Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) has actually called James J. LaCroix business supervisor of its Advanced Technologies Office in Newport, R.I. He will certainly report straight to John J. Donnelly, business vice head of state of sophisticated innovations.
As supervisor of the Advanced Technologies Office, LaCroix is in charge of communication as well as participation with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport Division, as well as with the Naval War College to reinforce HII’s capability to equate ingenious suggestions as well as innovations right into functional abilities. The setting additionally sustains trial and error, workouts as well as analytic initiatives via interior r & d throughout the firm.
“Jim brings more than 35 years of leadership and technical expertise gained at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center,” Donnelly stated. “His extensive experience with unmanned undersea vehicles and torpedo development provides him with a deep understanding of the challenges of integrating unmanned system technologies into the fleet. Jim’s knowledge of our customer and industry will add tremendous strength to our advanced technologies group, and we are very excited to have him join our team.”
LaCroix began his profession at NUWC as an university trainee in 1980. On college graduation in 1983, he approved a full time setting in NUWC’s torpedo division, where he invested a bulk of his profession associated with all stages of the torpedo procurement procedure, consisting of creating procurement as well as legal paperwork as well as the layout, advancement as well as screening of torpedo programs. He additionally invested 3 years as a line manager of the unmanned undersea lorry branch. For the last ten years, he supplied straight assistance to the Navy’s Undersea Weapons Program Office in a selection of torpedo procurement functions.
LaCroix gained bachelor’s as well as master’s levels in electric design from Southeastern Massachusetts University (currently University of Massachusetts Dartmouth).
