National Security Analysis Department Head
Warfare Analysis Business Area Head
Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory
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Ron Luman is Head of the National Security Analysis
Department (NSAD) at JHU/APL. With a staff of 180,
NSAD taps JHU/APL’s engineering and scientific
expertise, military and intelligence operational
experience, advanced simulation methodologies, and
sophisticated seminar and decision support
techniques to conduct analyses of critical national security issues
for U.S. Government sponsors. NSAD has provided independent
recommendations and guidelines on capabilities, systems, and
architectures for OSD, CNO, JFCOM, NSA, DARPA, DTRA, and other
sponsors. Under Dr. Luman’s leadership, NSAD‘s Warfare Analysis
Business Area is now focusing on the emergence of non-nation
state threats to national security.
Dr. Luman has expertise in applying systems engineering principles
to guidance system accuracy, unmanned undersea vehicles,
countermine warfare, ballistic missile defense, and intelligence
systems. He was chief analyst for the Joint Countermine Advanced
Concept Technology Demonstration and principal in a watershed
study to define the sea-based components of the ballistic missile
defense architecture. He was technical director for intelligence
systems engineering and architecture, and a member of the
National Academy of Sciences committee on the role of naval forces
in the global war on terror. He leads a cross-enterprise activity at
JHU/APL to understand future conflict and build appropriate
technical capabilities to counter unconventional warfare.
Dr. Luman earned his doctorate in operations research from the
George Washington University, received master’s degrees from
Michigan State and Johns Hopkins, and is a 1976 graduate of
Middlebury College. He was an Adjunct Professor of Systems
Engineering for the George Washington University at the U.S. Naval
Academy (1998–2002). In 2006, he initiated an annual symposium
on national security challenges posed by unrestricted warfare, in
collaboration with JHU’s School of Advanced International Studies:
http://www.jhuapl.edu/urw_symposium/. |
Warfare Analysis