Mr. Hackney is currently the Director, Undersea Warfare (DUSW).  Appointed in April 2020 to Senior Leader (SL) cadre of Senior Executives, he serves as the mission area director for USW across the NAVSEA Warfare Centers (WFC’s) and resides within Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Headquarters.  As the Director, Mr. Hackney provides leadership, guidance, and oversight of USW mission-level activities, leveraging the WFC’s technical, operational and analytical capabilities.  Prior to this appointed, he was on the DUSW staff focusing on future concepts and advanced capabilities with an emphasis in cross-domain ops, special programs, Command, Control & Comms (C3), EW/Cyber, advanced sensing and unmanned systems.  

Mr. Hackney began his career working various Antisubmarine Warfare (ASW) programs in the areas of undersea warfare (USW) system development, test & evaluation and fleet introduction including AN/SQQ-89, IUSS Low Frequency Active (LFA) and Surface Ship sonar systems.

During the period of 2008 to 2011, Mr. Hackney was assigned to Navy Warfare Development Command initially as the ONR-Global Science Advisor and subsequently serving as Technical Director.  From 2006 to 2008, he was assigned as the ONR-Global Science Advisor for United States Pacific Fleet (PACFLT).  Prior to his PACFLT tour, Mr. Hackney was the USW FORCEnet Mission Capability Manager at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Newport with responsibilities to include technical management and end-to-end Systems Engineering to implement Theater ASW / C4 / FORCEnet capabilities and concepts for the USW Mission Area and was assigned as the initial Integrated Undersea Warfare Technical Authority Warrant for NAVSEA.  Mr. Hackney was twice detailed to Chief of Naval Operations office as an on-site technical advisor including the N61F FORCEnet Requirements Branch and N863 Maritime Systems Branch. 

Mr. Hackney holds a Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering Degree from University of Rhode Island and completed Naval Post Graduate School’s Advanced Acquisition, Program Management & Leadership Program.   

His decorations include three Superior Civilian Service Awards and two Meritorious Civilian Service Awards.