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Mr. Ralph M. Vlcek
Vice President, Engineering Services Division
Mr. Vlcek has more than 40 years of management and engineering
experience in defense related programs and technology.
Mr. Vlcek enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1961. After
serving on SS (diesel powered) submarines, he was trained
as a Nuclear Reactor Operator and served on SSBN (Nuclear
Powered Ballistic Missile) and SSN (Nuclear Powered Attack)
submarines. In 1970, after becoming a warrant officer
in electronics, he served as Electronics Repair Officer and
Electronics Material Officer on a destroyer tender (AD),
where he qualified as Surface Warfare Officer (SWO). Additionally,
he served as Director of Prospective Electronic Material
Officer (PEMO) School at Fleet Training Center, Norfolk. In
1975 Mr. Vlcek received a commission as a Limited Duty Officer,
Submarine Nuclear Power. He served as Hull Repair Officer
and Navigator on a submarine tender (AS), Electronics/Sonar
Officer and Assistant Engineer on the staff of Submarine
Squadron TEN and Officer-in-Charge of Mobile Technical Unit
FOUR, providing management and administration of fleet technical
services and training in Non-Propulsion Electronic Systems
(NPES) throughout the eastern seaboard of the United States
and Western Europe.
Following his retirement from the Navy in 1983, Mr. Vlcek
joined Analysis and Technology Technical Services, supporting
the Naval Underwater Systems Center with technical services
in submarine sonar and electronic systems.
In 1985, he received a bachelor’s degree in electronic
engineering and joined Tracor Applied Sciences as Project
Manager for alteration installations, providing management,
supervision and installation engineering and technical services
for installation of R&D and data gathering electronic
and sonar systems aboard submarines, and later as Project
Manager of Communications and ESM Systems providing Ship
Alterations (SHIPALT) design validation and installation
quality assurance at shipyards accomplishing the SHIPALTS.
Mr. Vlcek joined DDL OMNI Engineering, Engineering Services
Division, in 1994 as Program Manager supporting the establishment,
organization, and operation of the U.S. Navy Transducer In-Service
Engineering Agent (ISEA) at Naval Undersea Warfare Center
Detachment, New London. He provided engineering and
technical support for transducer and hydrophone testing,
troubleshooting, failure trend analysis, documentation and
logistics. In 2002, he became Technical Director of
the Engineering Services Division, providing engineering
and technical support to the Naval Undersea Warfare Center,
Naval Surface Warfare Center, and Applied Physics Laboratory
in the areas of acoustics, U.S. Navy Transducer ISEA, tactical
acoustic communications, cryptological engineering, ship
design, and field engineering. Mr. Vlcek was named
Vice President of the Engineering Services Division in 2006
and has continued management support of these programs.
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