Rear Admiral Nevin Palmer Carr Jr. (born 17 November 1956)
[ is a retired ]U.S. Navy
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admiral who served as Chief of Naval Research
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Biography
Carr graduated in 1979 from the U.S. Naval Academy
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with a Bachelor of Science in naval architecture
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. He earned a Master of Science in operations research from the Naval Postgraduate School
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in 1986, and attended the six-week Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School
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's and Golden Anchors in both tours. While in command of ''Cape St. George'', The ship participated in combat operations in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom
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in the European
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and Central Command theaters.[
Ashore, Carr served in the ]Office of the Secretary of Defense
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, where he worked on the ''Arleigh Burke'', ''Ticonderoga'', and ''Seawolf'' programs, and several Ballistic Missile Defense
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programs. He later served in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
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as requirements officer for the Aegis Cruiser and Destroyer programs, and was executive assistant to the Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command
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. Following promotion to the flag rank of rear Admiral (lower half)
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in 2006, he was assigned as deputy director of Surface Warfare for Combat Systems and Weapons, and later as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (International Programs) and director, Navy International Program Office.[
In December 2008, he became the 22nd chief of Naval Research, succeeding William E. Landay III, with additional duties as Director, Test and Evaluation and Technology Requirements.][ While in this position, Carr was in charge of the Navy's wide range of basic and applied research and development programs, a total of about $3 billion in spending. The initiative during his tenure ranged from next-generation advanced weapons such as ]free-electron laser
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s and railgun
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s to grants for STEM education
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programs.
Carr retired from the U.S. Navy in 2012, handing over the post of Chief of Naval Research to Matthew L. Klunder. Immediately after retiring, he worked as a senior advisor for McKinsey & Co
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, and was a distinguished visiting scholar at Stanford University
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. In October 2013, he took the position of vice president for Surface Readiness & Future Capability at URS Corporation
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, a government contractor. In March 2014, he received the Singapore Defence Technology Distinguished Fellowship from the Singapore Ministry of Defence.
Personal
Carr is the son of Nevin Palmer Carr Sr. and Allison Beth (Sandless) Carr.Newport News, Virginia
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1956 births
Living people
United States Naval Academy alumni
Military personnel from Rhode Island
Naval Postgraduate School alumni
Recipients of the Legion of Merit
United States Navy rear admirals