The engineering duty officer community provides experienced naval engineers to provide technical advice and leadership [1]. EDO's are involved with the design, acquisition, construction, repair, maintenance, conversion, overhaul, and disposal of ships, submarines, and the systems installed aboard. EDOs are unique to the Navy because they start their careers as URL officers. First, prospective EDOs learn how to operate ships or submarines. Next, all EDOs obtain technical/engineering Master's degrees. Then, as engineering duty officers, they assume technical leadership roles.
Insigniaedit
As line officers of the Navy, EDOs wear an inverted gold star above their rank stripes on both their dress blue uniforms and on their shoulder boards. In virtually all respects, their uniforms are indistinguishable from their Unrestricted Line (URL) counterparts. The two predominant sources of new EDOs are by Lateral Transfer from another URL designator or by choosing to exercise their Engineering Duty Option granted upon commissioning.[2] For active duty URL Officers, a requirement for Lateral Transfer, or for exercising an Engineering Duty Option, is the completion of either Submarine Warfare or Surface Warfare qualification. Therefore, the vast majority of EDOs wear the same Submarine Warfare or Surface Warfare insignia as their URL counterparts.
A small number of EDOs not previously qualified as submarine warfare officers can volunteer for the Engineering Duty Dolphin Program, and by successfully completing it, earn their Submarine Engineering Duty insignia.
Engineering Duty Officer Qualification Insignia
The EDO qualification insignia was approved in June 2017. Taking the same form as other warfare or qualification devices, it is a metal or embroidered chest device worn on the left side primary or secondary position of the uniform. Once qualified, EDOs can wear this insignia according to U.S. Navy uniform regulations (December 22, 2017). Warfare-qualified EDOs have the option of wearing the EDO insignia in the secondary position since warfare devices take precedence over the EDO qualification insignia.
Areas of specializationedit
Current EDOs serve in one of several career fields, including:
The importance of engineering duty officers in United States Navy history is memorialized in a bronzebas-relief by American sculptor Antonio Tobias "Toby" Mendez[3], on the sculpture wall at the United States Navy Memorial in Washington DC, entitled "Engineering Duty Officers – 'Sharpening the Point of the Spear.' " This is one of 26 such reliefs along the southern hemisphere of the Granite Sea at the Navy Memorial, which commemorate events, personnel, and communities of the various sea services.
The breast insignia of the EDO, first issued in January 2018, was spearheaded by Capt. Huan Nguyen, with the support of Rear Adm. Alma Grocki and Rear Adm. Ronald Fritzemeier.[1]
Lieutenant Commander Joseph Weber, USN, co-discoverer of the principles behind the maser and laser; developer of the first gravitational wave detectors (after leaving naval service).
Captain William J. Kastner, USN (ret.), 33 years of service as Naval Engineering Duty Officer and instrumental in developing the modern reserve EDO program.
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, USN, a pioneer of computer programming, Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages
^"Navy Approves New Engineering Duty Officer Qualification Insignia". Naval Sea Systems Command. 15 February 2018. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
External linksedit
Navy Personnel Command: Engineering Duty Officers
Navy Personnel Command: Engineering Duty Officer Community Leadership
January 01, 1970
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This article includes a list of general references but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations November 2021 Learn how and when to remove this message An engineering duty officer EDO is a restricted line officer in the United States Navy involved with the design acquisition construction repair maintenance conversion overhaul and disposal of ships submarines aircraft carriers and the systems installed aboard weapons command and control communications computers As of August 1 2016 there are approximately 835 engineering duty officers on active duty in the U S Navy representing approximately 2 percent of its active duty commissioned officers and approximately 400 engineering duty officers in the Navy Reserve Official logotype of the engineering duty officer community Contents 1 Mission 2 Insignia 3 Areas of specialization 4 History 5 Notable engineering duty officers 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksMission editThe engineering duty officer community provides experienced naval engineers to provide technical advice and leadership 1 EDO s are involved with the design acquisition construction repair maintenance conversion overhaul and disposal of ships submarines and the systems installed aboard EDOs are unique to the Navy because they start their careers as URL officers First prospective EDOs learn how to operate ships or submarines Next all EDOs obtain technical engineering Master s degrees Then as engineering duty officers they assume technical leadership roles Insignia editAs line officers of the Navy EDOs wear an inverted gold star above their rank stripes on both their dress blue uniforms and on their shoulder boards In virtually all respects their uniforms are indistinguishable from their Unrestricted Line URL counterparts The two predominant sources of new EDOs are by Lateral Transfer from another URL designator or by choosing to exercise their Engineering Duty Option granted upon commissioning 2 For active duty URL Officers a requirement for Lateral Transfer or for exercising an Engineering Duty Option is the completion of either Submarine Warfare or Surface Warfare qualification Therefore the vast majority of EDOs wear the same Submarine Warfare or Surface Warfare insignia as their URL counterparts A small number of EDOs not previously qualified as submarine warfare officers can volunteer for the Engineering Duty Dolphin Program and by successfully completing it earn their Submarine Engineering Duty insignia nbsp Engineering Duty Officer Qualification Insignia The EDO qualification insignia was approved in June 2017 Taking the same form as other warfare or qualification devices it is a metal or embroidered chest device worn on the left side primary or secondary position of the uniform Once qualified EDOs can wear this insignia according to U S Navy uniform regulations December 22 2017 Warfare qualified EDOs have the option of wearing the EDO insignia in the secondary position since warfare devices take precedence over the EDO qualification insignia Areas of specialization editCurrent EDOs serve in one of several career fields including Program management of surface ships submarines weapons and combat systems and Information Warfare C4ISR systems Maintenance of surface ships and submarines at naval shipyards and smaller scale maintenance facilities Naval Sea Systems and Naval Information Warfare Systems engineering Underwater ship husbandry diving and salvage The Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program History editThe importance of engineering duty officers in United States Navy history is memorialized in a bronze bas relief by American sculptor Antonio Tobias Toby Mendez 3 on the sculpture wall at the United States Navy Memorial in Washington DC entitled Engineering Duty Officers Sharpening the Point of the Spear 4 This is one of 26 such reliefs along the southern hemisphere of the Granite Sea at the Navy Memorial which commemorate events personnel and communities of the various sea services The breast insignia of the EDO first issued in January 2018 was spearheaded by Capt Huan Nguyen with the support of Rear Adm Alma Grocki and Rear Adm Ronald Fritzemeier 1 Notable engineering duty officers editThe former Honorable Sean J Stackley Assistant Secretary of the Navy Research Development and Acquisition Admiral Hyman G Rickover USN Father of the Nuclear Navy Admiral Samuel M Robinson USN Director of Material and Procurement during World War II and first Chief of the Bureau of Ships Vice Admiral George P Nanos USN former Commander of the Naval Sea Systems Command and Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory Commodore George R Salisbury USN 15th Naval Governor of Guam Rear Admiral Wayne E Meyer USN Father of Aegis Rear Admiral William S Deak Parsons USN Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance known for assembling in flight the triggering mechanism of the atomic bomb Little Boy aboard the Enola Gay Rear Admiral Benjamin F Isherwood USN Civil War era engineer in chief of the Navy and founder of the Bureau of Steam Engineering Rear Admiral George W Melville USN pioneering advocate of warship steam propulsion and engineer in chief of the Navy Rear Admiral David W Taylor USN chief constructor of the Navy during World War I and builder of the United States first experimental warship towing tank Rear Admiral Henry A Schade USN designer of the Midway class aircraft carrier and later a director of the Naval Research Laboratory Rear Admiral Kathleen K Paige USN first Ballistic Missile Defense System technical director at the United States Missile Defense Agency Captain Willard F Bill Searle Jr USN former Navy Supervisor of Salvage and coordinator of the USS Scorpion SSN 589 search effort and the search for a lost nuclear warhead B28 nuclear bomb near Palomares Spain in 1966 Captain Heidemarie M Stefanyshyn Piper USN Space Shuttle astronaut mission specialist and Navy diver Lieutenant Commander Joseph Weber USN co discoverer of the principles behind the maser and laser developer of the first gravitational wave detectors after leaving naval service Captain William J Kastner USN ret 33 years of service as Naval Engineering Duty Officer and instrumental in developing the modern reserve EDO program Rear Admiral Grace Hopper USN a pioneer of computer programming Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine independent programming languagesSee also editList of Naval Officer DesignatorsReferences edit Navy Approves New Engineering Duty Officer Qualification Insignia Naval Sea Systems Command 15 February 2018 Retrieved 20 May 2018 External links editNavy Personnel Command Engineering Duty Officers Navy Personnel Command Engineering Duty Officer Community Leadership Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Engineering duty officer amp oldid 1099768125, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
