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RDML Charles H. Goddard, USN

Award: Gold Medal Award
Year: 2006
RDML Charles H. Goddard, USN

Over the course of his career, Rear Admiral Goddard’s achievements have had a profound impact on the design and engineering of current and future Navy ships. His contributions have been both evolutionary and revolutionary and have helped shepherd new capabilities and technologies to the Fleet. These achievements have resulted in significant enhancements to the overall engineering and warfighting capability of the Fleet.

A strong and visionary force in the design and engineering of the nation’s future Surface Fleet, Rear Admiral Goddard’s leadership of the Navy’s most transformational and technically complex shipbuilding program drove the DDG 1000 program from concept design and identification of operational requirements to the execution of a highly successful Critical Design Review. His tireless dedication sustained the viability and progress of the program and the technologies, systems, and practices implemented through his efforts will positively affect almost every class of ship the Navy will build for decades to come.

With a total ship system design that encompasses an unprecedented ten Engineering Development Models; DDG 1000 is setting new warfighting and performance standards, and will form the technological foundation for generations of surface warships including Integrated Propulsion, an Advanced Gun System firing long range projectiles out to 83 nautical miles, revolutionary stealth technology, composite manufacturing techniques that support larger phased array radars, open architected software and reduced manning technologies that will benefit the fleet now and into the future.

Rear Admiral Goddard’s exceptional technical and program leadership over the course of many years is unmatched. He has contributed beyond measure to the national defense arsenal, providing Fleet Sailors with unprecedented combat capability at significantly reduced life cycle costs, while introducing dramatic improvements to crew Quality of Life and bringing superior firepower to the battlespace. He has demonstrated the highest ideals of naval engineering and is truly most deserving of the ASNE Gold Medal for 2006.