AFCEA/USNI WEST 2026

William Fong
JBPHH 5G Initiative Network Testbed Design Lead
U.S. Navy


William Fong is an Engineer for the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific (NIWC PAC) in Hawaii in the Indo-Pacific Department. Currently, William is leading research and development efforts to deploy 5G network testbeds for the Department of Defense (DoD) to military bases on Oahu and at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island (NASWI) as a part of the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPHH) 5G Initiative sponsored by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense Research and Engineering (OUSD R&E) 5G/FutureG Program which started in June 2020. As a part of this work, William is understanding the Warfighter to deliver innovative solutions by integrating: commercial/private 5G networks to meet DoD missions, distributed Mobile Access Edge Compute (MEC) with cloud native networking, and Open Radio Access Networks (ORAN) with Software Defined Radios (SDR). William received his Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) and his Master's in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).

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