CenGen Names Steve Durbano As Lead Engineer for ONR Secure Wireless Network Connectivity

April 30, 2002 – CenGen named Steve Durbano as the Lead Engineer for the Office of Naval Research’s (ONR Littoral Combat (LC) Future Naval Capability (FNC) Program Office to secure wireless connectivity for the Navy and Marine Corps. Durbano was previously the Lead System Control Engineer for the ONR Extending the Littoral Battlespace ACTD.

Durbano comes to the project with more than 14 years of network design, implementation and management as well as specific experience in wireless networking using 802.11 and military wireless systems (RT-1812 and VRC-99A).

As the Lead Control Engineer for the ONR ELB ACTD, Durbano’s responsibilities included network design, network management, network monitoring and data acquisition and analysis for a wired/wireless network supporting sensors, command and control and remote fires. He was also responsible for the design, implementation and monitoring of wired/wireless networks involving various routing protocols (EIGRP, IGRP, OSPF), switched networks, network security, NTP, Dynamic DNS/DHCP, Local Area Mobility (LAM), Mobile IP and commercial proprietary wireless systems.

Durbano’s previous experience includes:

• Supporting several Systems Integration Tests, two Major System Demonstrations (April 1999, June 2001) and several Limited Objective Experiments (Capable Warrior, LOE-6, Millennium Dragon) involving air, sea and ground units (Marine Corps, Army, Navy, SOF)
  
• Providing systems integration, design and testing of Advanced Combat System Prototype Design for DARPA sponsored Ship Systems Automation (SSA) Project
  
• Developing model requirements and experimental scenarios for the Intermediate Scale Measurement Facility (ISMF), an underwater active acoustic range
  
• Providing technical analysis of shipboard structureborne and radiated noise through development and implementation of computer based shipboard noise modeling and analysis for US Navy new ship designs including SWATH T-AGS (Ocean), T-AG (X) and T-AGOS (SWATH “A”)