A major theme of almost everything I have done is the incorporation of real-world-based data into formal analysis. You can make a difference; potentially make a very big difference.
Operations Evaluation Group – Fleet Operations and Support
Research Analyst / Field Representative
Dr. Brian McCue, who joined CNA’s Center for Naval Analyses in 1996, has worked on a wide range of issues, including the capture, analysis, and modeling of queuing data at a mock vaccination clinic (Arlington County, Virginia); system accuracy, including of mortars, bombs, and laser sighting devices; design of the “bibliometric” part of CNA’s study of industrial basic research; and standards and testing of police body armor.
Another major focus of McCue’s work has been in the area of analysis of search and search-related operations—for example, he has analyzed the operation of the proposed Small ICBM (an intercontinental, single warhead, land-mobile ballistic missile) and its proposed mobile launch control center. He has also analyzed search performance in undersea warfare exercises, worked at the Office of Technology Assessment on the military utility of commercial imaging satellites, and done modeling and simulation work at CNA as well as at the National Defense University.
McCue has been a field representative since 2004 and is currently serving at U.S. Fleet Forces Command in Norfolk, Va. Prior to his field assignment, he worked on the CNA project “The Art of Military Experimentation” and provided support to various projects within CNA’s Institute for Public Research, including: the TOPOFF exercise; the Arlington County, Virginia Vaccination Site Test; reconstruction of the Dirksen Building white powder incident; and the mass casualty game for the New York Department of Public Health.
Prior to joining CNA, McCue worked for the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment (1989-95); was a Senior Fellow at the National Defense University’s Institute for National Strategic Studies (1987-89); was a Senior Systems Analyst at McDonnell Douglas’ Washington Studies and Analysis Group (1985-87); and was a Research Associate at Systems Research and Applications Corporation (1983-85).
McCue earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an S.M. in Political Science from MIT, and an A.B. in Mathematics from Hamilton College.
He is the author of
U-Boats in the Bay of Biscay (National Defense University Press, 1990), and is a member of the Military Operations Research Society (Department editor – Naval Analysis,
Phalanx)
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