Rear Admiral Randolph L. Mahr

Rear Admiral Mahr was born in Elizabeth, N.J., graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1983, was designated a naval flight officer in October 1984 and graduated with distinction from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., in 2001.

His operational tours included assignments as an A-6E Intruder bombardier/navigator with the VA-95 Green Lizards and the VA-115 Eagles, forward deployed to Atsugi, Japan. He also served as a tactics instructor at the Medium Attack Weapons School, Pacific.

As an aerospace engineering duty officer, he was the test and evaluation manager and chief engineer for the Joint Standoff Weapon, and following was deputy program manager for a joint Navy-Air Force research program. He was the first naval officer to serve as vice commandant, Air Force Institute of Technology and was subsequently assigned as chief of staff for the Program Executive Officer, Tactical Aircraft Programs.

He was named program manager (PMA-231) for the Navy’s E-2 Hawkeye and C-2 Greyhound programs beginning May 2005 and in April 2008, and was selected to serve as program manager for the Aircraft Launch and Recovery Equipment program.

In September 2010, he assumed his current position as commander, Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division and assistant commander for Research and Engineering, Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md.