Program Executive Officer for Tactical Aircraft - NAVAIR Patuxent River, MD.

The U. S. Navy recently announced that Rear Admiral James B. Godwin, III native of San Antonio, Texas has been assigned as Director, Navy and Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) in Washington DC. Rear Admiral Godwin, a two star flag and 31-year career naval officer, is currently assigned as Program Executive Officer for Tactical Aircraft Programs, Patuxent River, MD.

In his new assignment, Godwin will be responsible for continuing the implementation of one of the most transformational contracting initiatives undertaken by the Department of the Navy. NMCI goal is to deliver a single integrated and coherent department-wide computer network for Navy and Marine Corps shore commands. Godwin will be responsible for the program management of a contract that exceeds $8.8 billion.

Born in Ft. Worth, Texas, Godwin is a 1969 graduate of San Antonio’s Churchill High School. Godwin went on to attend Tulane University on a football scholarship and graduated in 1973 with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering. Upon graduation he was commissioned as an ensign in the Navy. He has flew 2,000 hours each in the retired A-7 Corsair II and the F/A-18 Hornet jet fighters and logged 34 missions during Operation Desert Storm in 1991.

In his current assignment, Rear Admiral Godwin manages a network of aviation research and development programs, which deliver new systems to the U.S. Navy fleet providing our naval aviators with advanced warfare technology.

For more information pertaining to Rear Admiral Godwin, please contact Denise Deon Wilson at 301-481-6263 or at [email protected].

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