Systems Engineering Seminar
NASA/Navy cooperation including:
NNBE activities and PBMA-KMS functional support to program and project managers
Presented by:
Capt. (Select) Steve Iwanowicz/ NAVSEA 07 NAVSEA SUBSAFE Program Director
Henry N. Hartt, ARES Corporation
Don Vecellio, ARES Corporation
April 5, 2005, 1:00 p.m.
Building 3 Auditorium
Abstract:
NASA/Navy cooperation including: NNBE activities and PBMA-KMS functional support to program and project managers
After a dramatic multimedia opening to his presentation, Captain Stephen Iwanowicz from the US Navy's SUBSAFE program will be talking about the Navy's successful safety program for submarines and how that program has partnered with NASA in the NASA Navy Benchmarking Exchange (NNBE). NNBE is a joint effort for NASA to capitalize on the Navy's past efforts and lessons learned and similarly for the Navy to capitalize on NASA's past effort and lessons learned.
Captain Iwanowicz will be followed by Mr. Henry Hartt, speaking about the NASA Navy Benchmarking Exchange from the NASA perspective. Mr. Hart will then talk give an introduction to the NASA's Process Based Mission Assurance (PBMA) Knowledge Management System (KMS).
Capt. (Select) Stephen Iwanowicz is co-Navy Chair of the NNBE and is the current Navy Director of the US Navy’s SUBSAFE Program/Naval Sea Systems Command/ Undersea Warfare, established after the Thresher submarine accident in 1963.
Mr. Hartt and Mr. Vecellio of ARES Corporation are the NNBE Support Contractor Executive Directors of the NNBE and support the HQ Office of Safety and Mission Assurance in development and use of the PBMA-KMS.
Biography:
Following his 1983 commission as an Ensign from Officer Candidate School in Newport, RI and subsequent training at Submarine School in Groton CT, CAPT(s) Iwanowicz was assigned to ballistic missile submarine USS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN where, during the height of the Cold War, he completed three strategic deterrent patrols and formally qualified in submarines, earning his gold dolphin warfare insignia.
In 1986, he converted from a Submarine Officer to an Engineering Duty Officer
In 1989, he began full-time graduate studies at MIT where he earned masters degrees in both Naval Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, formally completing his Engineering Duty Officer Qualification Program.
Following graduation in 1992, CAPT(s) Iwanowicz transferred to Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine. He subsequently served with the Board of Inspection and Survey in Norfolk, Virginia.
Since the fall of 2003, CAPT(s) Iwanowicz currently serves as the Director of Submarine Safety and Quality Assurance Programs, NAVSEA 07Q, at the Washington Navy Yard, DC.