Vance R. Wanner Memorial Award
2000 Recipient
Citation
Military operations research contributes effectively
to the nation’s security to the degree that it meets the evolving needs of
defense and conforms to the highest standards of scientific quality and
timeliness. To grant recognition to individual practitioners who have made
outstanding contributions to the progress of this advancing profession. The
Military Operations Research Society has established the Vance R. Wanner
Memorial Award. The Directors of MORS have selected, for this award in 2000:
Seymour
J. Deitchman
Seymour
J. Deitchman is one of the nation's most accomplished and well regarded
analysts of defense issues. He is renowned for his ability to integrate the multiple dimensions of problems into
a form that is readable, understandable, and actionable. In doing so, he exemplifies the highest
standards of operations research, which include a passion for clear thinking,
creative option development, objective assessment, sound analysis, integrity,
and depiction of conclusions in a form that policy makers can use. He has served in private industry, in the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Office of the Secretary of
Defense, as vice president for programs at the Institute for Defense Analyses,
and as a member of U.S. Government and NATO advisory panels. Since 1982 he has
served as a member and then as a Consultant and Special Advisor to the Naval
Studies Board, National Research Council. During his career, Seymour Deitchman
has conducted detailed technical analyses, managed research and development
programs, been a corporate research officer, written distinguished books
including one "On Being A Superpower: and not knowing what to do about
it" published in January 2000, and he has been the synthesizer on
many studies.
