Marc Sasseville, Executive Director of the Rapid Prototyping Research Center at George Mason University

Marc Sasseville is the Executive Director of the Rapid Prototyping Research Center at George Mason University. As a retired Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force, he has grown and led small, medium, and large organizations during his 39-year career. In his last assignment, he served as the Vice Chief of the National Guard Bureau during which time he actively participated in the Department’s primary governance mechanisms. Previous to that, he was ‘triple-hatted’ as Commander, of Continental US North American Defense Region, Commander Air Forces Northern, and Commander First Air Force, where he was responsible for deploying and employing air defense and general-purpose capabilities to meet the challenges of peacetime air sovereignty, wartime defense, and man-made/natural disasters in support of North America. He held a variety of additional assignments including command at the numbered air force, wing, group, and squadron levels, and served as a defense attaché. His operational history includes assignments in the US, Europe and in the Pacific theaters, and experience in defense support to civil authorities/domestic operations, test and evaluation, nuclear operations, air defense, and combat operations. In civilian life, he flew for Atlas Airlines and Delta Airlines. Marc graduated the United States Air Force Academy and Embry-Riddle University, is an adjunct senior researcher with RAND, serves as a director and advisor on several boards, and is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations.