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A Navy Commander and nuclear-weapons-trained fighter pilot, Dave served as the Strike Operations Officer for the Persian Gulf during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. He went on to lead classified defense programs and test-pilot new F-18s. He's sailed around the world, visited over 30 countries, been 10 miles above the earth, 600 feet below the Atlantic ... and survived hundreds of his OWN carrier landings. Dave holds engineering degrees from Cornell and the University of Michigan with post graduate work in astrophysics, human factors and statistics.
After a close friend was killed during a nighttime low-altitude mission, Dave discovered that 60 percent of all tactical jet fatalities are pilots literally flying into the ground. He shifted his career to the flight test side of the Navy. Working with the Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory, he developed an artificial horizon altitude warning system designed to “scare” pilots into reacting when too close to the ground. The warning system received a government patent and was ranked #1 for DARPA funding.
After a 20-year Navy career, he realized pilots aren’t the only ones who are at risk of “hitting the ground.” He studied the most likely global disasters and recruited an advisory board of renowned experts that includes astronauts, astrophysicists, an admiral, meteorologist, CIA agent, AI expert and special forces. From this, he created the Fuzed Trilogy, a fictional series that highlights the top global threats facing us but also proposes real solutions. He did the TED talk, “How Do We Prevent Our Inevitable Extinction," and the trilogy is currently being developed into a TV mini-series. Most recently, he wrote “Disaster Prepping for Dummies” for the global, local and personal disasters that we can't prevent.
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