Dr. Shane Turner

Turning defense data into fielded advantage.

Senior Vice President, Solutions & Artificial Intelligence at Astrion

I lead cleared teams across defense growth, mission solutions, and enterprise AI. From hands-on engineering to large-scale program delivery.

  • Active TS clearance
  • Arizona
  • USMC veteran
Dr. Shane Turner
Defense growth · Mission solutions · Enterprise AI
20+
Years across four services
$1B+
Contract wins contributed to
$896M
Navy program directed
700+
Personnel led
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01 · Selected results

Strategy through execution.

Growth · HII

Contributed to $1B+ in wins

Architected Navy live and virtual training range solutions across NCTE, NITE, and CTTR. Supported capture teams across all four services.

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Delivery · HII

700+ people. $896M program.

Directed Navy training delivery across the western United States, expanding range capability and improving cost performance.

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Innovation · Astrion

CrewFlex rated a Strength

Turned a legacy scheduling tool into an automated enterprise asset recognized by government proposal evaluators.

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Enterprise AI · Astrion

From AI strategy to a working platform.

Launched shAIne and established its value model during the first month. Built the ModelOps, evidence governance, and quality standards to support reuse across programs.

A practical foundation for AI adoption, with attributed effort and a clear method for estimating value.

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Recognition

  • 2025 ASTRYS AwardStrategic Excellence in Innovative Solutions, Astrion’s highest company-level recognition.
  • Outstanding QASP scoresEWTPS modernization delivered on budget and on schedule.
  • Top transition scorecardClean transition of all systems and personnel, earning top government marks.
02 · Executive profile

Technical depth. Executive perspective.

My career connects engineering, program leadership, and business growth. I have worked from prototype test and classified networks through Navy range operations, major contract pursuits, and enterprise AI.

Today, I lead Astrion’s data, evidence, analytics, and AI work for Layered Defense, Autonomous Warfare, and Integrated Fires, translating operational knowledge into mission solutions and customer-facing strategy.

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Core capabilities

Growth & leadership

  • Solution architecture
  • Capture & win strategy
  • Executive program leadership
  • Cleared workforce leadership

Mission & engineering

  • Multi-domain test & evaluation
  • Electronic warfare & Counter-UAS
  • Directed energy
  • Training range modernization

AI & execution

  • Artificial intelligence & ModelOps
  • Data governance & evidence
  • Scenario & mission modeling
  • FAR / DFARS compliance
  • Cost, risk & EVMS discipline
03 · Experience

Professional experience

From hands-on systems work to enterprise leadership. Full career history, including promotions and concurrent assignments.

Astrion · Huntsville, AL

2024 – Present
Current role

Senior Vice President, Solutions & Artificial Intelligence

Jun 2026 – Present

Layered Defense, Autonomous Warfare & Integrated Fires Division

Promoted from Vice President, Multi-Domain Test & Evaluation.

  • Lead Astrion's data, evidence, analytics, ModelOps, scenario, and mission-thread development lane for Layered Defense, Autonomous Warfare, and Integrated Fires, directing cleared, cross-functional teams that turn operational, test, training, and sustainment data into decision-grade insight across Counter-UAS, electronic warfare, integrated fires, tactical robotic autonomous systems, and multi-domain test and evaluation.
  • Convert test evidence, analytics, and operational knowledge into customer-facing solution narratives, technical volumes, capability roadmaps, and discriminating win themes for high-value pursuits where multi-domain T&E, EW, C-UAS, and AI experience set Astrion apart.
  • Launched shAIne, an enterprise AI platform, and established an initial value model during its first month showing $53K–$73K in estimated cost avoidance. The platform subscription is $37,200 per year, a separate cost reference. View the model and its assumptions.
  • Built the platform's ModelOps and evidence governance: reuse controls, output quality and explainability standards, and a role-based value framework (attributed hours × loaded labor rate) with traceability from data source to analytic method to modeled value, supporting consistent review and reuse across programs.
  • Used agentic AI coding to build a Weekly Status Reporting tool in its first week, with roughly 17,140 lines of code in the repository. A separate development-effort estimate valued the avoided work at 310 hours / $32,500 in loaded labor cost; this estimate is not added to the platform figures above.

Vice President, Multi-Domain Test & Evaluation

Oct 2024 – May 2026

Promoted from Director, Program Management.

  • Set division-level growth strategy for multi-domain T&E across air, land, sea, space, and cyber, defining market priorities, capability narratives, and capture focus areas for high-value pursuits.
  • Led solution architecture and capture strategy for strategic proposals, authoring technical volumes, building win themes, and running competitive analysis to position Astrion against incumbents.
  • Built and led Astrion's AI Tiger Team, directing custom AI assistants and workflow tools used across the proposal organization to cut draft cycle time and standardize output quality.
  • Authored a 20-page Counter-UAS, small UAS, and EW white paper linking Digital Horizon, Meridian, PULSE, and Facet into a unified U.S. Army capability narrative.
  • Redesigned CrewFlex from a legacy scheduling tool into an automated enterprise asset rated a proposal Strength by government evaluators.

