NEWPORT, R.I. - Navy Capt. Howard Goldman will relieve Navy
Capt. Todd Cramer as commander of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC)
Division Newport during a change of command ceremony here on Friday, Nov. 14 at
1 p.m.
A naval submariner originally from Baltimore, Md., Goldman is
a 1987 graduate of Rice University in Houston, Texas, with a bachelor of science
degree in mechanical engineering and a 2004 graduate of the U.S. Naval War
College with a master's degree in international security and strategic studies.
He also he served for one year as a national security fellow at Harvard
University's Kennedy School for Government and Public Policy. He received his
commission from the Naval Reserve Officer Training Unit at Rice.
Goldman has served aboard a variety of submarines and
commanded the nuclear powered attack submarine USS Toledo (SSN-769). His shore
assignments have included duty on the Submarine Tactical Development Staff of
the Royal Navy, the staff of Commander Task Force 69 in Naples, Italy, and
command of Naval Submarine Training Center Pacific Pearl Harbor (NSTCP) with
additional duties as commanding officer Naval Submarine Training Center Pacific
(NSTCP) Detachment Guam.
Cramer reported as commander, NUWC Newport in July 2010. He
focused NUWC research, development, test and evaluation efforts on providing the
fleet with services and products that enhance ship and system operational
availability.
Cramer led a diverse workforce of more than 5,000 military,
civilian and contract employees at NUWC Newport, the Navy's premier lab for
design, acquisition and lifecycle support of undersea warfare systems. He led
the deployment of numerous critical advancements in weapons, sensor and launcher
systems to the fleet on-time and on-budget. He championed new capabilities to
secure the Navy's undersea dominance in the future, including the installation
of advanced training simulators; autonomous air and undersea vehicles; and
safely conducted thousands of hours of tactical development scenarios and
hundreds of torpedo firings involving U.S. and allied units.
In addition, Cramer successfully navigated government-ordered
shutdowns and the furlough of more than 2,700 civilian employees while
minimizing the negative impacts on employees, customers and the fleet. He
fostered a culture of dedicated stewardship of scarce resources, allowing NUWC
Newport to implement a complex over-arching resource management system
successfully, while also reducing travel expenditures by more than 27 percent.
His efforts also led to the saving of millions of overhead budget dollars and
exceeding the Secretary of the Navy's energy savings goals years ahead of
schedule.
Following change of command, Cramer will report to the staff,
Submarine Development Squadron TWELVE in Groton, Conn.
NUWC is a shore command of the U.S. Navy within the Naval Sea
Systems Command (NAVSEA) which engineers, builds and supports America's fleet of
ships and combat systems.
As the Navy's premier research, development, test and
evaluation, engineering and fleet support center for submarine warfare systems
and other systems associated with the undersea battle space, NUWC is charged
with meeting the undersea warfare requirements of the twenty-first
century.
NUWC's two divisions in Newport and Keyport, Wash., work
together to fulfill NUWC's mission to operate the Navy's full-spectrum research,
development, test and evaluation, engineering, and fleet support center for
submarines, autonomous underwater systems, and offensive and defensive weapon
systems associated with undersea warfare and related areas of homeland security
and national defense.