SPA Fellows
Dr. Bill Hoeft
Senior Fellow, Undersea Strategy
As Senior Fellow, Dr. Bill Hoeft coordinates and oversees SPA’s Fellow Program.
As SPA’s Undersea Strategy Fellow, Dr. Hoeft is responsible for ensuring that SPA’s undersea-related work is technically sound, objective, tightly integrated, far-sighted, and influential.
Dr. Bill Hoeft
Senior Fellow, Undersea Strategy
As Senior Fellow, Dr. Bill Hoeft coordinates and oversees SPA’s Fellow Program.
As SPA’s Undersea Strategy Fellow, Dr. Hoeft is responsible for ensuring that SPA’s undersea-related work is technically sound, objective, tightly integrated, far-sighted, and influential.
In 2004, Dr. Hoeft retired as a Navy Captain after 24 years of service as a submarine officer and came to SPA, where he has continued to support all aspects of the undersea enterprise, including future platform options, procurement plans, unmanned undersea vehicles, weapons innovations, and advanced operating concepts.
At sea, Dr. Hoeft served on four attack submarines and commanded USS Salt Lake City (SSN-716), making 11 deployments (two in command) and operating in every ocean and against every important maritime adversary. Ashore, he had tours on the Joint Staff and at US European Command in Stuttgart, Germany, a tour as a Moreau Scholar during which he earned a doctorate in international relations from Georgetown University, and three years as Executive Assistant to the Director of Undersea Warfare on the Chief of Naval Operations’ staff in the Pentagon.
Because of the rapidly growing importance of the undersea to the security of the United States, Dr. Hoeft’s team is ensuring that SPA’s broad and innovative undersea analytical capabilities are keeping pace.
