CAPT Christopher Eng was commissioned as a submarine officer through Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps in 1998. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998 with a Bachelor of Science in computer science and from Old Dominion University in 2016 with a Master of Engineering Management. He transferred to the cryptologic warfare community in 2002.
His operational assignments include duty as the main propulsion assistant and assistant weapons officer aboard USS Santa Fe (SSN 763) homeported in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, from 2001 to 2002; as fleet signals intelligence warfare officer and ship’s signal exploitation space division officer on the staff of U.S. 7th Fleet, aboard USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) homeported in Yokosuka, Japan, from 2005 to 2007; and as a tactical information operations officer with Naval Special Warfare Special Reconnaissance Team 1 from 2007 to 2010, deploying with Naval Special Warfare Squadron 7 to Iraq and Afghanistan in 2009 as the N3X targeting officer and Cross Functional Troop 7 commander.