

I will take leave of absence from the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology

Additional questions - Continued

2. Do you have any plans after completing government service to resume employment, affiliation or practice with your current or any previous employer, business firm, association or organization?

I plan to return to MIT as Professor of Physics.

3. Has a commitment for employment after you leave government been made to you by anyone? Have you made any such commitment?

I will be on leave from MIT, where I am a tenured Professor.

4. (a) If you have been appointed for a fixed term, do you expect to serve the full term?

I intend to serve to the end of this Administration.

(b) If you have been appointed for an indefinite term, are there any known limitations on your willingness or ability to serve for the foreseeable future?

5. Are you currently a party to any legal action? If so, describe its nature and status.
No.

6. Have you ever declared bankruptcy? If so, describe the circumstances.

No.

7. Have you filed a Federal income tax return for each of the last 10 years? If not, please explain.

Yes

8. Has the Internal Revenue Service ever audited your Federal tax return? If so, what resulted from the audit?

No

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9. Have you ever been investigated, arrested, charged or held by any Federal, State or other law enforcement authority for violation of any Federal, State, county or municipal law, regulation, or ordinance, other than a minor traffic offense? If so, please explain.

No

10. Have you ever been convicted (including a plea of guilty or nolo contendre) of any criminal violation other than a minor traffic offense?

No

11. Have you ever been disciplined or cited for a breach of ethics for unprofessional conduct by, or been the subject of a complaint to any court, administrative agency, professional association, disciplinary committee, or other professional group? If so, provide details.

A lawsuit was brought against me in 1993 in my

capacity as a Director of AS&E. The lawsuit
was dismissed. (See attached).

12. Have you or your spouse ever represented in any capacity (e.g.. employee, attorney.
business, or political adviser or consultant), with or without compensation, a foreign
government or an entity controlled by a foreign government? If so, please fully describe
such relationship.

NO

13. If you or your spouse have ever been formally associated with a law, accounting, public relations firm or other service organization, have any of your or your spouse's associates represented, in any capacity, with or without compensation, a foreign government or an entity controlled by a foreign government? If so, please fully describe such relationship.

No

14. During the past 10 years, have you or your spouse received any compensation from, or been involved in any financial or business transactions with, a foreign government or an entity controlled by a foreign government? If so, please furnish details.

No

11.

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In August 1993, a lawsuit was brought against me in my capacity as a Director of
American Science and Engineering, Inc. by Martin Annis, the former CEO of AS&E.
The suit, which was also brought against AS&E and its other Directors and officers,
alleged breach of contract and wrongful termination. The claims against me individually
were voluntanly dismissed with prejudice in April 1995, and the jury held in favor of the
company in April 1995. The case is "Martin Annis, Plaintiff vs. Amencan Science and
Engineering, Inc., et al. Defendants," Middlesex County Superior Court, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, Civil Action No 93-4899.

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15. Have you or your spouse ever registered under the Foreign Agent Registration Act? If so, please furnish details.

No

16. Were all your taxes (Federal, State, and local) current (filed and paid) as of the date of your nomination hearing? If not, please explain.

Yes

17. Have all your Federal, State, and local taxes always been paid on time? If not, please explain.

Yes

18. If confirmed, are there any known limitations on your willingness or ability to serve for your full term or until the next Presidential election, whichever is applicable?

No

19. Please advise the Committee of any additional information, favorable or unfavorable. which you think the Committee would want to be aware of in considering your nomi

N/A

nation.

20. If you are a partner in a law firm or other organization, provide the Committee with a list of all clients which you have personally represented, and all clients the firm has represented within the past 5 years and a bref description of the nature of the representation. If you wish the list to be kept confidential so indicate.

N/A

21. List any investments, obligations, liabilities, or other relationships which might involve potential conflicts of interest with the position to which you have been nominated. See attached statement of the Department of Energy's Designated Agency Ethics Official.

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22. Describe any business relationship, dealing or financial transaction (other than taxpaying) that you have had during the last 10 years with the Federal Government, whether for yourself or relatives, on behalf of a client, or acting as an agent, which might in any way constitute or result in a possible conflict of interest with the position to which you have been nominated.

None

23. Describe any lobbying activity which you have performed during the past 10 years with respect to legislative or administrative actions at the Federal, State or local level.

None

24. Have you been informed of the conflict of interest laws and regulations applicable to the position to which you have been nominated?

Yes

25. Explain how you will resolve any potential conflict of interest that may be disclosed by your responses to this form and the attachments thereto. Attach a statement of the appropriate agency ethics official explaining the applicable laws or regulations, any potential conflicts, and the action required to resolve such conflicts.

I will abide by the advice of the Designated Agency

Ethics Official.

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