A 1980 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, and 2010 graduate of the Naval Postgraduate School, Ira is a retired Navy Captain (Surface Warfare) with a Masters in Systems Engineering and a Graduate Certificate in Network Engineering, an Architecture & Systems Engineering Professional Certificate from MIT, and extensive experience working for Fortune 500 corporations in Silicon Valley. He is currently responsible for the development of the System of Systems Executable Architecture capability at SPAWAR Systems Command, and is certified in the DoD Acquisition and Cybersecurity workforces.