Dr. Paul Zablocky
Dr. Paul Zablocky
VP of Innovation and Advanced Technology Development
Dr. Paul Zablocky joined Pacific Defense in June of 2025 as Vice President of Innovation and Advanced Technology Development after a distinguished 25-year career with the United States Government (USG). After beginning his career as an officer in the Navy, Paul transitioned to a civilian USG career, beginning with the U.S. Army’s Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate developing and fielding electronic warfare capabilities for Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He went on to lead the Joint Counter Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) Electronic Warfare (JCREW) Techniques Working Group and The Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization’s (JIEDDO’s) advanced threat test protocol development.
His experience in Electronic Warfare and defeating Radio Controlled IEDs led to his role as the Army’s Senior Research Scientist (ST) for EW. He then led the Army’s Space and Terrestrial Communication Directorate, the Army’s Intelligence Warfare Directorate, and served as a Division Director in the Office of Naval Research’s (ONR’s) Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare Department. While at ONR, Paul established the Navy’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) portfolio investment strategy with the Chief of Naval Research.
A Program Management position at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the Strategic Technologies Office followed, where he developed and managed DARPA’s System of Systems Enhanced Small Unit (SESU) Program. The program focused on command and control that enabled distributed mission planning and Counter-Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) missions leveraging swarms of low-cost, autonomous, unmanned air and ground platforms equipped with appropriate sensors and effectors.
Following DARPA, Paul accepted the role of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Multi-Domain Joint Operations under the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. There he oversaw the annual selection of approximately $750M of prototyping investment and technology transition in support of the Deputy Secretary of Defense’s (DSD’s) Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve (RDER) and the Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies (APFIT). He led OUSD(R&E)’s Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) and Assured and Alternate Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (A2PNT) activities working closely with Services and Combatant Commands, and other Office of the Secretary of Defense organizations to advise the Department on investments.
Paul has a Professional Master of Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts, a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Science in Engineering from the University of Central Florida, and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Physics from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
He enjoys watersports, hiking, and camping in his free time.
