Ed Cashman is the dean of the College of Maritime Operational Warfare and a retired Surface Warfare Officer. A native of Brockton, Massachusetts, he graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987 with a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering and received his commission through Officer Candidate School in 1988. His career includes command assignments of an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the Western Pacific, a destroyer squadron in the Arabian Gulf, a joint task force, and Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 operating across the North Atlantic.