The MK54 is the U.S. Navy's primary lightweight anti-submarine torpedo — launched from surface ships, MH-60R helicopters, and P-8A aircraft. Its active/passive acoustic homing section is the sonar "brain" that guides the weapon onto a maneuvering submarine target. As Chief Engineer I led the team responsible for sonar-section production, depot-level testing, and obsolescence management across the fielded inventory.
- MK54
- Active/Passive Sonar
- ASW
- Guidance Section
The U.S. Navy's fiber-optic passive wide-aperture flank array for Virginia-class submarines — hull-mounted panels that convert an adversary's radiated acoustic energy into track data using fiber-optic and laser sensing. I directed the cross-functional acoustic engineering, integration, and test effort across the program.
- Wide Aperture Array
- Virginia-Class
- Passive Sonar
- ASW
A deep-water, bottom-mounted passive sensor array that detects, classifies, and tracks quiet diesel-electric submarines by exploiting the deep-ocean reliable acoustic path — part of the Navy's distributed anti-submarine warfare network. I led the electrical engineering lifecycle: sensor integration, power-distribution architecture, and system-level acceptance testing.
- Passive Sonar
- VLA
- ASW
- Maritime Surveillance
A commercial deepwater AUV for offshore-infrastructure survey and inspection — generates 3-D geo-referenced models of subsea platforms and seabed. I led the electrical architecture, integration, and component-level test of the fleet from Lockheed Martin's Palm Beach facility.
- AUV
- Sonar Suite
- Power Distribution
- Subsea
The highest-performance helicopter dipping sonar fielded by allied navies — long-range submarine detection in both littoral and open-ocean environments. As Chief Engineer I directed cross-functional engineering teams across program execution and customer engagement.
- Dipping Sonar
- ASW
- Transducer R&D
Submarine and surface-ship towed-array sonar systems for long-range detection of quiet diesel-electric and nuclear submarines. Includes the TB-29A and TB-34A programs I directed at L3Harris.
- TB-29A
- TB-34A
- Towed Array
- ASW
A next-generation piezoelectric transducer material — crystallographically textured ceramic that raises sensitivity and power density well beyond conventional PZT for future sonar arrays. I championed the R&D effort, directing PhD-level material scientists to mature the material's performance and refine its manufacturing toward production.
- Piezoelectric
- Transducer Materials
- R&D
- Next-Gen Sonar