Warfare Analysis Certificate - Curriculum 263 (DL), 267 (Res)

Curriculum 263 (DL) is currently closed to Admissions

Program Officer

Matt Geiser, CDR, USN

Code GB, Ingersoll Hall, Room 219A

[phone], DSN 756-3953

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Academic Associate

Kyle Lin, Ph.D.

Glasgow Hall, Room 260

[phone], DSN 756-2648

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Program Manager

Steven E. Pilnick, Ph.D.

Glasgow Hall, Room 291

[phone], DSN 756-2283

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Brief Overview

The Academic Certificate in Warfare Analysis provides specialized graduate education in Operations Research warfare modeling and warfare analysis techniques. The Certificate may be earned in residence at NPS by students already admitted to another curriculum or via Distance Learning (DL). DL courses are delivered either synchronously, requiring participation in scheduled weekly class video meetings, or entirely asynchronously online. The asynchronous courses are paced week-to-week by the instructors, but the students have great flexibility to do their course work at times of their choosing each week.

Requirements for entry

• Baccalaureate Degree
• Calculus with C or better
• A course in probability and statistics or permission of the instructor
• Operational experience in military environments

Pre-requisite note: Graduates of NPS in-residence master’s curricula 360, 361, 355, and 308, or DL master's curriculum 363, or DL certificate curriculum 281 have satisfied all Warfare Analysis Certificate pre-requisites.

Convenes

Fall

Program Length

12 months

Subspecialty / Additional Qualification Designation

3211L / AQD 288

Navy students who already have a 3211 (Operations Research Analysis) subspeciality will be awarded the Additional Qualification Designation (AQD) 288.

Navy students who do not already have a subspecialty code 3211 will be awarded both a 3211L subspecialty code and AQD 288.

Graduate Certificate Requirements

Learning Objectives for the graduate certificate in Warfare Analysis are met by successful completion of four courses:

· OA3602 (4-0) or OS3680 (4-0) (previously completed or taken with the Warfare Analysis Certificate)

· OA4602 (4-0)

· OA4655 (4-0) or OS4655 (4-0)

· OA4604 (3-2) or OS3606 (4-0)

Outcomes

At the completion of the certificate program, the student should be able to:

• Demonstrate knowledge to apply logic, analytics, and mathematical modeling to quantitatively evaluate warfare tactics against an adversary in search, patrol, and combat operations.
• Demonstrate proficiency with various measures related to search operations such as sweep width, lateral range curves, and true range curves, and proficiency in analyzing effectiveness of search tactics such as random search, parallel search, and barrier patrol search.
• Demonstrate familiarity with development, use, and recent applications of campaign analysis in actual procurement, force structure, and operations planning.
• Demonstrate proficiency with formulating a warfare problem, choosing assumptions, structuring the analysis, measuring effectiveness, and interpreting and communicating results verbally and in writing.
• Demonstrate proficiency with applying the fundamentals of wargaming to designing, developing, conducting, and analyzing a wargame.
• Demonstrate familiarity with basic tools and concepts of joint combat modeling and fundamentals of how combat models are built and used to support decision making.
• Demonstrate familiarity with firing theory, one-on-one and few-on-few engagements, aggregated force-on-force modeling, including the basic Lanchester model and some of its derivatives, and entity-level simulations of combat.

Typical Course of Study (In Residence)

In residence required courses

Course Number	Title	Credits	Lecture Hours	Lab Hours
OA3602	Search Theory and Detection		4	0
OA4655	Introduction to Joint Combat Modeling		4	0
OA4602	Joint Campaign Analysis		4	0
OA4604	Wargaming Applications		3	2

Typical Course of Study (Distance Learning)

DL required courses

Course Number	Title	Credits	Lecture Hours	Lab Hours
OS3680	Naval Tactical Analysis		4	0
OA4602	Joint Campaign Analysis		4	0
OS4655	Introduction to Joint Combat Modeling		4	0
OS3606	Introduction to Wargaming Applications		3	2

Typical Course of Study (graduates of 355, 363, or 281)

Prior completion of OS3680 or OA3602 required courses

Course Number	Title	Credits	Lecture Hours	Lab Hours
OA4602	Joint Campaign Analysis		4	0
OA4655	Introduction to Joint Combat Modeling		4	0
	-or-
OS4655	Introduction to Joint Combat Modeling		4	0
OA4604	Wargaming Applications		3	2
	-or-
OS3606	Introduction to Wargaming Applications		3	2

Prior completion of OS3680 or OA3602 is counted towards satisfying the learning objectives of the Warfare Analysis Certificate. In this situation, the remaining three Warfare Analysis Certificate courses reach the minimum required 12-credit hour threshold for a Certificate.