TechEnterprise 2005

Gary Godshalk

Gary is the General Manager of Lockheed Martin ORINCON Hawaii, a wholly owned high-technology engineering services subsidiary of the Lockheed Martin Corporation, located in Kailua, Oahu, Hawaii.  Gary has been with the ORINCON Corporation since 1987, beginning as a Program Manager in the field of ocean surveillance, focusing on low frequency active acoustic systems development.  Gary is an expert in the areas of antisubmarine warfare (ASW) and signal processing. In this capacity, Gary has traveled throughout the world, participating in many at-sea experiments, which resulted in measurable improvements in U.S. Navy surveillance systems. His project leadership and technical performance have contributed to the development of landmark system evolutions, including the Low Frequency Active (LFA) system, SURTASS, A-RCI, and advanced coherent Inter-Array Processing (IAP) applied to worldwide ocean surveillance.

Prior to joining ORINCON, Gary led a team of 40 software engineers at Cubic Corporation in developing simulation systems, most notably a digital radar landmass simulator for the B1 Bomber. He was responsible for structured, top-down design, implementation, and system-level testing of a complex, multi-computer, multi-task software system that comprised multiple code levels, including high level, assembly, and microcode.  He was the primary leader in all phases of RSS development, successfully meeting system requirements via a rigorous Mil-Spec development process, including creation and maintenance of the crucial Top Level and Detailed Design Documents.

Gary’s career began at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, Maryland as a research physicist. He designed and conducted the first U.S. acoustic tracking range experiments that analyzed turbulence behind submerged nuclear submarines. The technical reports from this research formed the foundation for the Navy’s present submarine wake tracking system. Gary was a key member of a team that conducted at-sea, self-noise measurements of the Wide Aperture Array aboard a nuclear submarine.  These measurements, and the subsequent redesign they spawned, determined the final configuration of the Fleet’s passive submarine array system. Gary also conducted a theoretical study of the molecular structure of liquid metals.  This work resulted in a Monte Carlo software routine that is still in use to determine thermodynamic properties of nuclear reactor coolants. 

 In 1975, Gary joined ENSCO, Inc., a small business research and development company headquartered in Springfield, Virginia.  He was immediately chosen to lead a team of engineers in the production of the Navy’s Interarray Processing System in Eureka, CA.  When this development was completed, he managed the ENSCO Sunnyvale, CA office.  At this site, Gary’s team developed advanced ASW systems in support of the Acoustic Research Center (ARC), a national laboratory located at Moffett Field, CA. Gary relocated to San Diego as the ARC transitioned to Naval Ocean Systems Center, Point Loma, until he was offered the position of Chief Project Engineer at Cubic Corporation.

Gary received his B.S. degree in physics from the University of Maryland, College Park.  He continued with graduate studies at University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Ph.D. studies at University of Maryland.  Throughout his career, Gary has presented numerous scientific papers at national and international symposia, and has several published articles in scientific journals.