Dave Tremper

Dave Tremper is currently serving as the DASD for Acquisition Integration and Interoperability (AI2), a position he has held since October 2022. In this position, he is responsible for deriving cross-service strategies for the development, acquisition and fielding of joint force system-of-systems capabilities in support of the Combatant Commanders’ joint operational needs. Dave was appointed to the Senior Executive Service (SES) in June 2020 as the Director for Electronic Warfare (EW) in OUSD (A&S). In this prior role, he was the U.S. Department of Defense’s senior leader providing guidance and advocacy for U.S. development and acquisition of EW capabilities and systems. Prior to coming to the Pentagon, Mr. Tremper served as a program manager at the Defense Applied Research Project Agency (DARPA) from 2017-2020 and at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) from 2008-2017. Within both organizations he created and managed applied research programs in the areas of Electronic Warfare, Counter-Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C-ISR) and Positioning, Navigation and Timekeeping (PNT) for both stand-alone and networked systems applications. He led the development and successful transition of new capabilities into ships, submarines, aircraft and ground vehicles for anti-ship missile defense (ASMD), C-ISR, suppression of enemy air defense (SEAD), counter-improvised explosive device (C-IED), and platform protection, including both manned and unmanned platforms.