Advisory Committee
Kai Tang
Commercial SATCOM Lead, Navy PEO
SPAWAR
Kai Tang is currently the Commercial SATCOM Lead in the Navy's Communications Program Office for the Program Executive Officer Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (PEO C4I) in San Diego.
He is the senior acquisition lead within PMW (Program Manager, Warfare) 170 for Navy's Commercial SATCOM efforts including development, testing, fielding, and life cycle support of communications systems such as the Commercial Wideband SATCOM Program (CWSP), the Navy's Inmarsat Lease Service program, the Television-Direct to Sailors program (TV-DTS), and the Navy's Iridium project. He has recently added the Navy's new Commercial Broadband SATCOM Program (CBSP) to his portfolio.
CBSP will be the next generation commercial SATCOM system for the Navy, replacing CWSP and the Inmarsat Lease Service programs.
Previously he was the PEO C4I Assistant Program Manager for CWSP and TV-DTS. He was also the Project Manager for the Navy's AN/WSC-8 C-band shipboard terminals and the Project Engineer for the Navy's AN/WSC-6 X-band shipboard terminal at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in San Diego (SSC-SD) where he received the Center's Exemplary Achievement Award for his work supporting the USS Constellation aircraft carrier during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
He earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
