Strengthening Defense Intelligence

US Air Force Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Richard O’Lear, Co-Chair, Defense Science Board Task Force on Defense Intelligence

With President Obama declaring a troop drawdown in Afghanistan and counterinsurgency efforts there coming under question, a Defense Department report issued earlier this year sheds welcome light. In April, the Defense Science Board this year issued a peering report into ways that the intelligence community can improve its efforts. The report follows a 2009 report by the board recommending that the Department of Defense make better use of O.R. in intelligence. Hear the co-chairman of the task force that wrote both reports explain their importance.

http://www.scienceofbetter.org/podcast/olear.html

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Congrats to 2010 MAS Award Winners!

Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Military Applications :Greg Parlier (MAS President), David Myers (Award Recipient), Seth Bonder (Award Sponsor),Mark Karwan (Professor of Award Recipient), Ed Pohl (Past MAS President), Pat Driscol (Past MAS President)

Military Applications Society 2009 Koopman Prize: Greg Parlier (MAS President), Moshe Kress (Award Recipient), Roberto Szechtman (Award Recipient), Ed Pohl (Past MAS President), Pat Driscol (Past MAS President)

2009 J. Steinhardt Prize:Greg Parlier (MAS President), Wayne P. Hughes Jr. (Award Recipient, not pictured), Alan R. Washburn (Award Recipient), Warren Sutton (CNA Representative), Ed Pohl (Past MAS President), Pat Driscol (Past MAS President)

MORS Thank-You Award to Pat Driscoll:Krista Paternostro (CEO MORS), Pat Driscoll (Outgoing MAS President), Kirk Michealson (Past MORS President), Ed Pohl (Past MAS President), Dean Hartley (Past MAS President)

MAS "Last Stand" for presenting and attending the last scheduled MAS briefs of the conference.

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MAS COUNCIL POSITION ELECTION RESULTS:

Congratulations!

MAS Vice-President/President-Elect Bill Fox, Professor in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey

MAS Council Member LTC Doug Matty, US Army, currently a student at the US Army War College and recently anointed with his PhD from MIT

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Find out how OR helps the most powerful military person in the United States, Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff. In an exclusive podcast interview with INFORMS, Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gives his unique take, as a recipient of a master's degree in O.R., on operations research. Hear him talk about his application of O.R. to high-level Pentagon decision making, the role of O.R. in programs for disabled veterans, and his concerns about well-analyzed information and intelligence reaching his desk. An audio podcast, video excerpt, and the complete 27-minute video are available at www.scienceofbetter.org/podcast.

Blog On: OR/MS Today Editor Writes About Joint Chiefs Chair During the course of his lengthy career as a naval officer and now as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen has been bombarded with military intelligence and information - some of it good, some of it useless - but perhaps the worst advice he ever received came 25 years ago when he was anxious to pursue a master's degree in operations research at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA ...Keep reading

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