RADM Raymond Spicer USN (Ret.)

Retired Navy Rear Admiral Ray Spicer is the CEO and Publisher of the U.S. Naval Institute. He previously served as an executive at IBM, most recently having led IBM Federal’s Defense and Intelligence Technology Sales team, responsible for providing IBM products and support to the Defense and Intelligence Community. Prior to joining IBM in 2015, Spicer was the director of Kestrel Programs for the Intelligence Systems Group at Boeing Defense, Space & Security. His leadership of diverse engineering, analytic and management teams ensured the continued, successful delivery of Kestrel Programs' products and services to a variety of government, commercial and international customers. Spicer completed a successful career in the U.S. Navy in 2010, with extensive leadership experience in assignments including command at sea of the destroyer USS Mitscher (DDG-57), Destroyer Squadron Seven and Carrier Strike Group Twelve embarked in USS Enterprise (CVN-65). During his time at sea, he completed