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William Fong is an Engineer for the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific (NIWC PAC) in Hawaii in the Advanced Development and Experimentation Branch within the Intelligence, Surveillance, & Reconnaissance (ISR) Division. Currently, William is leading research and development efforts to deploy 5G network testbeds for the Department of Defense (DoD) to military bases on Oahu and at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island (NASWI) as a part of the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam 5G Initiative sponsored by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense Research and Engineering (OUSD R&E) 5GNextG Program. As a part of this work, William is integrating: commercial/private 5G networks to meet DoD missions, distributed Mobile Access Edge Compute (MEC) with cloud native networking, and Open Radio Access Networks (ORAN) with Software Defined Radios (SDR).
William received his Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) and his Master's in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) focusing on Physical Wave Electronics and the mass production of flexible graphene devices.
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