I/ITSEC Fellows
(Room S330A)
26 Nov 18
4:00 PM
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5:30 PM
Susan K. Numrich (Sue), Ph.D., CMSP, has contributed to the science and technology of Modeling and Simulation for over 50 years. Sue dug right in as a Research Physicist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) following receipt of her AB in Physics from Trinity College. As is typical for a researcher, she began her career at the engineering level of modeling and simulation and moved gradually into parallel and distributed simulation. She was fortunate to have support from NRL to pursue graduate work at The Johns Hopkins University, American University and Cambridge University (UK). She was selected by NRL and their parent organization, the Office of Naval Research, to represent the Science and Technology (S&T) community as part of the Navy’s Modeling and Simulation Management Office, a position that broadened her knowledge base to simulation used for training, acquisition, analysis and support to operations. When The Technical Cooperation Program (US, UK, CA, AUS, NZ) decided to explore distributed simulation as an area of international interest, Sue was selected to lead the development from a study group to a permanent committee, an effort for which she received both Project and Individual Performance Awards. When NATO chose to add simulation to their Studies and Analysis group, Sue joined the two studies and analyses representatives as the U.S. representative for simulation, a position she held for a three-year term. Meanwhile, back at the laboratory, she assumed leadership of a Branch where she managed programs in virtual reality, distributed simulation, massively parallel processing, signal processing and mission planning systems. Her last three years as a civil servant, Sue served as the Director of Technology for the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office where she was exposed to simulation across the whole of the Department of Defense. Since 2005, she has been a research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses where she has contributed to studi