Mr. Jacob Glassman is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of War for Science and Technology (S&T) Foundations in the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering (OUSW(R&E)). He is responsible for overseeing all foundational initiatives within the Department of War S&T Enterprise.

As a champion of the DoW S&T Enterprise, Mr. Glassman oversees the defense research laboratories and warfare/engineering centers, the Department’s federally funded research and development centers and university affiliated research centers, and DoW's basic research investments. The last include university research grants, education and workforce development programs (including DoW’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-serving Institutions Program), and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics initiatives, as well as the Department’s Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs. As advocate for the Department’s S&T workforce, Mr. Glassman is responsible for the more than 63,000 scientists and engineers who work in over 60 DoW laboratories, warfare centers, and engineering centers across 22 states and the District of Columbia. He also oversees the Department’s technical interchange between Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States (Five Eyes).

Mr. Glassman comes to OUSW(R&E) from the Department of the Navy, where he served most recently as the Senior Technical Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development, and Acquisition, responsible for implementation of modular open system architecture and artificial intelligence. Before that, he filled roles as the Director of Advanced Capabilities for the Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike Program and as a program manager in the Department’s Strategic Capabilities Office, responsible for transitioning AI and unmanned systems technologies to the warfighter.

Mr. Glassman’s Navy S&T credentials are deep in the undersea domain. He was the program lead for Team Submarine Project Turing, responsible for rapidly introducing AI into the undersea domain, and served as the assistant program manager for Submarine Combat Future Development and the Payload Control System in Program Executive Office Submarine, Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA). In his future development portfolio, he was the program manager for the Submarine Launched Unmanned Aerial System, providing command and control as well as a virtual twin combat system for the U.S. and Australian submarine forces.

In his first job with the Navy, Mr. Glassman was a co-op at Lockheed Martin Moorestown while pursuing undergraduate studies at Drexel University in Philadelphia. He holds a bachelor of science in computer engineering from Drexel, a master of science in systems engineering from The George Washington University, and a master of business administration from the University of Maryland; he is completing a masters of arts in strategic studies at the Naval War College.

Mr. Glassman has received several NAVSEA awards, including a NAVSEA Innovation Award. He was recognized as Engineer of the Year (2020) by the American Society of Naval Engineers and has been published by the Naval Submarine League on “Combat Systems of the Future.”