Growth · HII
Contributed to $1B+ in wins
Architected the Navy live and virtual training range solutions behind NCTE, NITE, and CTTR, and wrote the winning technical proposal for the Army’s $379M LTRaC live training IDIQ.
Explore the HII rolesDr. Shane Turner
Senior Vice President, Solutions & Artificial Intelligence at Astrion
I lead Astrion’s enterprise AI initiative and cleared teams across defense growth and mission solutions, from hands-on land systems engineering to large-scale program delivery.
Growth · HII
Architected the Navy live and virtual training range solutions behind NCTE, NITE, and CTTR, and wrote the winning technical proposal for the Army’s $379M LTRaC live training IDIQ.
Explore the HII rolesDelivery · HII
Directed Navy training delivery across the western United States, expanding range capability and improving cost performance.
View program leadershipLand systems · Yuma
More than a decade fielding land-based threat and range systems, including threat radars, emitters, SA-6 and SA-8 SAM systems, and MANPADS, and modernizing the range equipment and infrastructure behind them.
View the range workInnovation · Astrion
Turned a legacy scheduling tool into an automated enterprise asset recognized by government proposal evaluators.
View the Astrion workEnterprise AI · Astrion
I lead Astrion’s enterprise AI initiative company-wide. I stood it up from nothing, launching shAIne, Astrion’s enterprise AI platform, with governance from the first month: reuse controls, output quality and explainability standards, and a role-based method for attributing the hours it saves. In that same month, agentic coding delivered a working Weekly Status Reporting tool in one week.
Programs get a repeatable way to adopt AI, review its outputs, and estimate its value with the assumptions in the open.
My career connects engineering, program leadership, and business growth. I have worked from live-fire prototype test and land-based threat systems through Navy range operations, major contract pursuits, and enterprise AI.
Today, I lead Astrion’s enterprise AI initiative company-wide, along with the data, evidence, analytics, and AI work for Layered Defense, Autonomous Warfare, and Integrated Fires, translating operational knowledge into mission solutions and customer-facing strategy.
Follow my careerFrom hands-on systems work to enterprise leadership. Full career history, including promotions and concurrent assignments.
Layered Defense, Autonomous Warfare & Integrated Fires Division
Promoted from Vice President, Multi-Domain Test & Evaluation.
Promoted from Director, Program Management.
Concurrent assignments (2022–2024): held alongside the Live & Virtual Range Solutions SME and DESIL Lead Engineer roles below.
Amentum (2020) · URS, an AECOM company (2014–2020) · Northrop Grumman (2011–2014) · Aerotek (2010–2011)
Held with URS, Northrop Grumman, and Aerotek on the same Yuma range programs.
I publish evidence-first analysis on defense data, AI, test and evaluation, and autonomy at st-dba.com. The standard is the one I hold at work: follow the evidence, test the assumption, and keep the argument tied to fielded results.
All analysisThirty medium unmanned vessels across three builders. The next test is whether they become one adaptable fleet.
Testing soldier and robot teams as a whole: recognizing bad advice, managing uncertainty, and recovering when automation drops out.
A new instruction requires machine-readable assurance evidence, continuous testing, and reusable authorization artifacts.
A practical framework for separating adoption metrics from quality-adjusted, auditable mission value.
06 · Let’s connect
For executive and senior leadership conversations across defense growth, mission solutions, and AI.
shane@st-dba.com · resume.st-dba.com
linkedin.com/in/drshaneturner