Thursday, October 23, 2014

Captain Howie Ehret - the Cryptologic Community's Rickover (without the obnoxious behavior)

Howie's Shipmates - Rusty Smith, H Winsor Whiton & Jerome Rapin attend.
Captain Howie Ehret was one of five Cryptologists Added to NSA/CSS Cryptologic Hall of Honor

FORT MEADE, MD-Five "cryptologic greats" were inducted into the NSA/CSS Cryptologic Hall of Honor today at the National Cryptologic Museum (NCM). Rick Ledgett, Deputy Director of the National Security Agency, presided over the ceremony and highlighted the distinguished achievements of each of the inductees.  This is the only one that interests me.
  • Captain Howard Ehret: A modern pioneer in U.S. Naval cryptology - namely "Naval Cryptology's Rickover" - who brought state-of-the-art technology to naval operations and standardized naval cryptologic work roles and education to change the culture of naval cryptology and reduce the threat of enemies to the U.S.
To learn more about this legendary figure, I have blogged about him:



4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is that Barry Ketterer back there?

NSMA said...

That is Barry.

Anonymous said...

I never heard of the Captain before. I'd like to read what he actually did. Is that info available somewhere?

Anonymous said...

Must have been a man worth knowing.