Dr. Michael VanPutte, Ph.D., CISSP
Program Manager,
DARPA/Strategic Technology Office

Dr. VanPutte joined the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 2006 as a Program Manager in the Strategic Technology Office.  Dr. VanPutte conceptualizes, develops and manages new high-risk, high payoff research and development programs for the Department of Defense.  His interests lie primarily in the areas of information assurance and computer network operations, secure computing, artificial intelligence, and multi-agent systems.  He is also interested in military combat diving and technical diving technologies.

Dr. VanPutte retired from the Army after twenty years of service in September 2008; he served 7 years as a combat engineer officer and 13 years as a computer systems engineer.  From 2004 to 2006, he was the Deputy Director of Operations and Chief, Strategic Defense Operations at the Joint Task Force - Global Network Operations, U.S. Strategic Command, responsible for improving the strategic posture and responding to cyber intrusions in DoD networks.  From 2002 to 2004, he was the Chief, Technical Analysis Branch, responsible for the analysis of new threats and counter measures to DoD networks.  From 1997 to 1999, Dr. VanPutte was the Chief, Knowledge Engineering Group, at the Army War College, where he developed state of the art computer models, simulations and decision support tools to support strategic wargames, seminars, strategic decision-making processes, education programs, and administrative systems.  He was the primary investigator on an intelligent agent system to simulate the monitoring of national critical infrastructures to detect, analyze, identify, and correlate information and provide warnings of information-based warfare attacks.

Dr. VanPutte holds a BS in Management Information Systems from The Ohio State University, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School.

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