Captain John J. Macaluso, USCG, is the Deputy Director of the Coast Guard’s Command, Control, Communications, Computers & Information Technology Service Center (C4ITSC). He graduated from the U. S. Coast Guard Academy in 1983 (BSEE), from Penn State in 1988 (MSEE), and from the Marine Corps Command & Staff College in 1998. He is a DHS Certified Acquisition Professional Program Manager - Level III.

Upon commissioning in 1983, he reported aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter UNIMAK (WHEC-379) home-ported in New Bedford, MA, as a student engineer, and he then served as the Damage Control Assistant. In 1985, he was transferred to the Ninth District in Cleveland, OH, as the Assistant Chief and Vessels Officer for the Electrical Engineering Branch. In 1988, he was assigned to the Receivers Section of the Electronics Engineering Center in Wildwood, NJ.

From 1991 to 1993 he served in Italy as the Coordinator of Chain Operations for the Mediterranean Sea Loran-C chain. He then served four years at Headquarters in Washington, DC as the Flag Quality Coordinator and Planning Officer for the Office of Navigation Safety and Waterway Services and for the Assistant Commandant for Operations. In 1998 was assigned to the Office of the Secretary of Transportation Radionavigation Policy Staff as the Coast Guard Liaison and the Chairman of the Policy and Implementation Team for the Nationwide Differential Global Positioning System.

From 2000 to 2003 he served as the Commanding Officer of the Electronic Systems Support Unit (ESU) in St. Louis, MO. From 2003 to 2005, he served as the Commanding Officer of the Loran Support Unit (LSU) in Wildwood, NJ.

From 2005 to 2009, he served as the Coast Guard's Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E) Program Manager and the principal RDT&E advisor to the Assistant Commandant for Acquisition.