Title: vmasc - an update on where we are and where we are going. 

Dr McGinnis will give a brief overview of VMASC - a little background, history,
  organization, research partnerships, labs, and cover ongoing and future
  research areas in m&s, the new m&s building, m&s faculty, and collaboration
  opportunities with the computer science dept.  The talk with conclude with
  q&a. 



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Mike McGinnis joined Old Dominion University on 10 June 2006 as the
Executive Director of the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation
Center.  Prior to assuming this position Brigadier General (Ret) McGinnis
served for seven years as Professor and Department Head of the Systems
Engineering Department, United States Military Academy, West Point, New
York.

Mike's previous Army modeling, simulation and analysis assignments include
Director of the U.S. Army Unit Manning Task Force, Director of the U.S.
Army TRADOC Analysis Center at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey,
California, and Director of the U.S. Military Academy Operations Research
Center.

He has served on key government engineering, modeling, simulation and
analysis committees to bring about change at the Army and Department of
Defense levels.  These include the National Academy of Sciences Committee
on Defense Modeling, Simulation and Analysis, the Undersecretary of Defense
for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Systems Engineering Forum, the
U.S. Army OneSAF Architecture Working Group, Senior Reviewer for the Army
Standards Nomination and Approval Process for Semi-Automated Forces, U.S.
Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Modeling and Simulation
Committee, and the Deputy Undersecretary of the Army for Operations
Research and Systems Analysis (ORSA) Advisory Committee.

Doctor McGinnis is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and has Masters
of Science degrees in Applied Mathematics and Operations Research from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona
in Systems and Industrial Engineering.  He attended the Command and General
Staff College at Fort Leavenworth and the Naval War College in Newport,
Rhode Island where he earned a Masters of Arts in National Security and
Strategic Studies.

Mike's professional and scholarly body of work includes three national
awards and over 40 published and peer-reviewed papers published during 17
years of working in the fields of systems engineering and operations
research domains. Reflecting his contributions to military operations
research, Mike has been a regular member of U.S. delegations to foreign
nations as part of the Deputy Undersecretary of the Army for Operations Dr.
McGinnis has been honored with the 1995 Military Operations Research
Society Rist Prize, the 2004 Military Operations Research Society Barchi
Prize, and the 'best paper' for the 2005 Interservice/ Industry Training,
Simulation & Education Conference (I/ITSEC) Research and Development Track.
 He was inducted into Who's Who in Engineering Education in 2005.