Sean Stackley
{{Short description|American engineer & military officer (born 1957)}}
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|name = Sean Stackley
|image = Sean J. Stackley 2017 portrait (3x4 cropped).jpg
|caption = Official portrait, 2017
|office = Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition
|president = George W. Bush
Barack Obama
Donald Trump
|term_start = July 28, 2008
|term_end = August 3, 2017
|predecessor = John S. Thackrah
|successor = James Geurts
|office1 = Acting United States Secretary of the Navy
|president1 = Donald Trump
|deputy1 = Thomas W. Hicks (acting)
Thomas P. Dee (acting)
|term_start1 = January 20, 2017
|term_end1 = August 3, 2017
|predecessor1 = Ray Mabus
|successor1 = Richard V. Spencer
|birth_name = Sean Gerard Joseph Stackley
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|8|7}}
|birth_place = Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
|death_date =
|death_place =
|spouse = Teresa Mullin
|education = United States Naval Academy (BS)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS)
|allegiance = {{flagu|United States}}
|branch = {{flag|United States Navy}}
|serviceyears = 1979–2005
|rank = {{Dodseal|USNO6}} Captain
|mawards = {{unbulleted list
|{{flagicon image|Legion_of_Merit_ribbon.svg}} Legion of Merit (two awards)
|{{flagicon image|Meritorious_Service_Medal_ribbon.svg}} Meritorious Service Medal
|{{flagicon image|Navy_and_Marine_Corps_Commendation_Medal_ribbon.svg}} Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal
|{{flagicon image|Navy_and_Marine_Corps_Achievement_Medal_ribbon.svg}} Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal}}
}}
Sean Gerard Joseph Stackley (born August 7, 1957) is an American engineer and former naval officer who served as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition from July 2008 to August 3, 2017. He also served as the acting Secretary of the Navy from January 20 to August 3, 2017. As of September 2018, he is SVP and President, Communications & Networked Systems Segment at L-3 Technologies.
Early career
Prior to his appointment to ASN (RDA), Stackley served as a professional staff member of the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services. During his tenure with the committee, he was responsible for overseeing Navy and Marine Corps programs, U.S. Transportation Command matters and related policy for the Seapower Subcommittee. He also advised on Navy and Marine Corps operations and maintenance, science and technology and acquisition policy.
=United States Navy career=
Stackley began his U.S. Navy career as a Surface Warfare Officer (SWO), serving in engineering and combat systems assignments aboard U.S.S. John Young (DD-973). Upon completing his warfare qualifications as a SWO, he transferred from the Unrestricted Line to the Restricted Line and was designated as an Engineering Duty Officer (EDO), serving in a series of industrial, fleet, program office and headquarters assignments in ship design and construction, maintenance, logistics and acquisition policy.
From 2001 to 2005, Stackley served as the Navy's LPD 17 program manager, with responsibility for all aspects of procurement for this major ship program. Having served earlier in his career as production officer for the U.S.S. Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) class and project Naval architect overseeing structural design for the Canadian Patrol Frigate, HMCS Halifax (FFH 330), he had the unique experience of having performed a principal role in the design, construction, test and delivery of three first-of-class warships.{{cite report |date=2008 |title=Nominations Before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Second Session, 110th Congress |url=https://www.congress.gov/110/chrg/shrg46092/CHRG-110shrg46092.pdf |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |docket=S. HRG. 110–666 |accessdate=July 29, 2019}}
Stackley was commissioned and graduated with distinction from the United States Naval Academy in 1979, with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. He holds the degrees of Ocean Engineer and Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Stackley earned certification as professional engineer, Commonwealth of Virginia, in 1994.{{cite web|url=http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=477|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081003194831/http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=477|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 3, 2008|title=The Honorable Sean J. Stackley|date=20 January 2017|publisher=United States Navy|accessdate=26 January 2017}} {{PD-notice}}
Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition
File:SeanStackleyMLP2ChristeningFeb2014.JPG in February 2014]]
On May 6, 2009, Stackley said at a Sea-Air-Space Exposition luncheon that the Navy would stress continuity and affordability in acquisition.{{cite web|url=http://www.seaairspace.org/SEAPOWER-Expo-Online/Stackley_002.htm|title=Stackley: Continuity, Not Quick Fixes, for Procurement|accessdate=30 June 2017|archive-date=28 October 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091028102429/http://www.seaairspace.org/SEAPOWER-Expo-Online/Stackley_002.htm|url-status=dead}}
On May 15, 2009, Stackley defended the progress on the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System and supported longer terms for program managers.{{cite web|url=http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=4093299&c=SEA&s=TOP|title=Defense News|website=Defense News|accessdate=30 June 2017}}{{dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
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