Operations Research Office
The Operations Research Office ( ORO for short ) was a civilian center for military research founded by the United States Army in 1948 . It was affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University . It is considered one of the founding institutes of Operations Research as an interdisciplinary science.
The ORO offices were originally at Fort Lesley J. McNair ( Washington, DC ). In 1952 they moved to Chevy Chase , Maryland . After the termination of the contract with Johns Hopkins University, the Operations Research Office was dissolved in 1961. Shortly after the dissolution, the Research Analysis Corporation was founded, which took over most of the staff on the ORO projects. The RAC was funded by the US Army until June 1972.
The ORO was particularly concerned with the Special Purpose Individual Weapon program, which was the forerunner of the Small Arms Master Plan .
literature
- Charles R. Shrader: History of operations research in the United States Army, Vol. I: 1942-62; 2006, ISBN 0-1607-2961-0
Individual evidence
- ^ Ron Theodore Robin: The Making of the Cold War Enemy, 2001, ISBN 0-6910-1171-0 , p. 51