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Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport recently announced the selection of Mary Sylvia as technology partnership officer in the Technology Partnerships Office (TPO).
As technology partnership officer, Sylvia serves as the senior advisor to Dr. Vittorio Ricci, NUWC Newport’s chief technology officer, on matters relating to strategic collaborations and technology-related business decisions. In this position, she heads the TPO, which is responsible for enhancing the transfer of NUWC Newport technology. Her duties include identifying current and emerging technologies available from external sources that will enhance the Division's current technology base and leading the effort to develop policies and procedures that improve the Division's sharing and, when appropriate, licensing of intellectual property and technology in fulfilling its mission.
Sylvia, of North Kingstown, R.I., has been serving as director, Strategy Implementation for the Undersea Warfare Weapons, Vehicles, and Defensive Systems Department, and as the director of Division Newport’s Advanced Naval Technology Exercise for 2018. Prior to this assignment, she served in various leadership and management roles for NUWC Newport, including as manager of the Division's Strategic Management Information Center, as an internal communications coordinator, and finally as the technology transfer coordinator in the former Technology Partnership Enterprise Office. In 2010, she became a technical program manager for the Autonomous and Defensive Systems Department.
Sylvia began her 35-year career for the U.S. Navy after graduating from Southeastern Massachusetts University (now, UMass Dartmouth) with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics. When hired by NUWC, she worked in combat systems, increasing her duties from software tester, to assistant test director, and to test director of increasingly complex combat control systems. Sylvia went on to serve as assistant science advisor at Commander, Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and then as software verification and validation scientist at the Naval Ocean Systems Center, now SPAWAR Pacific, in San Diego, Calif. In 1991, she returned to NUWC as surface platform and campaign analyst for the Undersea Warfare Analysis Department.
Sylvia holds certificates in teaming and facilitation and attained a master’s degree in business communications with a concentration in leadership and influence at Jones International University in Centennial, Colo.
She replaces Dr. Theresa Baus, who had who served as technology partnership officer from 1999 until her retirement in November.
NUWC Division Newport, part of NAVSEA, is one of two divisions of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center. NUWC Division Newport’s mission is to provide research, development, test and evaluation, engineering and fleet support for submarines, autonomous underwater systems, undersea offensive and defensive weapons systems, and countermeasures. NUWC’s other division is located in Keyport, Wash.
| Date Taken: | 02.15.2018 |
| Date Posted: | 02.15.2018 16:16 |
| Story ID: | 266210 |
| Location: | NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, US |
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