U.S. Navy Cmdr. Gabe Anseeuw this month became military assistant and executive staff director to Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, Department of Energy undersecretary for nuclear security and administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).
Anseeuw replaced Cmdr. Christopher Osborn, who was Gordon-Hagerty’s interim right-hand for about six months. Osborn filled in after Capt. Owen Travis retired from the Navy in August, ending his military service and his detail to the civilian NNSA: the DOE’s semiautonomous steward of the U.S. nuclear stockpile and the naval reactors that power the Navy’s surface vessels and submarines.
Like his predecessors, Anseeuw is a former nuclear submarine commander who has served on attack subs and on ballistic missile submarines that carry Trident II D5 missiles tipped with the NNSA’s W76 warheads. Before joining the NNSA to serve as Gordon-Hagerty’s military adviser, Anseeuw was special assistant for plans, policy, and training for Naval Reactors in Washington.
He was last deployed aboard a submarine in 2017, according to his LinkedIn profile.
