Speakers and Moderators
JJ Shaw
Director Navy Programs
Inmarsat Incorporated
J.J. Shaw is the Director for Naval Programs, Inmarsat Government Services, Inmarsat Incorporated, based in Washington, DC, United States. Inmarsat provides mobile satellite system communications services for government and commercial users in maritime, aeronautical and land environments.
Before retiring from the U.S. Navy, Commander (Ret) J.J. Shaw was the Branch Head, Satellite and Tactical Communications as well as the Branch Head, Enterprise Information Technology/Space Policy for the Chief of Naval Operations. In this capacity, he led the development of Naval Space Policy and was Navy’s lead for the Transformational Communications Architecture and System development. During previous tours, he brought the "Challenge Athena" Commercial Wideband Satellite Communications Program to Fleet-wide implementation, increasing the U.S. Navy’s total bandwidth by 12-fold. He led the U.S. Navy’s migration from Inmarsat A to Inmarsat High Speed Data B implementation and consolidated the Fleet’s Inmarsat use into a lease structure. While assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)/Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) J-2, he served as the Deputy, Year 2000 (Y2K) Intelligence Task Force. As a Naval Officer, he has served aboard USS Ranger (CV-61) and USS Enterprise (CVN-65) aircraft carriers; USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2), USS Mount Whitney (LCC-20) and USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19) amphibious command and control ships during numerous operational deployments.
J.J. Shaw, a native of Santa Barbara, California, is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a degree in Biochemistry/Molecular Biology; a graduate of the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, in Systems Technology (Space Systems Operations); and a distinguished graduate of the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, in National Security and Strategic Studies.
