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5 Education, Training, and Professional Practice in Defense-Related MS&A
5 Education, Training, and Professional Practice in Defense-Related MS&A
Pages 45-51
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Structural issues within the de- ing different roles work together to support a given decisionfense establishment affect DoD's ability to attract and retain making objective. The various roles played by MS&A pracwell-educated modelers.
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Some consumers may be military or civilian decision makers and/or managers with little In the sections that follow, the committee addresses the technical training and only a rudimentary understand- question of how to ensure that education and training pre ing of the internal workings of the models and simula- pare people to work effectively with other people playing tions that support their decisions. In other cases, they roles that are different from their own, as well as to recog may be equally competent in one of the other roles or nize the limits of their own competence and to compensate may even have played one or more of the other roles at appropriately by drawing on the expertise of people trained some point in their careers.
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Postgraduate programs are avail- sionals into the workforce. able at a number of military academies, including the Air Force Institute of Technology, the Naval War College, the MS&A CURRICULUM Naval Postgraduate School, and the National Defense University.
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An impor- only to the degree that humans can interact effectively tant core competency is the ability to construct and with it. An MS&A professional should have a basic execute simulations of both deterministic and stochas- understanding of perception, cognition, and the inter tic discrete event and continuous systems.
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While a course of study in business administra- Recommendation 12: DoD must give its MS&A practi tion provides useful education for managers, manage- tioners some exposure to all the topics in the core cur ment of highly technical programs requires knowledge riculum: the MS&A life cycle; continuous and discrete that goes beyond what is taught in most business ad- simulation; probability and statistics; topics in comput ministration programs. Some degree of technical train- ing; deterministic modeling and optimization; MS&A ing is necessary for individuals managing highly tech- evaluation; human-simulation interaction; modeling hu nical programs.
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The Society for Computer Simula tion publishes the peer-reviewed archival journal Journal Recommendation 13: DoD should ensure that its educa- of Defense Modeling and Simulation. Nondefense MS&A tional programs provide experiences in which students professional societies also offer opportunities for the exintegrate the activities of modeling, simulation, analy- change of ideas, and many of them have special-interest sis, evaluation, and communication to address real- groups devoted to defense-related topics, such as the Miliworld problems of importance to the consumers of the tary Applications Section (MAS)
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2006. "Ten iterative steps in tion and practical experience not come at the cost of even- development and evaluation of environmental models." Environmental tual career advancement.
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