Vance R. Wanner Memorial Award
1999 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 1999:
Donald
B. Rice
Who
has promoted the application of analytical thought to defense policy, planning
and programming throughout his career. As the President and Chief Executive
Officer of RAND from 1972 to 1989, he was responsible for ensuring that
institution’s intellectual and financial health. In this way, and through his
selection and promotion of key individuals, he provided distinguished service to
the profession of military operations research. Before joining RAND he had a
career as a military operations researcher, educator and manager at the Naval
Post Graduate School and in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. After
completing his tour of duty at RAND, he served as Secretary of the Air Force for
four years where he rigorously applied the principles of analytical thought to
defense decision making and promoted the career of the many individuals who have
made and who continue to make contributions in that field.
