Meet mark

Rear Admiral Mark Hugel, USN (retired) was commissioned in 1977 after earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Systems Engineering from the United States Naval Academy. He was accepted by Admiral Rickover into the Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program and was subsequently assigned to sea tours in nuclear powered aircraft carriers and a guided missile cruiser. Early in his Navy career, he was designated a Surface Warfare Officer and, eventually, he became a Navy Engineering Duty Officer. In 1992, Mark completed his graduate education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning a Master of Science degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, and a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.

He served in acquisition, shipbuilding and ship maintenance tours in Newport News, Virginia and Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, VA. In his third tour of duty at Norfolk Naval Shipyard he became the 100th Shipyard Commander.

After promotion to Flag rank, he served on the Chief of Naval Operations staff in the Pentagon, and his last active duty assignment was as Deputy Commander for Logistics, Maintenance and Industrial Operations at the Naval Sea Systems Command, where he oversaw more than 26,000 civil service employees in the nation’s shipyards. After retiring from the Navy in 2009, he returned to Portsmouth and began his employment with CACI International, Inc. where he was selected to lead CACI’s Norfolk, Virginia office. During his tenure at CACI, he has been the Senior Vice President managing Navy logistics, and subsequently the company’s entire Logistics and Materiel Readiness market.

He and his wife, Luana, built their first home in Portsmouth in 1986 and returned there when he retired from the Navy in 2009. In 2016, they moved to their current home in the Sterling Point section of Churchland. Mark represents Portsmouth on the Tidewater Community College Board of Directors and is also a board member of The Up Center.