Daniel "Dan" Jung

Daniel “Dan” Jung
Acting Deputy Director and Senior Strategist, HASS COE (Former)

Dan Jung was the Acting Deputy Director and a Senior Strategist at the USDOT Highly Automated Systems Safety Center of Excellence (HASS COE). He was on detail at HASS COE from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Aviation Safety International team. Dan is a senior foreign affairs specialist with 16 years of experience at the FAA and eight years of experience in international nuclear nonproliferation programs at the Department of Energy (DOE). At the FAA, he has held various management and staff positions in the Office of Aviation Safety front office and the Flight Standards Service, as well as details to the FAA Administrator's Strategic Initiatives Group and as the FAA representative to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). He has worked on various nuclear nonproliferation activities at DOE by leading programs that support peaceful uses of nuclear technologies as well as detection, protection, disposition, and repatriation of enriched nuclear and radiological materials. In his current position as a senior foreign affairs specialist, he champions a corporate Aviation Safety approach for international engagements and strategies with a focus on ICAO. He has been the lead USG representative to the ICAO Global Aviation Safety Plan for over 12 years. Dan received an M.A. in International Studies from the University of Washington and a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Arizona State University.