Daniel Gressang

Dr. Gressang is an Assistant Professor of Security Studies and International Affairs at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida. Prior to joining ERAU, Dr. Gressang spent 31 years with the National Security Agency, where his last position was Government Director of the Center for Advanced Study of Language. Other positions he held at NSA included Strategy, Policy, and Engagement Lead in the Terrorist Watchlisting Division Branch Chief in the Watchlisting Division NSA program manager for the Intelligence Community Advanced Analyst Program and, Curriculum Manager for the Analytic Skills curriculum at the NSA's National Cryptologic School. Dr. Gressang’s research has focused on terrorist and insurgent efforts to build and maintain supportive constituencies through verbal and non-verbal messaging, radicalization processes, and terrorist use of weapons of mass destruction. Other research areas pursued include intelligence analysis and methodologies and their application across a range of ambiguous and complex situations, understanding and minimizing uncertainty in strategic warning, and applications of complexity and complex systems analysis to intelligence and national security.