U.S. Navy officials have named Rear Adm. (lower half) John W. Korka to be the next leader of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command and the Navy’s chief of civil engineers. NAVFAC is responsible for planning, designing and building the Navy’s shore facilities worldwide. (View bio here.)
Korka—whose new assignment was announced by Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer and Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. John Richardson, on May 8—has been commander of NAVFAC Pacific and director, fleet civil engineer for the Pacific Fleet, based in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, since October 2015.