Rob Tye joined Siemens Government Technologies in October 2012.  As Director, Business Development he is responsible for growing/implementing US military depot readiness, leading efforts to create digital twins of the Naval Shipyards, Air Depots, and military depots.  Until September 2017, he was responsible for growing services in the Industry, Energy and Cities & Infrastructure sectors, integral to Siemens Industries growth in the federal market.

Rob brings to Siemens over 25 years of experience with the US Navy as a retired Navy Captain, Civil Engineer Corps officer who has worked infrastructure, energy and environmental programs.  From  2010 to 2012, at the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Energy, Installations & Environment) he was responsible for obtaining the Department of Navy’s $13 billion annual budget for shore infrastructure.  From 2009 to 2010, he was the Guam Operations Officer for Naval Facilities Engineering Command, as part of a team with the US Marine Corps, Government of Guam, Government of Japan, and many federal agencies to relocate 4,700 Marines from Okinawa to Guam.  

From 2008 to 2009, then CDR Tye was deployed to the Iraqi Navy Base at Umm Qasr, Iraq, and served as the Naval Base Development Officer for both the Iraqi Commodore, and the coalition.  

From 2005 to 2008, then CDR Tye was the Department of Navy’s Congressional liaison for shore infrastructure to the Appropriations sub-committees. 

His previous tours include the Navy’s 2005 Base Realignment and Closure office,  the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, the Public Works Center, Washington D.C., the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head, Maryland, Naval Air Facility Adak, Alaska, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion THREE, Long Beach Naval Shipyard and Naval Security Group Activity Northwest, in Chesapeake, Virginia.   

Rob holds a Masters and Bachelors of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara and is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of California.  He is married to the former Ms. Melina Kendrick of Willows, California, a graduate of Texas A&M with a B.S. in Bio-chemistry.