Improving Cooperation Among Nations in Irregular Warfare Analysis
Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, CA, USA
11-13 December 2007

Dear Colleague:

The Military Operations Research Society has organized a Workshop entitled Improving Cooperation Among Nations in Irregular Warfare Analysis. This workshop will be held December 11-13, 2007 at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA.    

The purpose of this workshop is two-fold:

There will be an optional pre-conference session on Monday, December 10.  An Agent Based Modeling Users Group meeting will be held, and participants in the IW workshop are welcome to participate.

The workshop itself will begin on Tuesday, December 11 in Plenary Session.  After the Keynote Address, a senior panel will be held discussing irregular warfare analysis activities in each participant’s country.  Representatives from numerous countries have been invited to participate in this panel and to present a brief overview of IW analysis activities in their country.

The workshop will then break into four working groups that will meet for roughly two days.  Each working group session will be focused on an aspect of Irregular Warfare. Each working group will suggest and identify opportunities for future collaboration. The working groups are:

Attendees are invited to present a paper in any of the working groups, but presenting a paper is not a requirement for being able to attend. Working group leads will review requests to present research, develop their program, and contact selected presenters with further details on administrative requirements.

A few members of the COIN and SSTRO working groups will separate from the main group.  Participants will be divided into teams to play and then assess an unclassified scenario.  We are interested in gathering any insights you might be able to offer on developing and orchestrating irregular warfare scenarios and wargames.  You are invited to send representatives to participate in the wargames.

The Workshop will be held in English and translators will not be provided.

Conference registration fees are:  Entire Workshop (11 -13 December) – US Federal Government – Member - $575; Non-Member - $640. Non-US Government – Member - $675; Non-Member - $750.  Fees for one-day only (11 December) are:  Members - $325; Non-Members - $375. 

Attendees will be able to purchase lunch at one of several Club Del Monte facilities on campus.

We have reserved a block of rooms at the Hyatt Regency Monterey, 1 Old Golf Course Rd, Monterey, CA 93940, Phone 831-372-1234.  The hotel is within walking distance of the Naval Postgraduate School campus and the workshop.  Rooms in the MORS block are $125 + $10 Amenity Fee + tax.  Hotel reservations are the responsibility of each individual.  To make a reservation, either call the hotel or go on-line to http://monterey.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp.  Identify yourself as an attendee at the MORS Workshop to insure that you get the Military Operations Research Society rate.

If you make a presentation, you need to fill out a Disclosure Form (Form 712 AU or BU) and submit it to the MORS Office. A Disclosure Form is attached.   All presentations must be certified to be: Unclassified, Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited, and Exempt from U.S. export licensing and other export approvals under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (22 CFR 120 et seq.).

For more information about this workshop, you can contact the MORS office by phone at (703) 933-9070, by FAX at (703) 933-9066, or email at morsoffice@mors.org. 

FOREIGN VISITORS PLEASE NOTE:  Naval Postgraduate School has coordination requirements for visitors from non-U.S. countries.  Each individual who wants to attend the Workshop must do so as an official representative of his or her country.  In accordance with NAVPGSCOL Instruction 5510.1E, prospective attendees must contact the Defense Attaché at his or her embassy in Washington, DC, and ask that a Standard International Visit Request to attend a MORS Workshop at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, be submitted through the Navy International Programs Office.  That office will, in turn, forward the Foreign Visit Request (FVR) to NPS for approval.  Prospective non-US participants are encouraged to submit this paperwork early. NPS will provide foreign visitor escorts using site staff, students or faculty, or other U.S. participants.

For more information about the Naval Postgraduate School, you can go to http://www.nps.edu.

For more information on visiting Monterey, California, you can go to http://www.monterey.org. 

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