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Richard E. Zimmerman won the 1956 Lanchester Prize for his paper “A Monte Carlo Model for Military Analysis”. At the time of his award, Zimmerman’s model was actively being applied by two separate OR groups in the US Armed Forces.

Norman Agin also worked at Mathematica, Inc. in Princeton and published a number of articles on Inventory Management, Branch and Bound solution methods, and corporate planning models.

Walter Edward Cushen was a pioneer in military field OR problems and went on to
serve as the 19th President of the Operations Research Society of America in 1970.

Mark J. Eisner. Did O.R. in south east Asia when at ORO/RAC. Did important research in chance-constrained/probabistic optimization. Later, as a member of the faculty at Cornell's School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, directed the Masters of Engineering program, which was named as one of the top three such programs in the U.S. according to the UPS George D. Smith awards committee. Played a key role in establishing the History and Traditions C0mmittee at INFORMS.

Anthony V. Fiacco and his colleague, Garth McCormick, won the 1968 Lanchester Prize for their book: Nonlinear Programming: Sequential Unconstructed Minimization Techniques. The SUMT approach is in many ways a predecessor of later Interior Point solution methods.

Alfred H. Hausrath conducted research and published a February 1954 Operations Research article on the
benefits of racially integrated units in the United States Army,
bucking unscientific assumptions previously held by military brass.

Garth P. McCormick. His 1976 paper: "Computability of global solutions to factorable nonconvex programs: part I: convex underestimating problems," established a general and very successful methodolgy for solving difficult non-convex problems.

Garth P. McCormick. His 1976 paper: "Computability of global solutions to factorable nonconvex programs: part I: convex underestimating problems," established a general and very successful methodolgy for solving difficult non-convex problems.

Marvin Hoffenberg joined ORO after stints with the US Department of Labor and RAND, where he co-authored A Time Series Analysis of Interindustry Demands with Kenneth Arrow. During his subsequent tenure at UCLA, he became a well known for his work at the intersection of public policy and economics.

Ellis A. Johnson was the director of ORO and played a major role in advocating for operations research
applications for the US Armed Forces during World War II and the Korean War.