Dr. William Bundy Passes — Professor at Naval War College, Banking Executive and Former DOT Director
Monday, December 16, 2019
William Bundy has passed. The former top-level executive at Fleet/Bank Boston had a distinguished career in the United States Navy, and served as the Director of Transportation in Rhode Island.
Most recently, he served as Associate Provost for Warfighting Research and Development in the Office of the Provost at the U.S.Naval War College.
In February 2018, Bundy appeared on GoLocal LIVE where he spoke about Sea Hunter, after the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) had just recently completed trials of the world’s largest unmanned ship.
The vessel demonstrator, which was tested as part of the agency’s Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) program, has officially been transferred to the Office of Naval Research (ONR) for further development.
Bundy spoke to the uses of unmanned ships such as Sea Hunter, and how questions continue to arise as to the use of such technology -- and how an "integrated" approach of manned and unmanned technology will likely be the future.
According to his official biography at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport:
Dr. Bundy served in the Navy for more than 30 years prior to returning to the Naval War College as a Center for Naval Warfare Studies (CNWS) faculty member.
He led warfighting concept development and advanced research projects that have been deployed in the Fleet and the Joint Force.
Dr. Bundy created the initial concept of operations for Navy Ballistic Missile Defense, warfighting concepts for the Ohio Class Guided Missile Submarine and recently contributed to the introduction of Distributed Lethality in the Navy. He has mentored more than 330 war college graduate research students.
