Michael W. Garrambone, President elect of MORS, analyst, educator

Mr. Michael W. Garrambone is a retired Army Combat Engineer and Senior Military Operations Research Analysts for the InfoSciTex Corporation of Dayton, Ohio.  He received his BS in Engineering Science and Mechanics from the University of Florida and his MS degree in Operations Research from the Florida Institute of Technology.  He earned a MBA in Management (Decision Sciences) and a M. Ed. in Statistics and Measurement from Georgia State University.  Over the last 20 years he has served as a military analyst supporting Air Force and Army programs involving engineering design, weapon system analysis, risk assessment, education, and various applications of modeling, simulation and wargaming.  He has been an analyst for the Air Force Experimentation Office’s Joint Expeditionary Force Experiments (JEFX) designing, training, and testing of Air Operations Centers and time-critical-targeting planning cells.  He has performed operational assessments, quick-reaction planning, and Training Systems Requirements Analyses for Air Combat Command and for Air Education and Training Command.  Mr. Garrambone designed and developed the Air Force's 36-hour Prime Warrior wargaming course for the Air University's College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research and Education.  He served as the Air Force Wargaming Institute’s principle instructor for this USAF Chief of Staff initiative that prepared Air Force officers to participate in Joint wargames, experiments, and exercises.  Mr. Garrambone supported the Sensor Fuzed Weapon, Joint Direct Attack Munition, the Joint Standoff Weapon, the Hard and Deeply Buried Target, and the B-52 Strategic Radar Replacement Analyses of Alternatives (AoAs) for Air Combat Command and the USAF Simulation and Analysis Facility (SIMAF).  He developed several courses in Operations Research and Modeling Simulation and Wargaming while serving as an Army instructor at the Air Force Institute of Technology.  He developed the AFIT Modeling, Simulation, and Wargaming Laboratory for student and faculty research with support from the Army's TRADOC Analysis Command and the Air Force's Center for Studies and Analyses (now A9).  He advised over 25 Army and Air Force graduate students on warfare related studies.  He has been a distinguished speaker at Ulchi Focus Lens, the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Modeling, Simulation and Wargaming Course, the Winter Simulation Conference, and the Institute for Operations Research Modeling and Simulation (INFORMS) Military Applications Section (MAS).  He is a guest speaker at the Center for Army Analysis and the Marine Corps Combat Development Command.  He is the President-Elect of the Military Operations Research Society (MORS) and has been a Board Director and chairman of several working committees.  In 2011 he created the MORS Symposium First Ever Wargame with tutorials, rehearsals, and two days of gaming at multi-level play.  He has presented many historical, M&S, and analytical tutorials at MORS and served as the Working Group chair for Modeling Simulation and Wargaming.  He has been a MAS Council Member.  Prior to AFIT, Mr. Garrambone was the Chief, Combat Modeling and Simulation, Command, Control, Communications, Countermeasures (C3CM), Joint Test Force (JTF), Kirkland AFB, NM.  Here he directed Army, Air Force, and civilian contractor research analysts, computer programmers, statisticians and technical report writers in developing tactical and technical combat scenarios portraying US military and threat operations.  His division obtained operational data, performed wargaming through computer simulation, and analyzed operational-level joint-Service combat employing various OR techniques.  As the Director of the Decision Risk Analysis Course, US Army Logistics University, Fort Lee, VA, Mr. Garrambone ran an 80-hour course preparing instructor teams to train over 800 scientists, engineers, logisticians, and senior military officers in analytical techniques, modeling, simulation, decision risk analysis, scheduling, and cost estimating.  Prior to this analytical period, Mr. Garrambone was a unit commander in the 78th Engineer Battalion (Combat), 7th Engineer Brigade, VII US Corps, Germany and an operations/intelligence officer in the 43d Engineer Battalion (Combat Heavy), Fort Benning, Georgia.  He served as a Special Projects officer on the general staff of the 21st Support Command and was the distinguished graduate of the Army Command and General Staff College and the Army Operations Research/Systems Analysis Military Applications Course I.

(Last Updated 28 July 2011.)

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