Roger Gilbertson is a retired two-star Rear Admiral. From 1991 to 1998 he was responsible for 200 Naval Reserve units with 5,000 reservists. Included were 1,000 Engineering Duty Officers - the High Tech Brain Trust of the Department of Defense.
His Navy duty has been highlighted by connoisseur performance of leadership - empowering, motivating, innovating - and persuading.
He is a plank-owner in the 1960s Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS) - the ancestral computer system that empowers state-of-the-art Aegis warships - the Ticonderoga Class Cruisers and the Arleigh Burke Class Destroyers.
CIVILIAN CAREER
In his civilian career,
Dr. Gilbertson has mentored and sponsored basic research
in the International Trade Administration.
He retired from that second calling in 2001.
He also served on the adjunct faculty of
Shenandoah University from 1990 to 1995 where he taught in
the MBA program.
NAVY LEADERSHIP
Rear Admiral Gilbertson had
three Commanding Officer tours
as he advanced to Admiral. He has served on a dozen
Officer Promotion
Boards - responsible for the careers of hundreds of
officers.
He has been Chairman of the Reserve Engineering Duty
Executive Steering Committee (RESC), the Naval Reserve
Engineering Duty Qualification Board (NREDQB), and the ED
Reserve Policy Steering Group (RPSG). He has also been the
Chairman for many technical conferences and meetings.
As an Admiral his billet was Deputy Director for Mobilization
of the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, DC
- NAVSEA employes over 60,000 people.
As a Captain he was Director of
the Naval Reserve Engineering Duty Officer Course at
Leesburg, Virginia, for three years.
NAVY HONORS
His Navy awards are:
PROFESSIONAL PARTICIPATION
RADM Gilbertson's professional memberships have
included: Naval Reserve Association,
Reserve Officers Association,
U.S. Naval Institute,
American Society of Naval Engineers,
Navy League of the United States,
Naval Order of the United States,
Military Order of the Carabao,
Natonal Association of Uniformed Services,
Military Officers Association of America,
Institute of Radio Engineers,
American Institute of Electrical Engineers,
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,
Institute of Industrial Engineers, and
the American Society of Public Administration.
EDUCATION
Rear Admiral Gilbertson has had a long association with
many forms and themes of education - he graduated from an
engineering high school, the Baltimore Polytechnic
Institute "A" course.
MORE EDUCATION
He attended the National Defense University as the first
Naval Reserve Capstone Fellow (1993). He has also done
graduate work at the University of Colorado, the American
University, the George Washington University Law School,
the USDA Graduate School,
and UCLA. Other military education includes the Senior
Reserve course at the Army War College, the
Senior Seminar at the Navy War College, and the Senior
Acquisition Management Course at the Defense Systems
Management College. He completed a wide variety
of Naval Correspondence Courses during his career.
He also attended, by invitation, the Russian General
and Admirals Course at the Harvard Kennedy School of
Government.
ACADEMIC HONORS
He has earned membership in these academics honor
societies:
FAMILY
Roger's grown children are - a daughter,
Gambi, and a son, Erik.
