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Mr. Andy Coon

Mr. Andy Coon joined DARPA STO as a Program Manager in February of 2008. He has focused on Maritime programs critical to DoD (Deep Sea Operations, Non-Traditional Active Sonar, Interrogative ASW, and other related R&D initiatives).

Prior to serving at DARPA, Mr. Coon was employed with BBN for 8 years where he led several advanced research programs for the Navy and DARPA. He oversaw the Distant Thunder active sonar program where he supported advanced development for ship and aircraft systems evolved over several sea tests. He led research for a number of ONR active sonar programs with a focus on signal and information processing ranging from data fusion to target classification. He also supported the Navy and the DARPA Center of Excellence for Research in Ocean Sciences (CEROS) in distributed sensing and communications projects.

Prior to working at BBN, Mr. Coon was employed for 13 years at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He worked in Submarine Technology Department. His projects spanned exploratory development to operational support primarily associated with sonar signal and information processing. His early work focused on air-deployed multi-static systems beginning with the NAVAIR Extended Echo Ranging (EER) system.

Mr. Coon received a BSEE from the University of Maryland in 1987, and an MSEE from The Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering in 1992.