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Upcoming events

    • 9 Sep 2025
    • 8:00 AM
    • 11 Sep 2025
    • 4:30 PM
    • Hampton Roads Convention Center

    MegaRust is scheduled for September 9-11, 2025 at the Hampton Roads Convention Center, Hampton, VA.

    MegaRust is conducted annually to provide a consolidated focus on Navy corrosion issues. 

    SIGN UP HERE: https://www.navalengineers.org/Symposia/MegaRust2025

    • 15 Oct 2025
    • 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
    • LOCATION: Holiday Inn, 5655 Greenwich Rd, Virginia Beach, VA 23462
    • 150
    Register

    Speaker:  Rear Admiral John Polowczyk, Retired

    Rear Admiral John Polowczyk

    Rear Adm. John Polowczyk is a native of Manhasset, Long Island, New York. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1987 with a Bachelor of Science in engineering. He holds a Master of Science in Contract and Acquisition Management from the Naval Postgraduate School and a Master of Science in National Resource Strategy from the National Defense University Industrial College of the Armed Forces. He also completed an executive education program at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
     

    Polowczyk’s sea duty assignments include supply department head tours aboard the fast attack submarine USS Queenfish (SSN 651), the destroyer USS Peterson (DD 969) and the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5).
     

    Ashore, he most recently served as director, logistics programs and business operations in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV N41). His other shore assignments include Fleet Ordnance and Supply (N41) and fleet supply officer on the staff of Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command, in Norfolk; comptroller, U.S. Fleet Forces Command; commanding officer, Naval Supply System Command, Fleet Logistics Center Pearl Harbor; business management officer, U.S. Joint Forces Command, Norfolk; military assistant to the assistant secretary of the Navy for Financial Management & Comptroller; OPNAV N413 Joint Logistics officer, where he developed the Navy-Marine Corps Naval Logistics Integration program; business financial manager, Seawolf Program Office, Naval Sea Systems Command; financial officer, Commander, Naval Surface Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet; contracting officer with Naval Sea Systems Command; and instructor, Naval Supply Corps School, Athens, Georgia.
     

    Polowczyk assumed the position of vice director for logistics, logistics directorate (J4), Joint Staff in June 2017. The J4 is responsible for integrating logistics planning and execution in support of joint operations to drive joint force readiness, maximize the Joint Force Commander's freedom of action and advise the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on logistics matters.
     

    Polowczyk is a qualified submarine supply officer, Surface Warfare Supply Corps officer and member of the Defense Acquisition Professional Community. His personal awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit (three awards), Meritorious Service Medal (four awards), Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (four awards) and Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal (four awards).



    Dress code: 

    For our Navy and Coast Guard members and guests, we hope you can join us for all our TW events. If you attend in uniform, Service Khaki / Summer White / Tropical Blue, as well as Service Dress Blue are appropriate military dress.










    • 19 Nov 2025
    • 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
    • LOCATION: Holiday Inn, 5655 Greenwich Rd, Virginia Beach, VA 23462
    • 150
    Register

    Speaker: Rear Admiral Andrew M. Biehn, Director of Surface Ship Maintenance, Modernization, and Sustainment (SEA 21), Naval Sea Systems Command


    Rear Adm. Andrew Biehn, a native of Staunton, Virginia, graduated from the University of Virginia in 1995 with a Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Affairs and was commissioned through the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. He received his Master’s in Business Administration from George Washington University in 2002.

    His operational assignments include serving as Damage Control Assistant in USS Normandy (CG 60), Tomahawk cruise missile mission planner with Afloat Planning Systems Atlantic and the JOHN F. KENNEDY Strike Group staff, returning to Normandy as Weapons Officer and Combat Systems Officer, deploying to Afghanistan as a fire support officer for a Joint Special Operations Task Force, and serving as Executive Officer and Commanding Officer of USS Truxtun (DDG 103). He has deployed in support of Operations Southern Watch, Enduring Freedom, and Iraqi Freedom.

    Ashore, Rear Adm. Biehn has served as an instructor at the United States Naval Academy and on the staff of U. S. Central Command.

    Acquisition professional assignments include assistant program manager in the Strike Planning and Execution Systems program office; principal assistant program manager in the Aegis program office; major program manager for Aegis Fleet Readiness; major program manager for the Aegis integrated combat system; executive assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition; and director of development and integration for Program Executive Office Integrated Warfare Systems.

    Since June 2025, Rear Adm. Biehn has served as Director of Surface Ship Maintenance, Modernization and Sustainment (SEA 21) at Naval Sea Systems Command.

    In 2002, Rear Adm. Biehn received the Apgar Award for excellence in teaching and leadership at the United States Naval Academy. In 2021, he was recognized as the Navy’s Program Manager of the Year and by the Secretary of Defense for excellence in software acquisition.


    Dress code: 

    For our Navy and Coast Guard members and guests, we hope you can join us for all our TW events. If you attend in uniform, Service Khaki / Summer White / Tropical Blue, as well as Service Dress Blue are appropriate military dress.










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