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Military
Operations Research Society The First Military
Operations Research Symposium (MORS), sponsored by the Office of Naval Research
(ONR) - Pasadena, was held at Corona Naval Ordnance Lab, Corona, California in
August 1957. The subject was Air Defense; 83 scientists attended. This and
subsequent early meetings were oriented to fulfill the needs of the Operations
Research Community on the West Coast. Starting with the Eighth MORS the Symposia
became nationally oriented, joint-service meetings. The first national Symposium
was the Ninth MORS held at Fort Monroe, Virginia in April 1962. From the First
through the 10th MORS there was no formal organization to stage the meetings.
They were conducted by ONR Pasadena with the help of a volunteer steering
committee. Beginning with the 11th MORS, ONR - Washington assumed their
supervision and hired a contractor to perform the work in cooperation with a
volunteer executive committee. This arrangement was continued until April 1966
at which time the Military Operations Research Society was incorporated. In
1989, the symposia became Military Operations Research Society Symposia (MORSS)
and MORS became the acronym for the Society. During its over forty years, MORS has expanded its services. In addition to conducting a classified symposium, MORS holds several other meetings annually. The Society also publishes abstracts, monographs, brochures, a quarterly bulletin PHALANX and a refereed journal - Military Operations Research, for professional exchange and peer criticism among students, theoreticians, practitioners and users of military operations research. MORS is also working to make unclassified documents and information available on its home page at http://www.mors.org. The Military Operations Research Society is a professional society incorporated under the laws of Virginia. The Society does not make or advocate official policy nor does it attempt to influence the formulation of policy. Matters discussed or statements made in the course of MORS symposia or printed in its publications represent the opinions of the authors and not of the Society.
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