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Dr. Stephen H. Rapp was born in Huntingdon, PA, USA.  He was appointed to the U. S. Naval Academy graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Finance.  He became a Marine Officer specializing in armor, amphibious assault and space defense.  He supported combat operations in Beirut and Grenada and participated in combat during Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom.  He attended the Naval Postgraduate School graduating with a Master of Science in Operations Research, specializing in Engineering Optimization.  His thesis, a discrete network optimization for rapid mobilization won the MORS - Tisdale Award for “the thesis most likely to improve national defense” and later the INFORMS - Koopman Prize.
He is currently the lead scientist and technical specialist for supporting Army ground vehicle trade studies and applied mathematical research for improving tradespace analytics.  He is also, currently the Director for the MS in Systems Engineering at Wayne State University, teaching in the evenings on the web.