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Ms. Laura L. Worcester, Director, Human-Technology Integration Assessment Center Ms. Worcester is the Director of the Human-Technology Integration Assessment Center at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. She provides technical oversight on many DoD and Naval Science and Technology (S&T) development projects, as well as management oversight on studies and analyses being conducted within her Center. She has contributed to many of the Institute research efforts and technical reports, including MARITECH and National Missile Defense (NMD). She also participated in the M&S portion of Assessing Technologies for Terrorism Consequence Management Study. Ms. Worcester has over twenty-one years technical and programmatic experience in managing science and technology research programs, including providing technology assessment and risk analysis expertise. Ms. Worcester is leading a study to determine where Marine Corps S&T may leverage multi-million dollar investment in DoD human systems S&T on behalf of the Marine Corps Program Manager for Training Systems (PM TRASYS) in Orlando, FL. In that capacity, she is leading the effort to develop a memorandum of agreement for technical and programmatic integration (basic science through applied research) among ONR30, the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab, and US Army Natick Soldier Center in support of joint human performance S&T research. She is proficient at assessing the feasibility and soundness of technology, management, and business plans, (including detailed POA&Ms) and at d eveloping S&T roadmaps with 5- and 10-year milestones Ms. Worcester provides program management and analysis support to various modeling, simulation, and virtual environment S&T projects at the Naval Research Laboratory. Previously, Ms. Worcester was the technical lead for the Medical Research and Development study performed for ONR. Key recommendations from the study were utilized by the ONR Biomedical S&T Program Officer, while participating in a study to implement policy on the restructuring of the Navy Medical S&T system. In the Medical S&T Division of the Human Systems Department at ONR, Ms. Worcester provided program management, specifically, financial planning and project execution, for Military Operational Medicine and Combat Casualty Care S&T Programs. Prior to joining the Potomac Institute, Ms. Worcester performed systems engineering and technical assistance for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Program. Ms. Worcester was responsible for coordinating the M&S technology component projects that comprised a large-scale, Joint-service, synthetic “battlespace” training exercise. She was instrumental in the execution of the technology programs that were transitioned to the services and are used in many different applications today. Ms. Worcester has been managing government programs since 1988. During the period 1988-1991, Ms. Worcester supported the Marine Corps’ Maritime Prepositioning Force (MPF) Program by preparing and editing logistical technical manuals, and by performing studies and analyses in all aspects of the program, including Explosive Safety Quantity Distance and Ship Safety; Roll-On/Roll-Off Discharge Facilities on Maritime Prepositioning Ships; and MPS Emergency Offload Planning. During the period 1984-1988, Ms. Worcester was a budget analyst for the Navy Comptroller in the Administrative/Fiscal Division. She was responsible for assisting in the development of NAVCOMPT budgets and internal policies and procedures. Ms. Worcester has a Master’s Degree in Public Administration, with concentrations in Public Finance and Public Policy, from The American University. She is a Certified Modeling and Simulation Professional (CMSP). She completed the DAU S&T Manager Coruse (STM 301). She has authored and co-authored numerous articles and technical reports/presentations for a variety of technical and academic publications. Ms. Worcester received a Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts from The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Specialty Areas: Science and Technology Program Management RDT&E Budget Issues Congressional Interest Programs Human Subject Use Policies and Procedures Modeling and Simulation Defense Acquisition Process Training and Human Performance Science and Technology Technology Transition
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