David Keith Furchner

Hometown: Plymouth Meeting, PA

PSU Connection: Graduate, Staff/Faculty

PSU Graduation Year: 1972

Degree Type: Bachelors

Major of Study: Speech Communications

Memorable moment in your Penn State career: Helping to stand up a new operational unit within World Campus

Active Duty or Veteran: Veteran

Branch: Naval Reserve

Rank: Commander

Rate/MOS: Intelligence

Where/when did you serve: Norfolk, VA and various Northeastern regional Reserve Units from 1972 to 1998.

Awards: Navy Achievement, Navy Expeditionary, National Defense, Armed Forces Reserve (2X), Sharpshooter Marksmanship

What was your favorite military assignment/duty station and why? Norfolk, VA and various northeastern U.S. regional Naval Reserve Intelligence units. Directed Naval Reserve Intelligence units tasked with providing direct intelligence support to forces within the U.S. Atlantic Command in the form of current situation analysis, collection management, and long-range assessments and threat estimates. There I was provided the opportunity of working with dedicated professionals who rotated from active duty to reserve status to provide needed real/near time intelligence data to support various operational initiatives.

David Keith Furchner, Navy, Commander (ret), is a 1972 Penn State graduate majoring in speech communications. David was stationed in Norfolk, VA and various reserve unites in the Northeastern region. He directed Naval Reserve Intelligence units tasked with providing direct intelligence support to forces within the U.S. Atlantic Command in the form of current situation analysis, collection management and long-range assessments and threat estimates. He currently works at Penn State as the Director, Education Alliance – Business to Business, Military and Federal Government Sectors at Penn State University, World Campus. The Furchner family is a Penn State family. David met his wife at Penn State; all three grown children are Smeal College of Business Graduates; one son was on the Penn State Lacrosse team; and he is an avid Nittany Lion Club member.