By Jesse Kemp, CANA Principal Program Manager Across all the military services, wargaming has become an increasingly popular tool to test new warfighting concepts, examine the use of new technologies, and exercise various scenarios against near-peer and peer adversaries. As an example, the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory executes 10-12 wargames per year, with multiple overlapping game lines of effort running simultaneously. Yet despite its broad adaptation, wargaming has

New Year, New You! We don’t always keep annual resolutions, but it never stops us from making new ones! Year after year, there’s always a bright New Year’s light of enthusiasm that shines down and makes us think anything is possible. It’s also the time we find the right inspirational message or mantra to shape a whole new year of thinking…and doing. What energizes us personally always carries over to work, and we’re committed to making sure we cross the CANA start - and finis

Now that you have the plans, communicate them.  A plan will do no good if it is written, sits on a shelf and is never looked at

When it comes to ocean shipping, planning for major weather events within your advanced planning systems is critical to ensure on-time delivery. CANA’s Walt DeGrange will be presenting on this topic “Avoiding Tropical Cyclones in Automated Naval Logistics Planning” during next week’s Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) Annual Meeting. If you’ll be there, stop by his presentation on Wednesday, November 12th, at 12:45. Abstract: ”The US Navy’s C

Have you ever wondered how that ‘thing’ that you purchased (whether on-line or in a store) gets to you – a place where you can touch, feel and use it? Have you ever wondered about the complex network of suppliers, distributors, stockers, and customer service organizations that are involved in this seemingly automatic transaction? Do you think about ‘what if’ something happened in the world (e.g. an earthquake in Japan, a tsunami in China, a labor strike in California, a cyb