Operational Adaptation Conference
The University of Edinburgh
22-24 June 2010

Conference Presentations

WEDNESDAY 23 JUNE 2010

Session 1-1: The Importance of Adaptation

Jim McMains (ONR) - The "Operational Adaptation" Program

Douglas Cullins (USMC) - Adaptation in Modern War

Frank Hoffman (SECNAV) - "Adversary Adaptation; The Emergence of Hybrid Threats"

Session 1-2: The Problem of Adaptation in Irregular Warfare

Bradley Thayer (Baylor Univ) - "The Enemy Votes: Red vs. Blue Adaptation in Irregular Warfare"

Terry Taylor (ICLS) - "Adaptation and Networking Across Conflicted Borders"

Martin Kruger (ONR) - Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR)*

Dominic Johnson (Univ Edinburgh) - Darwinian Selection in Asymmetric War

Robin Dunbar (Univ Oxford) - Is there an Optimal Human Group Size?

Session 1-3: Tools for Understanding Adaptation

Dan Blumstein (UCLA) - "Adapting to life with predators: lessons from behavioral ecology for security"

Sasha Dall (Univ Exeter) - "Scales of risk and adaptive fear: terror attacks from an evolutionary perspective"

Michael Hochberg (Univ Montpellier) - Epidemiological Approaches to Terrorism

James Moffat (DSTL) - "Complex Adaptive Modelling of Complex Conflict"

Ferenc Jordan (Microsoft Research) - Adaptation in Networks

Session 1-4: Adaptation in Social Systems

Gary Kollmorgen (ONR) - Research Needs in Irregular Conflicts

Neil Johnson (Univ Miami) - Ecological Models of Conflict

Alex Mesoudi (Queen Mary's Univ) - "Adaptation by Cultural Evolution"

Rich Sosis (Univ Connecticut) - "Understanding the Adaptability of Religious Extremism"

Evening Keynote Talk

Rafe Sagarin (Univ Arizona) & Terry Taylor (ICLS) - "Natural Security: A Framework for Adaptation"

THURSDAY 24 JUNE 2010

Session 2-1: Adapation in Individuals and Groups

Michael Price (Brunel Univ) - "Psychological Adaptation and Organizational Adaptability"

Richard Webb (Consultant) - "Raising Innovation Capability in Organisations"

Mark Van Vugt (VU Univ Amsterdam) - Leadership

Jeff Bearor (USMC) - "How to Develop Adaptive Leaders"

Jonathan Lamonte (RAF) - "Operational Adaptation in the Royal Air Force"

Session 2-2: Adaptation in Military Operations

Zoltan Jobbagy (Hungarian Defence Forces) - "Adaptation: A Bottom-Up Perspective"

Theo Farrel (King's College) - "British Military Adaptation in Helmand, 2006-2009"

Scott Field (NPS) - "Building an evolutionary framework for the study of military adaptation"

James Russell (NPS) - "COIN Adaptation in Afghanistan and Iraq"

Dan Moran (NPS) - "Strategic Adaptation to Disruptive Technology: The Naval Torpedo"

Session 2-3: Achieving "Adaptability"

Anne-Marie Grisogono (DSTO) - "Exploiting Adaptation"

Dwight Lyons (Potomac Institute) - "Integrated Technology Demonstration 1: S&T providing enabling capabilities for Operational Adaptation"

Session 2-4: Follow Up Plans

Jim McMains (ONR) - The ONR Broad Agency Announcement

Robb Wilcox (ONR) - ONRG Opportunities for Collaboration

POSTERS

Gregory Dietl (Cornell Univ) - "Coevolutionary Natural Security"

Patrizia Duda (Univ Edinburgh) - "Innovation in Counter-Terrorism: Water Security in the Middle East"

Dominic Johnson (Univ Edinburgh) – The Ecology of Insurgency

Jim McMains (ONR) - "Office of Naval Research"

Brian McQuinn (Oxford Univ) - Rebel Group Cohesion

Zoey Reeve (Univ Edinburgh) - A Social Identity Theory of radicalization

Brian Spisak - "Change We Can See: An Evolved Perception-Based Method for De-Radicalization"

Rafe Sagarin (Arizona) - The Natural Security Project

Robb Wilcox (ONRG) - Office of Naval Research Global