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Vv. STAFFING AND SCHEDULE 
Stafing 
5.1 The organization of the study effort is planned as a project of the Systems 
Development Division of ORI, directed by Harvey D. Kushner. The organiza- 
tion chart of this group is shown in figure 8. The ORI study team will be sup- 
ported by ‘a team of experienced oceanographers who will be available to perform 
and/or participate in specific subtasks of the program. These will be drawn from 
the staff of Marine Advisers, Inc., and will be led by Paul L. Horrer. Additional 
Senior consulting help will be drawn upon for special problem assignments and 
for participation in technical review of the project tasks. ‘Technical direction 
and. the staff group from which project team members will be drawn are the fol- 
lowing. Brief biographies of the principal team members are included in this 
section. More detailed résumés are appended to the proposal. 
Overall technical director, Harvey D. Kushner, vice president. 
5.2, Overall technical direction of this program will be by Mr. Kushner, director 
of the Systems Development Division of ORI. Mr. Kushner is a graduate of the 
Johns Hopkins University School of Engineering. He was an associate marine 
engineer with the Bureau of Ships, U.S. Navy Department in the Scientific and 
Performance Branch of the Ship Design Division. He participated in and was 
responsible for preliminary design studies of a variety of new ship propulsion 
and machinery systems. At the Central Research Laboratory of Melpar, a 
division of Westinghouse Airbrake Co., he was a member of the technical staff 
of the fluid dynamics group. 
With ORI since 1955, he has directed operations research studies of a wide 
range of naval systems associated with surface and undersea warfare. He has 
directed studies of sonar systems, including development of analyses of the in- 
fluence of oceanographic conditions on sonar and acoustic weapon performance. 
Currently he is directing a study for the Committee on Undersea Warfare of the 
National Academy of Sciences that is to support a panel study by the Academy of 
the Navy’s research and development program for torpedo weapon systems. 
PROJECT LEADER, HAROLD NISSELSON, SENIOR SCIENTIST 
5.3. Mr. Nisselson is a mathematical statistician who is especially qualified by 
experience to direct the proposed program. As a mathematical statistician in the 
Office of the Assistant Director of the Bureau of the Census for Research and 
Development he planned and directed a number of special statistical research 
projects. These projects included methodological research programs in data 
collection, analysis, and evaluation techniques. On special assignment to the 
office of Charles Hitch, Assistant Secretary of Defense—Comptroller, he par- 
ticipated in the development of management information systems and the use of 
sampled data systems. His experience is unique in the design of large-scale data 
eollection programs, in the establishment of quality control procedures, and in 
the evaluation of data requirements and data program performance. 
PROJECT TASK TEAMS 
5.4. The proposed study is organized in project subtasks which will be staffed 
by personnel with ‘special qualifications for the particular assignments. 'These 
task teams will be drawn mainly from the following group of staff members 
whose biographies are included at the end of this section. 
Dr. Frank Brown, Program Director and Associate Director, Systems De- 
velopment Division: Physicist, experienced in system reliability analysis, sys- 
tem performance analysis, and meteorology. 
Dr. Merit Scott, senior scientist: Physicist, experienced in naval weapon 
systems analysis, ship systems studies, and particular oceanographic factors 
affecting the Polaris weapon system. 
Frank Falci, senior staff: Naval architect, experienced in ship system de- 
Sign and operational analyses of nayal systems. 
Dr. William J. Andrews, Associate Program Director, Systems Analysis: 
Physicist, experienced in navigation systems analysis, including those for Polaris 
system application. 
Dr. Girard L. Ordway, senior staff: Physical chemist, experienced in system 
error analysis, in programing for automatically handling communications traffic 
for the naval command control ship system, information retrieval systems. 
