techniques to cybersecurity. He collaborated with MIT (School of Engineering), Georgia Tech, Air Force Academy and West Point to develop Cyber Risk Assessment methodology. In 2017, he won the Asian American Engineer of the Year (AAEOY) award for his technical contributions and leadership.
William J. Lademan is a professional wargamer with extensive experience in the field that includes more than four decades of practice, research, and participation. Graduating from the United States Naval Academy, he received a commission in the United States Marine Corps. During his service, he held various command and staff positions, which included high‐level planning positions. He also attended the Naval War College and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. After service, he obtained a PhD in chemistry from Lehigh University and spent over a decade in academia and the chemical industry before joining a consulting firm as a wargame designer. Currently, he is the technical director of the Wargaming Division, Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, charged with the execution of the Wargaming Program in support of examining service concepts, combat development, and operational plans. He is also involved in the planning for the construction of the Marine Corps’ purpose‐built wargaming center and the development of the Next Generation Wargame it will facilitate. In support of realizing the Next Generation Wargame concept, he has formulated two principles of action allowing for the representation of warfighting functions and the manipulation of wargame information and is conducting research into the metrics necessary to define the efficient application of these principles in wargame design and execution.
Sönke Marahrens is the program director of the German Institute for Defense and Strategic Studies, a cooperation between the Joint Forces Staff College and the University of the Armed Forces Hamburg. He is Colonel (GS) of the German Air Force and holds an MSc in computer science from the University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich and a master of public administration from the Royal Canadian College in Kingston. His research interests include artificial intelligence, the Prussian Wargame as well Military Command & Control and leadership for the 21st Century including M&S decision support. He is an expert on the application of NATO Modelling and Simulation, OR and NATO and National CD&E. He has received multiple awards, including the Clausewitz Medal as well as the Artur K Cebrowski Award.
Sandra Matuszewski is a general staff officer in the German Air Force. Her job specialization in the air force is information technology. She studied social sciences and administrative law from 2005 to 2009 in Munich, Germany, at the University of the Federal Armed Forces. Between October 2009 and March 2010, she took part in the ISAF Mission in Afghanistan. From 2015 to 2017 she completed her master’s in military leadership and international security during the General Staff Officers Course at the Leadership Academy of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg, where she studied wargaming and created the board game “Enhanced Luna Warrior.” She works at the Air Operations Center in Kalkar, Germany, where she is responsible for the CIS mission planning for the German Air Force.
Ole Martin Mevassvik is a principal scientist at FFI and project manager for M&S research. He received a siv. ing. degree in cybernetics from the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway in 1995. His main research interests are systems architecture and simulation interoperability with the focus on Command and Control to Simulation (C2SIM) interoperability. Ole Martin has participated in several national research projects and international activities on defense modeling and simulation. He has contributed to more than 80 peer‐reviewed conference and journal papers and scientific reports. Ole Martin Mevassvik has also acted as a consultant for the Norwegian Armed Forces in several simulator acquisition projects.
Daniel Müllenstedt studied mechanical engineering from 2011 to 2015 at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, Germany. He received the DWT‐Student Prize of the German Society for Defense Technology for his Master Thesis, and the Böttcher Prize for the Best Student of the Year 2016. In 2016 he became a maintenance officer at the Tactical Air Wing 71 “Richthofen” in Wittmund, Germany. After his training as a systems engineer for Eurofighter at AIRBUS Defence and Space in Manching, Germany in 2018, he was deployed as maintenance operations officer in the technical group of the Tactical Air Wing 71 “Richthofen.” Since 2019 he is a weapon system officer for the Eurofighter at the Air Force Forces Command in Cologne, Germany.
Andrzej Najgebauer is professor of computer and information systems and the chair of the Modelling and Simulation for Decision Support in Conflict and Crisis Situations Team at the Military University of Technology in Warsaw, Poland. He is also Polish member of STO/NATO Modelling and Simulation Group. He held the position of Dean of Cybernetics Faculty and vice president of the University for scientific affairs. He holds MSc and PhD in computer science from the Military University of Technology of Poland. He also holds a doctor of science in computer science, decision support systems from Warsaw University of Technology. His scientific, professional, and educational activities are mainly focused on artificial intelligence, modeling and simulation, designing of military decision support systems, threat prediction, wargames designing, cybersecurity and cyberwar. He was project leader of Polish Army Simulation System for CAXes and many Polish or international projects on DSS in the area of security and defense. He is the member of IFORS and member of Polish Society of Operations Research and Systems Analysis, vice president of Polish Society of Computer Simulation, the supervisor of 10 doctorates and general chair or co‐chair of many international scientific conferences in the area of MCIS and AI, and author of 5 books and over than 130 publications. He is a member of special group of analysts, who participated in the evaluation of possible results of international war games for eastern Europe. He is an expert in the Strategic Defense Review of Polish Armed Forces.
Ernest H. Page is the DARPA portfolio manager at The MITRE Corporation. Previously he served as chief engineer within the Modeling, Simulation, Experimentation and Analytics Technical Center, and founding Director of MITRE’s Simulation Experimentation and Analytics Lab (SEAL). He holds a PhD in computer science from Virginia Tech. With a research interest in simulation modeling methodology, and distributed systems, he has served as principal investigator on numerous government‐funded and Independent Research and Development (IR&D) projects. He has held a variety of senior advisory roles, including: technical advisor for the U.S. Army Model and Simulation Office, chief scientist for the U.S. Army Future Combat Systems (FCS) Modeling Architecture for Research and Experimentation (MATREX), and member of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Gaming, Exercising and Modeling and Simulation. Dr. Page has published over 50 peer‐reviewed articles in the areas of simulation modeling methodology, and parallel and distributed systems. He served as the chair of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Simulation (SIGSIM), the Board of Directors of the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), and serves on the editorial boards of Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation, and Journal of Simulation.
Dariusz Pierzchała is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Cybernetics at the Military University of Technology (MUT) in Warsaw, Poland. He graduated from MUT with a MSc degree in information systems. In 2002 he obtained PhD in simulation and decision support. He is also Polish member of STO/NATO Modelling and Simulation Group. He has been teaching a variety of subjects over the last 15 years, from computer engineering to modeling and simulation and knowledge management. With the beginning of 2013, on retiring from the Polish Armed Forces as Colonel, he assumed the position of civilian assistant professor and deputy director at the Institute of Computer and Information Systems. His scientific interests concern decision support systems, machine learning, and computer simulation in the domain of national security, defense and crisis management. He received multiple awards, individually and as a team member, including the NATO STO Scientific Achievement Award (2015).
Phillip E. Pournelle retired as commander from the US Navy after 26 years of service as a surface warfare officer. He served on cruisers, destroyers, amphibious ships, and an experimental high‐speed vessel. He served on the Navy Staff doing campaign analysis, at the Office of Secretary of Defense Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, and at the Office of Net Assessment. He is now the senior director for wargaming and analysis at the Long‐Term Strategy Group. He has a master of science degree from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey,