Michael Bosworth

Michael Bosworth is the Director of the Center for Innovation in Ship Design (CISD) in code 82.  A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Mr. Bosworth served for twenty years as a naval officer, both as a Surface Warfare Officer and an Engineering Duty Officer, serving afloat in an LST, FFGs, DDGs and a CV, and ashore at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, NSWC Carderock, NAVSEA, graduate school at MIT, and the CNO's staff (Surface Warfare), in operational, maintenance, design, R&D and strategic planning positions.  He retired from uniform in 1996.  After six years in industry (Syntek Technologies of Ballston VA), he returned in 2001 to the Navy as a civilian senior naval architect and program manager in the Ship Concepts and Design Group in NAVSEA (SEA 05D), rebuilding and restructuring the Naval Advanced Concept and Technologies (NACT) program.  He then fleeted up in 2007 to division director of the Ship & Force Architecture Concepts Division (SEA 05D1).  In 2009 SEA 05D transferred the Technology Transition branch (now a division) to the newly formed SEA 05 Technology Office under the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Mr. Bosworth was assigned as Technical Director, which in April 2010 became a group (05T) and Mr. Bosworth its deputy director and sometimes acting director/CTO.  In 2014 Mr. Bosworth became the Science and Technology Director for PEO LCS (now Unmanned and Small Combatants, USC), and in June 2018 he transferred to NSWC Carderock for his present duties as CISD Director.

Mr. Bosworth and his wife Barbara have three grown children, and live in Vienna Virginia.