Joseph O. Knoefel, 75 of California, MD died Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at his residence. Born June 16, 1940 in Louisville, KY, he was the son of Louis Knoefel and Martha Stengler. Joe Attended Florida State University, where he earned his BS in Electronic Engineering in 1971. His career brought him to NESEA, St. Inigoes, MD as a Project Engineer in the communications and tactical systems division. By 1996, soon after Mr. Knoefel’s proposal to design, integrate, and test radio communication system (RCS) for the new AEGIS ships was accepted, the systems Integration and Test Division was formed. In1990 Mr. Knoefel became the head of the newly formed Systems Integration Directorate. The directorate’s major programs include designing and integrating communication systems to meet the requirements of ships, special warfare groups, and joint allied endeavors; designing, testing, integrating, and delivering RCSs for AEGIS ships; assisting the navy and other DOD components regarding automatic data processing security and computer networking systems; and developing the Joint Universal Data Interpreter to provide joint service interoperability. In 1992 Mr. Knoefel transferred to NISE East, Charleston South Carolina, Where he was the Security System Department head and retired in 1994 from Civil Service. Mr. Knoefel retired as senior […]
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