2025-26 MORS President: Nick Ulmer
For nearly sixty years in changing times, the Military Operations Research Society (MORS) has remained the professional home for analysts looking to understand and advance National Security Analysis. We remain a vibrant and professionally relevant community dedicated to its members, partners, and sponsors. MORS is your professional home.
The foundation of our profession is solidly planted in proven techniques. As a community, we must balance our past with emerging tools such as AI, which I have written about in the 2024-25 winter issue of Phalanx Magazine. But the tools and applications being built on this foundation are growing at an exponential rate. Just like a warrior must keep his sword edge sharp and quiver of arrows full, so must our community retain its analytical edge. The MORS Emerging Techniques Forum (ETF) will tackle some of these issues this December. A more enduring focus will be provided by the 94th MORS Symposium; I am proud to announce its theme: “Sharpening Our Analytical Edge”. MORS supports this focus by helping our community members:
- Assemble winning teams,
- Stay relevant and forward looking, and
- Recognize and support excellence in our profession.
This year, MORS will be offering at least four special meetings, expanding its course and certificate offerings, and exploring ways to strengthen and expand our community. We actively engage with members, partners, and sponsors. We are adding volunteer opportunities and recognition. Our publications team is pushing hard to release new content while looking for ways to digitize older content. Our goals and aspirations are high because we are passionate about our professional home.
These meetings are:
- Technology Assessments Methods Workshop, Chaired by Dr. Yuna Wong
- 10th Emerging Techniques Forum (ETF), Chaired by Scott Cohick
- Education and Professional Development Colloquium (EPD), Chaired by Kathleen Hill
- 4th Annual Wargaming Workshop [tentative]
- AI Workshop: Accelerating Data and Analytics for Artificial Intelligence, Co-Chairs: Nate Bastian and Dave Saranchak
- 94th MORS Symposium, Chaired by Kindra Bane
Following the warrior analogy, today’s analyst must not only have a keen and sharp analytical mind, they must build an armory of the best tools and techniques while also building cross-functional teams. MORS is the way.
While the daily operations and so much more within MORS is done by a small but fantastic staff led by MORS CEO, Ms. Jen Ferat, we still need active members, partners, and sponsors. Our dedicated volunteers lead working groups, communities, and committees. They help at in-person and virtual events. Combined with partners and sponsors, our members are the beating heart of our amazing community. Becoming a MORS member and volunteering with MORS is an outstanding professional and personally rewarding decision.
I hope to see you at an event soon!
Nick Ulmer
60th MORS President
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