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Front MatterSource: Operations Research, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb., 1962), pp. i-viPublished by: INFORMSStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/167865 .
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OPERATIONS RESEARCH The Journal of the Operations Reseach Society of America
EDITOR
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JOHN W. ABRAMS, Department of National Defence, Ottawa, Ontario RUSSELL L. ACKOFF, Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, Ohio WILLIAM W. COOPER, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania GEORGE B. DANTZIG, The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California WALTER L. DEEMER, Operations Analysis Ofice, Hq., U.S.A.F., Washington, D. C. ROBERT DORFMAN, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts HERBERT P. GALLIIIER, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. CHARLES GOODEVE, British Iron & Steel Research Assn., London W1, England VAN COURT HARE, Analytical Associates, Inc., New York, New York JOSEPH 0. HARRISON, JR., Research Analysis Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland G. RONALD HEED, Booz, Allen Applied Research, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland ROBERT HERMAN, General Motors Research Laboratories, Warren, Michigan DAVID B. HERTZ, Arthur Andersen & Co., New York, New York WILLIAM J. HORVATH, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan JOHN F. MAGEE, Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts DONALD G. MALCOLM, Operations Research Incorporated, Los Angeles California JOSEPH F. MCCLOSKEY, North American Aviation, Inc., Los Angeles, California THORNTON PAGE, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut E. W. PAXSON, The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California WILLIAM J. PLATT, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California THOMAS L. SAATY, Office of Naval Research, Washingfton, D. C. ANDREW SCHULTZ, JR., Cornell University, Ithaca, New York GEORGE SHORTLEY, Booz, Allen Applied Research, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland JACINTO STEINHARDT, Box 6196 Apex Station, Washington, D. C. ROBERT S. WEINBERG, International Business Machines Corp., New York, N. Y. PETER B. WILSON, Canadian National Railways, Montreal, Quebec
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The Operations Evaluation Group will be 20 years old in 1962, accounting for the candle at left and making OEG the oldest continuing military operations research organization in the country.
In its research and analysis for the Chief of Naval Opera- -, )tions and Fleet Commanders OEG pursues knowledge in
D I ^ _ virtually every sphere of naval interest. Consider OEG study 644, for example, entitled "Echo
Variability and the Formulation of a Radar Theory." OEG's analysts found that blaming radar oper- ators and poor radar maintenance for
variability of signal presentation on radar scopes (all other things supposedly being equal) was convenient but erroneous. New culprits will have to be isolated and bested. OEG thinks / it has found some of them for the Navy.
When is a sea not a sea? When it's a swell. Seriously. Seas and swells, ramp-to-touchdown distances, vertical velocities, wave-to-wave amplitude variations, and similarly specialized factors enter into "The Effect of Ship Motion and Flight " Deck Geometry upon Carrier Air Operations." This is Naval '
Warfare Analysis Group Study No. 20 (NAVWAG being the long-range studies division of OEG). One interesting conclusion: Position of the touchdown point has a greater effect on precluded flying time than does ship length. And on the subject of ship length, the minimum recommended (for an angled-deck carrier) is 800 feet.
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