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Vance R. Wanner Memorial Award
2004 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 2004:
David
M. Maddox
While simultaneously rising to the highest military rank in
the US Army, General Maddox was responsible for making Operations Research an
integral part of its planning and operations. During his career he conducted many OR studies to develop the Army’s
forces, equipment, and fighting doctrine. Some
of his early studies led to decisions to procure the Army’s “Big Five”
systems and to implement new Airland Battle doctrine, both of which were used to
prosecute Operation Desert Storm and other military operations successfully. Throughout his analytic career, General Maddox set the standard for the
highest quality OR analysis, and he pursued these standards even as a 4-star
General. While the CINCUSAREUR, he
actively directed and participated in the study to learn how to draw down U. S.
forces from 250,000 to 75,000 after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Although not the father of Army OR, when he became part of
the senior leadership General Maddox institutionalized the use of OR throughout
the Army. He established major
planning and analysis processes used by the Army to develop effective equipment
and forces. He formed the Army’s
first OR analysis command and he created the Army’s OR career field. If not the father, General Maddox was the prodigal son who made OR
integral to all of the Army’s planning and operations. His combined analytic activities and senior leadership were without peer.
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