President

secretary

LCDR Jack Keane, USN (Ret.)

Raised in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Jack graduated from The Virginia Military Institute in 1980 with a degree in Electrical Engineering. After receiving his wings and attending VP-30, he joined the “Pelicans” during the final weeks of their 1982 Sigonella deployment. He made several other deployments with VP-45 as a Nav/Comm and TACCO to both Sigonella and Rota/Lajes, as well as supporting UNITAS-82 with detachments to Panama and Santiago, Chile. Jack left VP-45 in December 1985, joining the staff of Commander, Patrol Wing Two (CPW-2) in Barbers Point, HI where, over the next three years, he served as Assistant Training Officer, Weapons Officer, Current Operations Officer, and ASWOC Director, making multiple detachments to Midway and Kwajalein in support of JCS-tasked Pony Express retired wings Operations and ASW surge operations.

After a brief stint at Tactical Action Officer School, he joined the staff of Commander, Cruiser-Destroyer Group Eight (CCDG-8) during the final month of their Mediterranean deployment embarked in the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71). His assignments included Combat Systems Officer for Command and Control as well as Fixed-Wing ASW Officer. During the Persian Gulf War, he served as Tactical Action Officer, Battle Watch Captain, Anti-Surface Warfare Commander (ASuWC), and as a Tomahawk and TACAIR Strike Planner for the Red Sea Battle Force while embarked with CCDG-8 in the USS Saratoga (CV-60). In 1993, Jack graduated from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA with a degree in Operations Research. He retired in 1995 at the rank of Lieutenant Commander after serving at the Naval Research Laboratory where he flew research missions worldwide.

In August 2019 he retired as a member of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory’s Principal Professional Staff and Branch Supervisor of the Precision Strike Systems Branch in the Force Projection Sector. Between August 1997 and his retirement, he conducted affordability analyses for the Joint Strike Fighter Program Office, served as a retired wings member of DoD’s Simulation-Based Acquisition Joint Task Force, as lead analyst in the development of theater and national missile defense war games, and participated in numerous studies involving force composition and command and control. In addition, he led the APL team in determining the requirements for the P-8 Poseidon aircraft, as well as the MQ-4C Triton Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Air System, and follow-on aircraft to the EP-3 Aries. He has participated in several Defense Science Board Task Forces dealing with intelligence support to the global war on terror and to counter-insurgency operations.

For four years, he was a member of the adjunct faculty of the JHU Whiting School of Engineering. He is a past president and Fellow of the Military Operations Research Society (MORS), having received the MORS Wanner Award, the Society’s highest award for lifetime contributions to the field of Operations Research in 2014. In 2016, he was appointed to the Southern Maryland Higher Education Center (SMHEC) Board of Governors by Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, and remained a member until March 2019 when the SMHEC was subsumed by the University System of Maryland (USM). In September 2019, he was appointed to the Board of Advisors (BoA) for the USM at Southern Maryland by the USM Board of Regents and was elected Chair-Elect of the BoA in July 2022 assuming the duties as Chair in July 2023.

He served as the Vice-President of the Maryland VMI Alumni Chapter from 2014-2019. He retired wings continues to mentor non-commissioning VMI cadets as they embark on their careers upon graduation and was recently elected President of the Board of Directors for the VMI Class of 1980 Foundation, a 501c(3). He was inducted into the Kappa Alpha Order Beta Commission in May 2021 for his services to VMI. Between September 2019 and September 2022, he served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Maritime Patrol Association.

Jack was elected Secretary of the Association in October 2012 and was subsequently elected President at the August 2022 reunion. He currently resides in Waldorf, Maryland. When not serving on various boards, Jack enjoys tracing his family history, travel, and skiing at Lake Tahoe and New England.