Director, Program Management

Aug 2024 – Oct 2024
  • Directed program management for the division, establishing execution cadence, delivery standards, and governance across active programs and pursuits; promoted to Vice President within two months.

HII Mission Technologies · Virginia Beach, VA

2020 – 2024

Program Manager, EWTPS System Modernization

Jan 2024 – Aug 2024

Concurrent assignments (2022–2024): held alongside the Live & Virtual Range Solutions SME and DESIL Lead Engineer roles below.

  • Led full lifecycle modernization and sustainment of Electronic Warfare Threat Presentation Systems (the reusable threat scenarios and mission threads presented to aircrews) across CONUS and OCONUS Navy Tactical Training Ranges, delivered on budget and schedule with outstanding QASP scores.
  • Executed clean transition of all systems and personnel, earning top marks on the government transition scorecard.

Live & Virtual Range Solutions SME (concurrent role)

Jan 2023 – Aug 2024
  • Architected technical solutions for Navy live and virtual training range pursuits across NCTE, NITE, and CTTR programs, contributing directly to $1B+ in contract wins.
  • Served as solutions architect for Army, Air Force, Navy, and USMC proposal teams. Developed compliant technical volumes, discriminating win themes, and customer-aligned solution narratives.

Lead Engineer, Directed Energy Systems Integration Lab (DESIL) (concurrent role)

Oct 2022 – Aug 2024
  • Stood up the U.S. Navy DESIL operations center and data systems at Point Mugu Sea Range and Naval Base Ventura County, Port Hueneme. Established standards that enabled initial directed energy weapon test events on the Pacific range complex.

Associate Principal Project Engineer, Navy Continuous Training Environment (NCTE)

Sep 2021 – Jan 2023
  • Built a dispersed engineering workforce from scratch, with recruitment and training programs that enabled 30+ projects to be delivered ahead of schedule and under budget within the first year.
  • Led multidisciplinary teams across EW, communications, IT, RF/microwave, systems, and software engineering. Reduced project overhead 18% through process reengineering.
  • Improved West Coast Navy Tactical Training Range portfolio efficiency 22% year over year across Fallon, SoCal, Arizona, Washington, California, and Guam operations.

Program Manager / West Coast Director, Navy Integrated Training Environment (NITE)

Sep 2020 – Sep 2021
  • Directed 700+ personnel executing an $896M Navy contract across the western United States. Integrated North Island and San Clemente Island to expand SoCal Range operational capability.
  • Improved cost performance and stakeholder satisfaction through process reengineering and a restructured communications cadence with Navy leadership.

Amentum / URS (AECOM) · Yuma, AZ

2010 – 2020

Operations Manager / Contract Site Manager, Combined Tactical Training Ranges

2015 – 2020
  • Led 123 multi-site contractors across the Southwest Region, managing IT/cyber, quality, safety, security, logistics, and operational requirements for U.S. Navy training ranges.
  • Negotiated and secured a 35-acre lease for an EW complex, centralizing operations for 50+ personnel and driving measurable cost reductions across the program.
  • Achieved a three-year zero-incident safety record totaling 90,773+ hours, the longest sustained period without a recordable incident in the program history.

Engineering Management Roles, URS / Northrop Grumman / Aerotek

2010 – 2015
  • Managed 115+ engineering projects valued from $100K to $1M each across enterprise IT, cybersecurity, EW, threat systems, RF/microwave, data tracking, telemetry, and communications.
  • Built technical integration credibility across EW, cyber, and range instrumentation that later supported enterprise-level capture and program leadership.

Early career

  • Epsilon Inc. · MCAS Yuma SIPRNET Administrator. Managed classified devices and networks and configured systems for cybersecurity compliance.
  • BAE Systems · U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground Engineering Technician. Supported Future Combat Systems XM1203 NLOS-C prototype test and live-fire integration.
XM1203 Non-Line-of-Sight Cannon (NLOS-C) prototype on a desert test range
The XM1203 NLOS-C, the Future Combat Systems 155mm howitzer I supported in prototype test and live-fire integration at Yuma Proving Ground.U.S. Army photo · Public domain
04 · Foundation

Education, service & affiliations

Education

  • Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.), Management National University · 2024 · with Distinction Doctoral research: project engineer work-related stressors and turnover intentions.
  • M.S., Management Information Security Lewis University · 2015
  • B.S., Software Engineering University of Phoenix · 2009

Military service

  • United States Marine Corps Veteran 1991 – 1997

Affiliations

  • AUSA
  • NDIA
  • ITEA
  • PMI
  • IEEE

05 · Let’s connect

Let’s talk about what comes next.

For executive and senior leadership conversations across defense growth, mission solutions, and AI.