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I am currently involved in research, policy development, and measurement techniques to addresses information operations, information assurance, and security.

I previously served many years in Army analysis agencies:

1) At Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, in the Ballistic Research Laboratories, home of the World's First Elctronic, High-speed, Digital Computer. ENIAC was out in the BRL hallway when I was an intern, on its way to the Smithsonian and University of Pennsylvania museums. Now there are rumors that the actual first computer may have been in a hush-hush organization near the Potomac or London.

2) At AMSAA, the Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity,home of many pioneering Army Operations Research and Systems Analysis efforts.

3) And later, at the TRADOC Systems Analysis Activity,White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, where I headed a Branch and had the good fortune to serve as a Director of Research under the incredible Dr. Wilbur B. Payne, first Deputy Undersecretary of the Army for Operations Research.

Dr. Wilbur B. Payne (Courtesy of Kristina Robbins)

I then spent six years in the defense industry in Minneapolis (Honeywell and Alliant Techsystems). I now work near the Pentagon in a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC). IDA is neither Government nor Industry, but rather a "think tank" and part of the corporate memory of the Secretary of Defense. Here, I have been involved in studies of the Digital Battlefield, Y2K, Information Assurance, Virtual Distributed Interactive Simulation, and Operations Other Than War (due to service on a Defense Science Board and our emerging "New World Order").

Other work-related interests include Photography and Digital Image Processing, Computer Aided Design, Aviation, Robotics. . . (See information on the History of Robotics , here ).

... Ground-Penetrating Radar, courtesy of Jean Pilon ( Canadian friend and world-class character!),

Drs. McQuade, Pilon, and Olson

... and Information Warfare. [The InfoWar site was prepared by a summer intern, Aiesha Duncan, from the University of Maryland.]

George Mason University Campus, Fairfax, VA
(Johnson Center with Statue of George Mason)

To prepare for my dissertation, I took courses in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Informatics, and History of Military Operations. I also completed Operations Other Than War papers that featured the Lewis & Clark Corps of Discovery 1803-1806 Expedition in search of the Northwest Passage (see a map of their expedition on my GIS page), and also a paper on the Maj John Wesley Powell Expeditions. It is likely that Powell and his wife walked on or near our land when they climbed Pikes Peak in the 1860s.

In addition, I took methodology courses in Digital Image Processing, Multivariate Statistics, International Police Operations, Future Strategic Scenarios (projecting the impact of science, technology, and socio-economics on urban areas by the Year 2100), and Special Studies courses on Urban Areas and Information Warfare.

Hobbies

My other interests include Model Trains, Photography, Chess, Bridge, Flying, Music and Scuba Diving -- One can't understand the exhilaration of diving a wall until you see it... this is one sport that truely is AWESOME. I also Canoe in the North Woods and sometimes sing in competition (barbershop quartets and choruses).

Here is a glimpse of a wall dive near Cayman Brac with my wife and Steve Pernetti. The photo doesn't begin to capture the marvelous sights and the incredible experience of the brilliant marine life, or the jaw-dropping reaction of staring out and down into all the Blues, Cobalts, Greys and Blacks of Infinity... Well, at least 6000 Feet in some parts of the Cayman Trench. For more see my Dive Page.

 

Wall Dive (Cayman Brac - South Side, 100+ feet)

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Friends and Family

I enjoy reunions with friends and family (click on "Friends and Family" above).

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Other Pages

I can be contacted at wolson@ida.org

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