Whitman, Edward

Edward Whitman tudied electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later earned a PhD in that field from the University of Maryland. During his 40-year Navy civilian career, Dr. Whitman held senior management positions in various Navy and Department of Defense organizations, including the Sixth Fleet, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the Office of the Secretary of the Navy. After retiring from the Department of the Navy in 1998, Dr. Whitman served as the senior editor of the magazine "Undersea Warfare" for several years.