ALLEN BUTLER

ALLEN BUTLER

ALLEN BUTLER

President & CEO, Daniel H. Wagner Associates, Inc., VP Practice, INFORMS Board of Directors

Applying Advanced Analytics to U.S. Naval Problems
Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) capabilities for the U.S. Navy and its allies. In this talk, we discuss two Wagner Associates’ ASW-related projects for the U.S. Navy. The first, entitled Coordinated ASW Mission Planning (CAMP), harkens back to the early days of the company, when Daniel H. Wagner, the founder of the company, focused on assisting the U.S. Navy in the search for threat submarines. The second project, Fusion and Optimization for Command and Control of Unmanned Systems (FOCUS), is exploring the use of computer science formal methods in designing and recommending mission plans for mixed teams of manned and unmanned systems in complex contested environments.