MORS Goals and Code of Ethics

The Society endeavors to:

• Understand and encourage responsiveness to the needs of the user of military operations research.
• Provide opportunities for professional interchange.
• Educate members on new techniques and approaches to analysis.
• Provide peer critique of analyses.
• Inform and advise decision makers on the potential use of military operations research.
• Encourage conduct consistent with high professional and ethical standards.
• Recognize outstanding contributions to military operations research.
• Assist in the accession and development of career analysts.
• Strive for a membership which is representative of the military operations research community.
• Preserve the heritage of military operations research.
• Preserve the role of MORS as a leader in the analytical community.
• Encourage the use of operations research in support of current military operations.

The Society promotes the following Code of Ethics for its members:

Military and National Security OR Professionals must aspire to be:

• Honest, open and trustworthy in all their relationships.
• Reliable and consistent in the conduct of assignments and responsibilities, always doing what is right rather than expedient.
• Objective, constructive and responsive in all work performed.
• Truthful, complete and accurate in what they say and write.
• Accountable for what they do and choose not to do.
• Respectful of the work of others, giving due credit and refraining from criticism of them unless warranted.
• Free from affiliation with others or with activities that would compromise them, their employers, or the Society.

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