Overview
Join us in Germany for our workshop on Critical Infrastructure, focused on regions outside of the United States. We encourage participation from the United States and Allied Nations. Global security interests are closely tied to the reliable provision of infrastructure, from the physical basing infrastructure that enables training and deployment to the communications infrastructure that connect forces. Recent attacks on infrastructure - both physical and cyber - highlight the risks to global defense, along with the impacts to military operations. This meeting will focus on bringing together global partners in security to discuss various challenges of infrastructure creation, modernization, protection, and recovery from disruptive incidents (both deliberate attacks and non-deliberate impacts of accidents, climate, etc.). We encourage the submission of abstracts that highlight analyses in these areas as they relate to security interests.
Output: This workshop will produce a special report designed to inform senior leaders about challenges in global critical infrastructure and opportunities for the analytic community to enhance data-informed decision making.
Focus Area 1: Development and Modernization: Analyses related to the location, funding, modernization, and maintenance of infrastructure or related systems.
- How can we improve the management of aging infrastructure and what analytic tools exist to consider the placement of new infrastructure and prioritization of maintenance / rehabilitation?
- How are current and future conflicts shaping both military and civilian infrastructure?
- What are the major concerns for mobility and access that must be considered in prioritizing infrastructure development?
- How are nations exploiting infrastructure investments to impact global security dynamics and how can we assess the long-term effects?
Focus Area 2: Threats and Vulnerability: Analyses related to threats (both adversarial and natural), proactive measures, and climate change.
- What analytic tools are available when considering how to identify vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure?
- How are cyber threats impacting critical infrastructure and what actions need to be taken to address those threats?
- How are current conflicts and attacks on critical infrastructure (both military and civilian) informing prioritization of protection?
- What is the impact of climate change and new technologies and how can nations more effectively respond to those challenges?
Focus Area 3: Resilience: Analyses relating to disruption and responses, hardening, recovery, and adaptive capacity, including best practices and lessons learned.
- What analytic tools are available that provide guidance on improving the resilience of critical infrastructure assets and systems?
- Anticipating human response to disruption potentially requires different kinds of tools to increase resilience. What are the state of the art education, training, war games and exercises, designed to uncover human response and preparedness?
- How can we quantify the tradeoffs between different resilience goals for infrastructure, including hardening, recovery, extending capabilities, and adaptive capacity?
- How can military and civilian infrastructure support each other to be more resilient during conflict and peacetime?
Agenda
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Call For Abstracts
The Military Operations Research Society's (MORS) Global Critical Infrastructure committee is now seeking participants to support the working group discussions. Focus Area discussions will include the opportunity to share recent and ongoing work and experiences of subject matter experts. We welcome submissions through the abstracts portal of both existing work and summaries of participant expertise. Formal abstracts are not required to participate. Please submit any overview materials by 20 September 2024 to aid the Focus Area leads in their development of discussions. Topic areas include: Development and Modernization, Threats and Vulnerability, and Resilience. All abstracts must be submitted as unclassified.
Other: If you have a topic you think would be of interest to the meeting, please submit under "Other."
Featured Speakers
Dr. David L. Alderson
David L. Alderson is a Professor in the Operations Research Department as well as Founder and Executive Director for the Center for Infrastructure Defense (CID) at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California. Read More
David L. Alderson is a Professor in the Operations Research Department as well as Founder and Executive Director for the Center for Infrastructure Defense (CID) at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California.
Dr. Alderson has been studying the function and operation of critical infrastructures for more than 25 years, with particular emphasis on how to invest limited resources to ensure efficient and resilient performance in the face of accidents, failures, natural disasters, or deliberate attacks. His research explores tradeoffs between efficiency, complexity, and fragility in a wide variety of public and private cyber-physical systems.
Dr. Alderson has been the Principal Investigator of sponsored research projects for the United States Navy, Marine Corps, Army, Air Force, and Coast Guard. He is a frequent lecturer in NATO short courses related to critical energy infrastructure protection and resilience. He has received numerous research and teaching awards and twice received the Military Operations Research Society Richard A. Barchi Prize.
Dr. Alderson received his doctorate from Stanford University and his undergraduate degree from Princeton University. He has held research positions at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the University of California Los Angeles, the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and the Santa Fe Institute. He has extensive industry experience and has worked for several venture-backed startup companies. He spent his early career developing technology at Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York City.
Dr. Daniel Armanios
Daniel Armanios is the BT Professor and Chair of Major Programme Management at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. He also holds a Courtesy Appointment with the Department of Engineering Science. Read More
Daniel Armanios is the BT Professor and Chair of Major Programme Management at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. He also holds a Courtesy Appointment with the Department of Engineering Science.
He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Leadership at Tsinghua University in Schwarzman College. He was previously an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering & Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University.
Daniel holds Bachelor’s degrees from the University of Pittsburgh in Mechanical Engineering (B.S.) and Political Science (Economics Minor) (B.A), where he was a Goldwater and Truman Scholar. He holds a Master’s degree from the University of Oxford in Management Research and in Water Science, Policy and Management (MSc), where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He holds a PhD from Stanford University in Management Science & Engineering, where he was a joint National Science Foundation and Stanford Benchmark Graduate Research Fellow.
St. Martinstrasse 120
82467 Garmisch, Germany
Rate: $181
Deadline to Reserve: 21 September 2024
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