Homeland Security Business Conference & Expo
Senator Jack Reed
Congressman Patrick Kennedy
June 7, 2004
Newport, RI

Speaker Biographies

Bernard L. Patterson
Marine Acoustics, Inc.
Middletown, RI
www.marineacoustics.com/

Mr. Patterson is Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Marine Acoustics, Inc., a veteran-owned small business incorporated in 1988. MAI is a nationally recognized provider of innovative high technology solutions to government and commercial agencies programs in the areas of acoustic research, marine environmental compliance, sea test planning and support, acoustic modeling, and language technology.

Over 13 years at MAI, Mr. Patterson has been involved in the Navy’s Surface Bistatics Sonar Program, and several MAI special programs, including Unmanned Surface Vehicles, Remotely Piloted Vehicles, the Marine Mammal Research Program, and the DARPA Translator. He is also responsible for overall coordination of the Small Business Innovative Research Program and directs the company’s overall finances and contract administration. During a 28 years in the US Navy, he served as a Commanding Officer both at sea and ashore and was the Director of the Defense Analysis Course at the Naval War College in Newport and the Department Chairman and Professor of Naval Science at Holy Cross College in Worchester.

Mr. Patterson received an MBA from the University of Rhode Island, an MS in Operations Research from the US Naval Postgraduate School, and a BS from the US Naval Academy. He is also a Distinguished Graduate of the Naval War College and a member of Beta Gamma Sigma.

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