Dr Buettner served 10 years as Naval Nuclear Propulsion Plant Operator while earning his Associate’s and Bachelor’s degrees. He holds a Master of Science in Systems Engineering degree from the Naval Postgraduate School and a Doctorate degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University. From 2003 to 2005, Dr. Buettner served on the faculty at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) and was the Information Operations Chair. He is the Chair of Technical Operations, in which he liaisons between NPS and the Joint Staff J39.He is the Principal Investigator for multiple research projects with budgets exceeding $3 million dollars a year, including the TNT, RELIEF, and JIFX projects. http://faculty.nps.edu/rrbuettn/about.html