Rear Admiral Doug Sasse is a native of Flint, Michigan. He is a 1993 graduate of the United States Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering. He also holds a Master of Science in Operations Research from the Naval Postgraduate School and a Master of Art in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College

He served as a division officer aboard USS Deyo (DD 989) and assigned to Commander, Destroyer Squadron 20, completing deployments to the Mediterranean and North Atlantic. He later served as Weapons Officer and Combat Systems Officer on USS Hue City (CG 66), completing deployments to both U.S. 6th Fleet and U.S 5th Fleet in support of Operation Enduring Freedom

Sasse served as an Associate Fellow with the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Strategic Studies Group and as an Air Defense Instructor assigned to Surface Warfare Officer School Command in Newport, Rhode Island. His staff tours include Navy Reserve U.S. Forces Korea Det. 102; Navy Reserve Commander, Naval Forces Europe, Naval Forces Africa and U.S. Sixth Fleet Det. 802; Reserve Chief of Staff for Commander, Naval Surface Forces U.S. Pacific Fleet; and Reserve Vice Commander, U.S. Fourth Fleet.

His Command tours include Navy Reserve Commander, Destroyer Squadron 40 Det. B; Navy Reserve Commander, Naval Surface Forces Atlantic Det. C; Navy Reserve U.S. Fleet Forces Command Maritime and Air Operations Det. Fort Dix; Navy Reserve Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Squadron 2 and Reserve LCS Enterprise Director; and Navy Reserve U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command and U.S. 4th Fleet. He also mobilized as the Joint Operations Center Team Chief for Commander, U.S. Central Command Headquarters in support of Operational Noble Eagle. He is currently assigned as Director, Assessment Division (OPNAV N81)

Personal decorations include the Legion of Merit, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Navy Commendation Medal, Navy Achievement Medal, and various campaign and unit awards.

Dr. David L. Alderson is Professor and Chair of the Operations Research Department at the Naval Postgraduate School. He also serves as Founder and Executive Director for the NPS Center for Infrastructure Defense (www.nps.edu/cid) and Executive Director of the NPS Data Science and Analytics Group (www.nps.edu/data-sciences).

Over the last 25 years, Dr. Alderson's research has focused on the function and operation of critical infrastructures, with particular emphasis on how to invest limited resources to ensure efficient and resilient performance in the face of accidents, failures, natural disasters, or deliberate attacks. His research explores tradeoffs between efficiency, complexity, and fragility in a wide variety of public and private cyber-physical systems.

Dr. Alderson has been the Principal Investigator (PI) of sponsored research projects for the U.S. Navy, Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. 

Dr. Alderson’s teaching has focused primarily on computational methods for military operations research, with responsibility for courses associated with certificate programs for data science at NPS.

Dr. Alderson received his doctorate from Stanford University and his undergraduate degree from Princeton University. He has held research positions at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the University of California Los Angeles, the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and the Santa Fe Institute. He has extensive industry experience and has worked for several venture-back startup companies. His early career was spent developing technology at Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York City.

A complete list of publications and awards is available from his faculty webpage (https://faculty.nps.edu/dlalders/).