E-2X Chief Engineer for Advanced Technology
Stan Zoubek currently holds the position of “E-2X Chief Engineer for Advanced Technology”. In that role he is focused on long term upgrades to the E-2D weapon system and transitioning to the next generation Naval AEW&BMC2 solution. He began his career at the Grumman Corporation in the E-2C laboratory as an assistant engineer in the radar group, contributing to the development of multiple E-2C radar systems for the US Navy and foreign military sales. Stan was awarded US patent 5,017,921 as co-inventor of a “Radar System and a Method of Operating a Radar System” in 1991 as a result of the development of the LJF (least-jammed frequency) system incorporated into the AN/APS-125 for an overseas customer. Through the 1990s, he became an important member team developing the advanced development model of the electronic scan, space-time adaptive processing radar that would eventually become the E-2D’s APY-9. Through the summer of 1999, Stan co-led a team in successfully conducting a ground-based demonstration of this radar system at a US Navy facility, enabling the development to proceed to SD&D phase and later into production. He served the Advanced Hawkeye program as Avionics IPT Leader before becoming its Chief Engineer in July of 2003. Stan held the position of Chief Engineer and Director of Engineering for the E-2/C-2 Enterprise, encompassing all technical activity for advanced development, development and production of domestic and international E-2C, E-2D and C-2 aircraft platforms, from November 2006 until transitioning to his current role July of 2016. Stan graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and later completed a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science in Management of Technology, both at Polytechnic University.