B4 APG News • Thursday, November 17, 2016

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(From left) Gen. William S. Wallace, commander, U.S.Army Training and Doctrine Command, and Brig. Gen.Rebecca S. Halstead, salute during the change of com-mand ceremony making Halstead the 34th chief of Ord-nance and commander of the U.S. Army Ordnance Cen-ter and Schools.

Dr. Jack Atwater, Ordnance Museum director points to adetail on the memorial dedicated to the 243rd FieldArtillery Battalion to World War II veteran, Ken McCauley,a former member of the unit.

Maj. Kenneth Stinson, executive officer, U.S. Army Ballis-tic Research Laboratories, fourth from right, poses witheight BRL employees after they received federal serviceawards.

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The U.S. Army Communications-Elec-tronics Research, Development and Engi-neering Center, or CERDEC, received the2016 Wilbur B. Payne Memorial Awards forExcellence in Analysis - Special TopicCategory, Nov. 1during the ArmyOperationsResearchSymposiumatAPG.

The Wilbur B. Payne award has threecategories: large group, small group andspecial category.TheArmy’sDeputyChief ofStaffG-8determined thewinners.

CERDEC’sSpaceandTerrestrialCommu-nications Directorate, or S&TCD, won for aCommunications Vulnerability Analysis inwhich they conducted a groundbreakingsystems-of-systems network vulnerabilityanalysis on theArmy’s tactical network.

S&TCD’s engineering and investmentstrategy provides technical solutions for theSoldier to perform uninterrupted communi-cations, defensive cyber, and networking toimprove maneuver and expeditionary op-erations.

The CERDEC S&TCD team consisted ofsix members to include JohnWillison, JohnBoksiner, Seth Spoenlein, Wayne Schoon-veld, Richard Hoffman and Eugene Ivanyu-tin.

“Our team is dedicated to developinginnovative solutions in support of theSoldier,” saidJohnWillison,S&TCDdirector.“Winning such a prestigious award bringsgreatcredit toourdirectorateandCERDEC.”

The S&TCD team traveled to Fort Leav-enworth,Kansasandpresentedtheiranalysisto a panel who reviewed and compared thefindings to that of twoothernominations.

During the ceremony, the team wasrecognized for their “significant advance-ments and innovation from August 2015

through February 2016 in developing arisk-basedassessmentstrategy,”aswrittenonthe award certificate.

“The network is a critical component inhow we fight in the 21st century,” said SethSpoenlein, S&TCD associate director forTechnology, Planning, andOutreach. “Whilewe often focus on the specific technologysolutions, the analysis the team performedprovidedacomprehensivemethodtoquanti-tatively relate technology to operational

capabilities. This allows leaders to makeinformed trade spacedecisions.”

According to the Army Operations Re-search Symposium website, Dr. Wilbur B.Payne was a pioneer in Army OperationsResearch and the preeminent leader in thefield for three decades. Dr. Payne was anenthusiastic advocate for applying methodsof science to practical defense decisionmaking, enforcing the highest standards ofprofessionalism, and nurturing and mentor-

ingoperations research analysts.“Maintaining a reliable, robust tactical

network is critical for Soldiers to communi-cate both now and into the future, and theS&TCD team has been instrumental inproviding technical solutions toward thiseffort,” said Maj. Gen. Cedric Wins, RDE-COM commanding general. “This awardrecognizes the team’s hardwork anddedica-tion to theRDECOMprogramand theArmyoverall.”

APG team wins prestigious Army awardGroundbreaking tacticalnetwork vulnerabilityanalysis earns Wilbur B.Payne awardBy KellyWhiteCommunications-Electronics Research,Development and Engineering Center

CERDEC’s Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate received the Wilbur Payne Award – Special Category for a CommunicationsVulnerability Analysis in which they conducted a groundbreaking systems-of-systems network vulnerability analysis on the Army’s tacti-cal network.

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Hegemony The Great Lakes Environmental ResearchLaboratory, GLERL, also known as NOAA-GLERL, a division of the National Oceanic Atmos-pheric Administration, and its partners conductinnovative research on the dynamic environmentsand ecosystems of the Great Lakes and coastalregions toprovide information that leads to safe andsustainable ecosystems, ecosystem services, andhuman communities. The NOAA –GLERL wasdesignatedApril 25,1974, and established to providea focus for NOAA’s environmental and ecosystem research in the Great Lakes andcoastal marine environments. Since then, GLERL has made important scientificcontributions to the understanding andmanagement of the Great Lakes and othercoastal ecosystems. Today, GLERL research is carried out within three integratedscience branches: Observing Systems and Advanced Technology, EcosystemDynamics, andIntegratedPhysical andEcologicalModelingandForecasting.Theycollaborate tocollect thenecessary informationtodevelopandadvancepredictionsof interconnected ecological andhuman systems in theGreat Lakes.

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