MILITARY
OPERATIONS RESEARCH SOCIETY
Operations
Research Methods for Information
Operations
9-11
April 2002, Booz Allen and Hamilton, McLean Virginia
Dear Colleague,
In
today’s world of multiple agents, national and transnational players operating
in an environment that lacks a single superpower threat, the United States must
develop and maintain the ability to conduct operations in the information realm
while defending against a myriad of threats to our own critical information
infrastructures. Information is a strategic resource that is vital to national
security and well being. Joint Doctrine 3-13 defines Information Operations (IO)
as actions taken to affect an adversary’s information and information systems
while defending one’s own information and information systems. This definition
covers not only crisis or conflict driven information warfare, but also a wider
set of objectives and goals that occur on a continual basis, whether in
peacetime or crisis. These goals include offensive, defensive, and assurance
considerations for information, information systems, and information processes.
Information Operations covers the spectrum from hardware, software, and
“wetware” (human) issues of offense, defense, assurance and response. The
recent Presidential Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection highlights
how these issues affect not only the military, but also industry, government,
and citizens in general.
The Military Operations Research Society has organized a workshop
entitled "Operations Research Methods for Information Operations: A
Battlespace of the 21st Century." The objective of this workshop is to increase the
awareness of the relationship between IO and OR and to enhance the integration
of that relationship. The overall
goal is to provide information and insight that will aid the OR analyst in
supporting the IO operator. For
further discussion of the workshop, please read the
enclosed Terms of Reference.
This workshop will be held in
April 2002 dates
and location to be determined. A continental
breakfast will be available each day. You
are invited to apply to participate in this special meeting.
Attendance will be limited by the space available.
A specific number of slots will be reserved for issue leaders, working
group chairs, and synthesis group members.
Other participants will be selected using a combination of the criteria
below:
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Distribution
across issue areas
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Distribution
across the segments of the OR community
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Broad
experience in providing quick response analysis
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Specific
experience in framing issues for analysis.
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An
application form to attend the workshop is enclosed.
Registration fees are: US
Federal Government -
$200; All others -
$400. There will be a catered buffet lunch each day.
The cost of the lunches is $10 per day. Please include lunch fees with
your registration fees. In
addition, please fill out the attached Working Group Preference Form and return
it with your application form.
The
workshop will be at the SECRET level with participation limited to US citizens
with SECRET clearances and need-to-know certified. You must fill out a copy of
the MORS Personal Security Form and FAX it to MORS at 703-751-8171, or mail it
to us at 101 S. Whiting Street, Suite 202, Alexandria, VA
22304.
If
you make a presentation, you need to fill out a Disclosure Form and submit it to
the MORS Office. A Disclosure Form is attached.
Also enclosed is a copy of the Terms of Reference and a Draft Agenda.
For
more information about this workshop, you can visit the MORS web site at
“www.mors.org” or contact the MORS office by phone at (703) 751-7290, by FAX
at (703) 751-8171, or email at morsoffice@aol.com
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Operations
Research Methods for Information Operations - Terms of Reference
Operations
Research Methods for Information Operations - Read Aheads
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