Metron Announces New Executive Position with the Appointment of Dr. Robert Zarnich to Chief Engineer and the Promotion of Dr. Dominick Vincent to Vice President, Advanced Mathematics Applications Division
JANUARY 16, 2025, RESTON, Va. --(PR NEWSWIRE)—Metron Inc., a trusted provider of advanced research, scientific, and software solutions for government and commercial markets, announced the appointment of Dr. Robert (Bob) Zarnich as the company’s first Chief Engineer, highlighting the Company's commitment to delivering an expanded range of disruptive integrated solutions for multi-domain operations across sea, air, land, and space defense programs. In this role, Dr. Zarnich will focus on accelerating the transition of high priority innovations from Metron’s scientific and research base to operational capabilities in the field. With Dr. Zarnich’s new appointment, Metron’s Dr. Dominick (Nick) Vincent has been promoted to Vice President of the Advanced Mathematics Applications (AMA) division. These leadership moves reflect the Company's ongoing commitment to enhance customer value through scalable, field-ready innovations that deliver Decision Superiority across the Joint and Combined warfighting ecosystem.
"For forty years, Metron has been an industry leader in the invention and development of robust solutions for some of the toughest technical problems facing national security,” stated J. Van Gurley, President and CEO of Metron. “The establishment of a Chief Engineer position is part of our focus on accelerating the operational transition of our inventions and solutions to the warfighters. At Metron and in his earlier career with the Navy, Dr. Zarnich established an unmatched record for pulling new innovative technologies out of R&D and fast-tracking them into operations through multiple programs of record. In his new role, Dr. Zarnich will work to accelerate transitions across the entire Metron portfolio.”
"It is an honor to serve in this capacity at such a critical time for the nation,” stated Dr. Robert Zarnich, Chief Engineer, Metron. “Our approach to battlespace sensing, perception, fusion and track custody, combined with Metron’s unique Decision Superiority innovations enables us to provide critically needed capabilities for warfighters. I look forward to collaborating with our military leaders along with industry and academia partners to ensure we deliver needed capability advancements at speed and scale."
With Dr. Zarnich’s executive transition to Chief Engineer, Dr. Vincent will now lead the Advanced Mathematics Applications (AMA) division. In this role, he will be responsible for the Decision Superiority and Sensor Perception, Fusion and Target Custody portfolio, which includes: mission planning and execution, statistical signal and information processing, advanced sonar & radar processing, electronic warfare, tracking & target custody, distributed sensor processing & fusion, acoustic intelligence, and other innovations to support the most difficult challenges facing our national security.
“In his 5 years at Metron, Nick has generated significant growth in our mission planning and Decision Superiority technology areas, making them our largest project areas today,” stated J. Van Gurley, President and CEO of Metron. “He is ideally suited to take over leadership of our largest division delivering next-generation DoD mission planning ecosystems, advanced signal processing, sensor perception & fusion, target custody, and advanced undersea and electronic warfare capabilities.”
“With our team’s strong focus on providing game-changing capabilities to our warfighting customers, I am truly grateful for the opportunity to lead this exceptional team dedicated to leveraging cutting edge innovation to advance our national security,’” stated Dr. Vincent, Vice President, Metron Advanced Mathematics Applications Division.
Since 1984, Metron has been at the forefront of technological innovation, providing tools that empower operators by fusing ambiguous information across multiple sources, inferring mathematically sound insights based on those data, and driving mission success rates through system-generated recommendations that provide the best outcome. Recent successful transitions of innovations from the lab to operations include the ILRT and TRK fusion and tracking solutions currently deployed across the Undersea Enterprise; our DoD mission planning ecosystem tools (e.g. Horizon), and our platform, sensor, payload, and mission agnostic Resilient Mission Autonomy™ for defense and offshore energy autonomous applications.