AOR Inc. Technical Staff

Dr. William Stevens, President is an applied mathematician and computer scientist with over 25 years of hands-on experience supporting Government, Military, and Industry clients in the areas of Operations Research, Modeling and Simulation, Systems Effectiveness Analysis, Decision Support System Design and Implementation, Information Technology Driven Process Improvements, and Experimental Design and Execution.  Dr. Stevens formed Applied Operations Research (AOR), Inc. in July 2006.

From 1985 through 2006 he was a senior employee of Metron, Inc., advancing during this time from Senior Applied Mathematician to Senior Vice President and Member of the Board of Directors.  In 1989 he opened and undertook technical and business management of Metron's West Coast operations.  Under Dr. Stevens technical leadership this operation grew during the period from November 1989 through June 2003 to include Metron’s Simulation Sciences and High Performance Computing Divisions which employ approximately 50 operations research and computer science professionals engaged in the design, development, and employment of information operations (IO) and command and control (C2) intensive modeling and simulation (M&S) and decision support systems for U.S. Government, Military, and Industry clients.  From 2003 to 2006 Dr. Stevens served as Technical Director of Metron West Coast Operations.  Prior to Metron, Dr. Stevens was an Associate at Daniel H. Wagner Associates, a member of the Professional Staff at the Center for Naval Analyses, an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Northeastern University, and an Applied Mathematician/Computer Scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.  Dr. Stevens received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics with concentration in Computational Fluid Dynamics from Brown University in 1979.

Dr. Stevens is the original designer and developer of the Naval Simulation System (NSS) and predecessor systems including the Common LISP Architectures Study Tool (COAST) and the Composite Warfare Model (CWM).  Dr. Stevens has led the development and use of these models in support of COMPACFLT, OPNAV, the Naval War College, the Fleet Battle Experiment (FBE) Program, Industry, and Navy Labs.  Under Dr. Stevens’ leadership, in excess of 50 major studies and exercises were supported by NSS and predecessor models.

Dr. Stevens is supporting the PEO C4I and Space/PMW-180 Littoral Battlespace Sensing, Fusion, and Integration (LBSF&I) Program with responsibility for LBSF&I Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) studies and LBSF&I Capability Development Documents (CDDs).