Certificate in Gaming Homeland Security

Overview:

The MORS Certificate in Homeland Security Gaming examines the challenges of gaming homeland security incidents. The course will introduce homeland security operations and how games and exercises can be used for planning, training, and analysis. Lectures will focus on games and game design with their application to homeland security incidents. The instructors will employ a series of case studies and practical exercises to explain how to design and facilitate these games. At the end of the course, the students will be able to evaluate a natural or human-caused disaster and employ design techniques to model and produce a game.

Objectives:

Our expert instructors will introduce participants to various ways game designs can be used to evaluate and model various types of disasters and emergencies. Participants will:

Learn how to evaluate a specific type of disaster by employing Homeland Security priorities and applying game design techniques
Be familiar with the game and exercises systems of the Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation Program (HSEEP)
Understand how to model the contingencies of specific disasters using wargame design methods
Develop an awareness of gaming tools to develop realistic disaster-based wargames

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Instructors

Dr. Roger Mason

Dr. Roger Mason retired after 29 years of public safety experience in Los Angeles County. For the past fifteen years he has specialized in emergency management and the development of wargames and exercises. He has designed over 50 emergency management and public safety wargames and hybrid game/functional exercises. His clients include National Defense University, Penn State University, the University of Hawaii, the US Army, and the CNA Corporation. Dr. Mason has served as the wargaming professor for the Institute for Intelligence Analysis, Juan Carlos University, Madrid Spain.

Mason is a published author on the topic of wargames. He is the co-founder of LECMgt, a strategic management firm based in Camarillo, California. He holds a Ph. D in Management and Decision sciences from Walden University and an M.A. in Public Administration from the California State University, Northridge. He retired after 37 years of service with the Air National Guard/ USAF Reserve.

Dr. Ed McGrady

Adjunct Senior Fellow, Center for New American Security Instructor and Course Coordinator on Gaming, Military Operations Research Society Principal, MonksHood Media LLC

Dr. McGrady writes, speaks, and teaches on the design of professional games. He is an adjunct senior fellow in gaming at CNAS, teaches and manages game design courses for MORS/Virginia Tech, and runs a business devoted to using games and game techniques to bring innovative experiences in new areas. His recent book, Roll to Save: Gaming Disease Response, describes designing games in support of public health professionals.

In the past Dr. McGrady built and directed a team of 10-20 analysts at CNA devoted to the design and execution of professional games. Dr. McGrady has written, taught, and presented on the topic of games and their use in organizational and individual learning. He has designed and run games for many different clients ranging from the White House to the Department of Agriculture to the automotive industry. Dr. McGrady has also built a team at CNA devoted to chemical and biological response operations, including domestic response operations.

Dr. McGrady has deployed as an analyst with US Forces in Haiti during operation Uphold Democracy, onboard USS Nimitz for Desert Storm and with operational E-2C squadrons. Dr. McGrady holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan. He has published extensively in the Chemical Engineering, physics, and national security literature and is widely cited for his work on the mathematics of aggregation and fragmentation.

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Employer	Member	Non-Member
MORS Government Sponsor*	$1,620	$1,680
U.S. Federal Government	$1,680	$1,740
National Research Partner (IDA Employees Only)	$1,653	$1,710
All Others	$1,740	$1,800

*Government Sponsor organizations include: Center for Army Analysis, HQDA/DCS Program G-8; Marine Corps Combat Development and Integration; Naval Operations, N81; Secretariat of the Air Force, Studies and Analysis SAF/SA; OSD, A&S; and DHS S&T/OSE/ORA