SCOTT BREOR currently serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary (Acting) for the Office of Infrastructure Protection (IP) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD), where he helps oversee IP’s efforts to help secure the nation’s critical infrastructure. Previously, Mr. Breor served as the Director of IP’s Protective Security Coordination Division (PSCD), where he oversaw a nationwide cadre of critical infrastructure security specialists known as Protective Security Advisors (PSAs). He also led the division’s efforts in vulnerability and security gap analysis; support to special events; and training on topics including active shooter preparedness; suspicious activity reporting; and improvised explosive device (IED) awareness and bomb threat management. Mr. Breor has over thirty years of military and senior executive experience in the United States government. Prior to DHS, Mr. Breor was a Naval Aviator and had served as the Senior Policy Advisor for the Chief of Naval Operations on all Homeland Security matters. While assigned to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) he led a division that supported the CNO on key warfare and Homeland Security and Defense policy decisions, which included: interagency coordination, incident management, and Department of Homeland Security/Department of Defense integration. For his work for the CNO and his efforts following the tragic events of September 11, 2001 at the Pentagon, he was awarded the Legion of Merit. As a Naval Aviator he supported operations in Iceland, Greenland, Adriatic, Mediterranean, Azores, and South America. Mr. Breor was a Senior Executive Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He received a Masters of Arts in National Security Studies and in Homeland Security and Defense from the Naval Post Graduate School, and received a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Oklahoma. In addition, he earned a Bachelor of Science in Physics from The Citadel.

RUSSELL CHENG is Emeritus Professor at Southampton having been Professor of Operational Research and Head of the OR Group from 1999 to 2007, in the School of Mathematics. He obtained an MA from Cambridge University, and a PhD from the University of Bath. He was previously Deputy Director of the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics and Head of Management Science at the University of Kent at Canterbury. His research interests have been in: Design and Analysis of Simulation Experiments, Non-standard Parametric Estimation, Computer Generated Graphics, Optimal Control of Industrial Processes, and Marine Simulation. He is a former Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications, and is a past Chairman of the United Kingdom Simulation Society. He is a past Board Member of EUROSIM, the Federation of Simulation Societies in Europe. He has been an Associate Editor of Management Science and was Joint Editor of the IMA Journal of Mathematics Applied in Business and Industry, and then founding Editor of the IMA Journal of Management Mathematics for which he received, in 2008, the IMA’s Certificate of Service. He was Council member of the INFORMS Simulation Society (2006-08) and received the Society’s Distinguished Service Award in 2007 and Lifetime Professional Achievement Award in 2016. He was the Consultant Research Director of Norcontrol Imaging Systems Ltd, a subsidiary of Norcontrol a.s., the largest manufacturer of marine simulators world-wide. He is author of the book Non-Standard Parametric Statistical Inference published in 2017 by Oxford University Press. He is currently a course lecturer in the UK’s National Taught Course Centre in Operational Research (NATCOR) which delivers nationwide residential courses to UK research students in OR and Management Science.

REINER K. HUBER is Emeritus Professor at the Universität der Bundeswehr München (UniBwM – University of the German Armed Forces, Munich). He received his academic education from 1954 to 1960 at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) majoring in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering and, as a Fulbright Scholar, at the University of Texas majoring in Industrial Engineering. He then served as Technical Officer of the Luftwaffe for three years. In 1964 he joined the OR Group of Germany’s newly founded defense support institution IABG as an analyst where he later became head of its Systems Studies Division. As part time research assistant at the TUM he received his Dr,-Ing (PhD) in 1970. In 1975 he was appointed Chair of Applied Systems Science and OR (with emphasis on defense and security issues) in the Department of Computer Science of UniBwM. There, he was dean and member of the Senate from 1981 to 1986. In 2000 he became Emeritus. From 1971 to 1976 he was a member of the NATO-Science Committee’s Advisory Panel on OR (APOR) and the Special Program of Systems Science (SPOSS). He was visiting professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, in 1979 and 1983, and visiting lecturer at the Korean Institute of Defense Analysis in Seoul (1980), the Royal Military College of Science at Shrivenham (1985), and the Military Operations Research and Analysis Institute at the Academy of Military Science in Beijing (1988). He organized and led several international conferences on defense and security analysis and has been a long-time research associate of Vector Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, a consultant to NATO and the German Ministry of Defense and he is a Senior Fellow of the Potomac Foundation in Vienna, Virginia. In recognition of his cooperation with Russian analysts after the end of the Cold War he was elected associate member of the Russian Academy of Natural Science in 1995. His recent work is focused on Command and Control for complex endeavors.