Military operations research: Responding to change

For the 61st Military Operations Research Symposium, the program chair, Dan Barker, developed a survey to assess how the military operations research community was responding to change. The survey was mailed in late 1992 (three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall) and over 1200 of the 3500 surveys were returned. After the Symposium, Paul Auclair, Edward Mykytka and Greg Parnell analyzed the survey results for the journal. The article provides a descriptive summary of the membership, assesses the need for professional education, and identifies key insights about how the focus of the community had changed by late 1992.