The MORS Certificate in Wargaming is a five-day course designed to enhance analyst capability and knowledge in multiple aspects of professional games, including research, design, development, execution, analysis, and reporting. Through a combination of lectures and exercises, participants will learn the theory behind wargames before diving into research design and execution. Building on Peter Perla’s theory of the “Architect, Artis...

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...

Overview:The MORS Gaming Emergency Response to Disease Course is a three-day course focused on the application of professional games to problems associated with public health response. It covers pandemic response games—both national and international—as well as the problems of novel and unique organisms, biological warfare and terrorism, mental health, and chronic disease games. Objectives:Our expert instructors will teach particip...

Overview:Gaming Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD – defined as Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological agents) will be a three-day course focused on developing and executing games related to WMD in all its forms. While the basics of WMD capabilities and game design will be discussed, this will be a course focused on the intersection of WMD and gaming. It will not be either a WMD or gaming course; for those topics see other offerings. Objectives...

Overview:The MORS Certificate in National Security Risk Analysis is a five-day course designed for all levels of analysts seeking to understand the basic concept of risk as it relates to national security. Probability, uncertainty, consequences, fear, and human control all come into play when it comes to security risk. The course will start by exploring typically fuzzy problems and move them towards quantitative risk evaluation. Throughout the...

OverviewMORS is proud to host the 2026 Artificial Intelligence Workshop, the next step in advancing knowledge and practice in AI and autonomy for the military and national security community. Building on the successes of our 2019 and 2021 AI-focused workshops, this event will continue to capture and share concrete lessons learned while building a body of knowledge that enables analysts to research, develop, field, and apply AI-enabled capabili...

For 60 years the annual MORS Symposium has been the national security operations research community’s premier forum to exchange insight, examine emerging research, and address the most complex analytic challenges facing our nation. Each year, the Symposium brings together roughly 1,000 operations research and analytic professionals representing military, government, industry, and academia to share best practices, sharpen analytic approac...