Gregory Niehaus joined SDi in 2011 immediately after graduating college as an electrical engineer and has served the Navy’s ASW mission ever since. His systems engineering background spans every stage of the sonobuoy development process, from unit bench testing to serving as a project specialist during data gathering events aboard the Navy’s P-3 and P-8 aircraft. His technical work has included GPS-denied location services developed with UPenn, programming a 4-channel transceiver to record the entire RF buoy band, uplink encoding design for R&D sonobuoys, and sensor tilt analysis supporting sonobuoy specification development.

As Senior Manager of Advanced Engineering and Innovation, Gregory leads a team of talented engineers working on prototype PCB design, fleet signal processing improvements, and everything in between. He leads SBIR proposal development for SDi and works programs through all three phases, from Phase I studies to the hardware builds and testing of Phases II and III. He works with the Navy and industry partners under a variety of programs and sponsors including PMA-264, ONR, and NUWC.

Gregory has a BSEE from the University of Scranton with a minor in Physics. He lives in Warrington, PA with his wife Mae Lynn and their three children. He enjoys basketball, volleyball, and functional 3D printing.