William Pape

About William Pape

I serve as a senior advisor at Penn State Applied Research Laboratory, where I support DoD executive leadership with acquisition strategy and applied cybersecurity analytics for the DOD |IC. I bring a Red Team orientation that emphasizes adversary realism and measurable risk reduction.I retired as a U.S. Navy Special Operations officer. I pursue a Doctor of Engineering in Cybersecurity Analytics at George Washington University, hold an MBA from Rollins College (Crummer) and a B.S. from the University of Central Florida, and completed executive programs at Wharton, MIT Sloan, and Harvard Kennedy. Clearance: TS/SCI (active)+ CI Polygraph.• DAWIA PM Level acquisition governance, requirements traceability, execution discipline• Red Team + detection engineering: adversary emulation, telemetry-driven defense• AI/ML analytics: time-series anomaly detection, uncertainty quantification• Secure systems: Zero Trust, supply-chain risk, critical infrastructure resiliencehttps://github.com/SARATOGAMarine

Experience

1. Principal Engineering Program Manager

   The Applied Research Laboratory at Penn State University

   Mar 2024 — Present · Annapolis Junction, MD, US

   Provide strategic-level subject matter and domain expertise on intelligence, information warfare, and cyber threats, risks, operations, capabilities and acquisitions. Work hand-in-hand with the sponsor to provide high-quality assessments as well as operational and technical solutions to wide ranging information warfare and cyber issues affecting the Department of Defense, US Cyber Command, and Intelligence Community missions to enable and protect the warfighter. Directly involved with, or overseeing, the design of technical intelligence, information warfare, and cyber program strategies in collaborative engagements with sponsor organizations, as well as overseeing technical project implementation and execution. Interact with national security sponsors.

Education

• The Wharton School

  Executive Certificate, Business Analytics: From Data to Insights

• Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College

  MBA, Business Administration and Management, General

• Harvard Kennedy School

  Executive Certificate, Cybersecurity:The Intersection of Policy and Technology

• University of Central Florida

  Bachelor's Degree, Manufacturing Engineering Technology

• MIT Sloan Executive Education

  Executive Certificate, Artificial Intelligence - Implications for Business Strategy

• The George Washington University - School of Engineering & Applied Science

  Doctor of Engineering, Cybersecurity Analytics