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Gary Wang
Chief Information Officer
Corporate Operations Lead
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command

Gary Wang, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is SPAWAR’s Director of Corporate Operations and Chief Information Officer. He is responsible for developing and implementing a corporate information technology strategy to provide an end-to-end operational capability for more than 12,000 employees across a worldwide organization. His responsibilities include network management, information assurance, application management, data and knowledge management and information technology policy for SPAWAR.

Wang formerly served as SPAWAR’s Science and Technology national competency lead and the Chief Technology office for Space and Warfare System Command. As director of the Science, Technology and Engineering Department at SPAWAR System Center Pacific, his responsibilities included coordination of scientific and technical programs for the center, and the technical authority in directing the formulation of future technical alternatives to satisfy military requirements and the transition of technology into Naval capabilities for the fleet.

Wang began his federal career in 1983 at Naval Underwater Systems Center as a project engineer on the MK-48 Advanced Capability torpedo program. From 1988 to 2004, he served in several managerial positions at SPAWAR. From 2004-2005, he was program manager for Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance and Information Operations, responsible for development and acquisition of Navy cryptologic, meteorological, operational effects, and intelligence software programs. As Chief Information Office program manager from 1998-2001, his responsibilities included information technology infrastructure, policy and information assurance. He was program manager for Naval Electronic Combat Surveillance Systems from 2001 to 2004 and assistant program manager for Combat Direction Finding; division director for Technology Transition from 1990-1998. Prior to that, he served as test, evaluation and software manager for signals intelligence programs.

Wang earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1983. Wang has also earned two Special Act Awards and two Navy Superior Civilian Service Awards.