At 66 and newly retired as executive vice president for Washington operations for the TRW Corporation, he was ready for a new phase.
The Northrop Grumman Corporation announced an unsolicited $5.9 billion stock offer for the TRW Corporation in the hope of becoming the nation's leading satellite and missile contractor.
In 1958, their company merged with its financial backer, Thompson Products, to create the TRW Corporation.
His accusations are based partly on antimissile criticism by Nira Schwartz, a former senior engineer at the TRW Corporation, a top military contractor.
His father was a senior vice president for information technology at TRW Corporation, the military contractor in Cleveland.
Honeywell International, after a search of several months, said yesterday that it had hired David M. Cote, 49, chairman of the TRW Corporation, as its chief executive, effective immediately.
His father retired as a director of international affairs, in Washington, at the TRW Corporation, a defense contractor.
S-TEC has teamed with TRW Corporation in the US and IAI of Israel to sell UAVs on the international market.
The monitoring equipment that had been airlifted to Johnston Atoll from the TRW Corporation at Redondo Beach, California, was immediately installed.
Following his service at Nuremberg, King had a long career as counsel for several corporations, including the TRW Corporation, from which he retired in 1981.