After graduating from the Coast Guard Academy in 1999, LCDR Anthony Hawes served as a Deck Watch Officer and Law Enforcement Officer on USCGC Sweetbrier in Cordova, Alaska. During this tour, he maintained Aids to Navigation and enforced fisheries law in the vicinity of Prince William Sound, Alaska. After earning a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, LCDR Hawes served as the Chief of the Engineering Development Branch at the Coast Guard Loran Support Unit (LSU) in Wildwood, New Jersey. At LSU, he managed all engineering for a greatly improved version of the Loran navigation system, called e-Loran, before the termination of Loran entirely. LCDR Hawes was then assigned to Coast Guard Headquarters, where he managed large C4IT projects for Search and Rescue, Law Enforcement missions. In 2010, LCDR Hawes was assigned to teach Electrical Engineering at the Coast Guard Academy.  

• M.S.E.E., Naval Postgraduate School, September 2003
• B.S.E.E., U.S. Coast Guard Academy, May 1999

• Electrical Circuits and Machines

• Professional Engineer
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)