Bob joined AMI in Bremerton WA in 2007 as a Senior Consultant following a 22 year career as a US naval officer. In 2010 he relocated to Northern Virginia as Vice President of Advisory Services to head up AMI’s DC Operations Office. He advises on defense, naval, maritime, C4/ISR, aerospace, and unmanned systems markets.
Bob has been quoted and published on naval, defense and economic issues in CNBC, Defense News, Naval Forces Magazine, Singapore Straits Times, BBC, Al-Jazeera and a wide range of national and regional media around the world. He has also presented papers at naval industry expos and conferences in the US, Europe and Asia.
Bob’s skill sets include strategic planning, competitive assessment, business development and capture, defense systems, tactics, and platform analysis; and market and risk research.
Bob earned undergraduate degrees at New Mexico State University and attended the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and Defense Language Institute, where he studied Russian. He graduated with distinction from the U.S. Naval War College in 2004 and received an M.B.A from Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia in 2007.
His last Navy assignment was as Director of Command and Control overseeing major C4ISR programs on the U.S. Navy’s acquisition staff in the Pentagon. Bob has also served as Assistant Naval Attache in Moscow, current intelligence department head on the U.S. Navy staff in London, and in analytic and watch officer assignments in Hawaii, South Korea, and Japan. His operational assignments included duty as an Intelligence Officer afloat with expeditionary and aviation units.
Bob is married to Nancy Smedberg of McLean, Virginia where they live with their 7 children. Bob has been an adjunct university instructor in Economics and Accounting and a youth athletics coach.
Contact Bob at: bnugent@amiinter.com
