Certificate in Homeland Security Gaming

Certificate in Gaming Homeland Security

Certificate in Homeland Security Gaming
Mon-Wed, 3-5 March 2025 
1000 to 1800 ET
Online (Zoom)

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Overview

The MORS Certificate in Homeland Security Gaming examines the challenges of gaming homeland security incidents. The course will introduce homeland security operations and how games and exercises can be used for planning, training, and analysis. Lectures will focus on games and game design with their application to homeland security incidents. The instructors will employ a series of case studies and practical exercises to explain how to design and facilitate these games. At the end of the course, the students will be able to evaluate a natural or human-caused disaster and employ design techniques to model and produce a game.

Objectives

Our expert instructors will introduce participants to various ways game designs can be used to evaluate and model various types of disasters and emergencies. Participants will:

  • Learn how to evaluate a specific type of disaster by employing Homeland Security priorities and applying game design techniques
  • Be familiar with the game and exercises systems of the Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation Program (HSEEP)
  • Understand how to model the contingencies of specific disasters using wargame design methods
  • Develop an awareness of gaming tools to develop realistic disaster-based wargames

Agenda

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Instructors

Dr. Roger Mason
Dr. Roger Mason

Dr. Roger Mason retired after 29 years of public safety experience in Los Angeles County. For the past fifteen years he has specialized in emergency management and the development of wargames and exercises. He has designed over 50 emergency management and public safety wargames and hybrid game/functional exercises. His clients include National Defense University, Penn State University, the University of Hawaii, the US Army, and the CNA Corporation. Dr. Mason has served as the wargaming professor for the Institute for Intelligence Analysis, Juan Carlos University, Madrid Spain. Read More

Dr. Ed McGrady
Dr. Ed McGrady Adjunct Senior Fellow, Center for New American Security Instructor and Course Coordinator on Gaming, Military Operations Research Society Principal, MonksHood Media LLC

 

Dr. McGrady writes, speaks, and teaches on the design of professional games. He is an adjunct senior fellow in gaming at CNAS, teaches and manages game design courses for MORS/Virginia Tech, and runs a business devoted to using games and game techniques to bring innovative experiences in new areas. His recent book, Roll to Save: Gaming Disease Response, describes designing games in support of public health professionals. Read More

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Employer Member Non-Member
MORS Government Sponsor* $1620 $1680
U.S. Federal Government $1680 $1740
National Research Partner
(IDA Employees Only)
$1653 $1710
All Others $1740 $1800

*Government Sponsor organizations include: Center for Army Analysis, HQDA/DCS Program G-8; Marine Corps Combat Development and Integration; Naval Operations, N81; Secretariat of the Air Force, Studies and Analysis SAF/SA; OSD, A&S; and DHS S&T/OSE/ORA