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Robert Sears
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Mr. Robert Sears is the director of N-Wave, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Enterprise Network program. N-Wave operates within the NOAA Office of the Chief Information Officer to align and execute on NOAA's strategic plan for network transport and optimization. It offers a diverse portfolio of enterprise networking services, including a NOAA operated and managed national and international wide area network, NOAA Trusted Internet Connection Access Points, and multiple nationwide NOAA campus networks. Robert also serves as the Chair of the Federal IPv6 Task Force and the Federal Network Representative Co-Chair for the Cloud and Infrastructure Community of Practice (C&I CoP).

Mr. Sears has 32 years of combined military and federal service. His career with NOAA spans 22 years with over 10 of those years leading the N-Wave program. Mr. Sears’s background and degree are in electronic engineering and communications.
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Birds of a Feather
Architecture and Networks
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XO/EX