Hughes Award

Wayne P. Hughes Junior Analyst Award

In 2007, MORS established the Junior Analyst Award to recognize young analysts who are already making an impact on Operations Research. The award now bears the name of Wayne P. Hughes, FS, former Dean of the Graduate School of Operational and Information Sciences at the Naval Postgraduate School A candidate for an award may be nominated by a mentor, boss or colleague.  The submittor should give relevant information on no more than two pages, including the candidate’s date of birth, education, work experience, and reasons for the nomination in relation to the selection criteria.aval Postgraduate School.

Selection criteria:

• Nominees should be forty-years old or less as of 1 June the year of nomination and have been doing operations research for less than 10 years.
• Distinguished self by one or more of the following accomplishments:
  • Outstanding publication(s) highlighting their analyses
  • Development of significant new analysis
  • The use of research results in the solution off military problems

Winner

2010 - Captain Elwood T. Waddell, Jr.

Captain Waddell’s outstanding analytical skills, leadership, and ceaseless efforts resulted in major contributions to the effectiveness and success of multiple critical defense programs.  Captain Elwood developed significant new analytical methods and techniques that have made immediate and lasting impact on the community and in the solution of complex military problems.  He has authored dozens of outstanding publications that document new methods and utilize existing practices to solve complex military aviation and communications problems.  His work was vital to successful test planning, execution, and analysis in multiple high profile test programs designed to increase battlefield effectiveness and lethality, training future analysts and proving the value of operations research to warfighters and decision makers.   Captain Elwood’s superb efforts resulted in the development and validation of new operational research methods redefining battlefield operations and capabilities as well as in both developmental and operational test.