March 20: Insight Session with Dr. Starnes Walker, Chief Technology Officer, U.S. Navy Cyber Command
The Coalition welcomes Dr. Starnes Walker, the Chief Technology Officer & Technical Director of the U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. 10th Fleet of the U.S. Navy, to its Insight Session on March 20.
About Dr. Starnes Walker
Dr. Walker now serves as the Chief Technology Officer & Technical Director for the U.S. Fleet Cyber Command & U.S. 10th Fleet, U.S. Navy. Dr. Walker’s last post was serving as the Chief Engineering and Technical Director of The University of Hawaii System.
Previously Under Secretary of Science and Technology Jay Cohen (RADM-Ret) recruited Dr. Starnes E. Walker from the Office of Naval Research to be the new Director of Research for the S&T Directorate at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Formerly the Chief of Naval Research, Secretary Cohen previously worked with Walker, who served as Technical Director and Chief Scientist and top civilian for the Naval S&T program. As Director of Research for DHS, Walker oversaw the Office of National Laboratories, the Office of University Programs for the DHS Centers of Excellence, the four DHS in-house laboratories and T&E Centers, and the Academic Fellowship and Scholarship Program Office. Additionally Walker served as the senior S&T leadership representative to OSTP, the Congress, the IC, and OGOs internationally. He joined the S&T Directorate in January, 2007.
Dr. Walker joined the Office of Naval Research in September 2004 and served as the Technical Director and Chief Scientist reporting directly to the Chief of Naval Research. Working with the CNR, Dr. Walker was responsible for structuring and leading an S&T organization that ensures technological superiority for the Navy and Marine Corps. Dr. Walker’s budget authority was annually $2,200M, plus an additional average Congressional plus-up of $700M, and Dr. Walker served in a supervisory role for a workforce of 5494 civilian and military for ONR and ONR’s Corporate Laboratory, the Naval Research Laboratory. Dr. Walker’s leadership spanned the university community, the government laboratory structure, industry, and international government defense organizations to bring their resources and technical capabilities into the Naval S&T program, thereby ensuring strategic Naval capabilities to the future and avoiding technological surprise for the nation.
Dr. Walker’s previous position was as the Acting Associate Laboratory Director for National Security, serving as the National Security Coordinator at Argonne National Laboratory. Most recently, Dr. Walker served on the DoD’s Defense Science Board in the Summer Study to define Future Strategic Strike Systems with STRATCOM as the COCOM sponsor.
Dr. Walker is a former member of the Senior Executive Service and served as the Senior Advisor for Science & Technology to stand up the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) from 1999-2003. Dr. Walker was a standing member of the Defense Science & Technology Advisory Group for DDR&E in OSD and served as the senior S&T executive at OSD along with the S&T Executives of the Services, DIA, DARPA, MDA, and the Deputy Under Secretary for S&T.
