Recognize Excellence: Nominate a Deserving Peer
MORS’ prizes and awards call attention to excellence, advances in the field and individuals of distinction. Click on each individual award or prize to learn more information and to see the listing of previous winners. Contact recognition@mors.org with any questions.
Annual Distinguished Awards
Vance R. Wanner: The Wanner Award recognizes a national security operations research professional who has played a major role in strengthening the profession. Deadline: 18 February 2025
Clayton J. Thomas: The Thomas Award recognizes an individual who has, through his or her involvement in the field of national security operations research, exhibited sustained outstanding individual performance and contributions, shared knowledge and talents with others in the field, and provided technically sound options to national security decision-makers. Deadline: 18 February 2025
Annual Notable Awards
Wayne P. Hughes, Jr.: The purpose of the Hughes Award is to recognize early career and Junior Analysts who are already making an impact on operations research. Deadline: 18 February 2025
MOR Journal: The MOR Journal award recognizes exemplary peer-refereed research, whose authors apply scientific methods to build quantitative models, manipulate data, and evaluate results. Anyone who publishes in the MOR Journal in the previous calendar year is eligible to receive this award.
John K. Walker, Jr.: “The Magazine of National Security Analysis”: The purpose of this award is to recognize the author(s) of the technical article judged to be the best published in PHALANX, The Bulletin of Military Operations Research, during the previous calendar year. Anyone who publishes in the Phalanx in the previous calendar year is eligible to receive this award.