MORS-Talk: A Collaborative M&S Environment: Enterprise Tools, Licensing, and Access to Compute

Join us Friday, 28 August at noon ET for the next MORS-Talk. Mr. Mark Stankiewicz will join us to present A Collaborative M&S Environment: Enterprise Tools, Licensing, and Access to Compute.

This discussion will explore stitching together disparate networks and offering a user interface to access tools and enterprise licensing with the ability to leverage HPC, Commercial cloud, and on-prem compute resources.

Mr. Mark D. Stankiewicz is Acting Chief Modeling and Simulation Officer and Director of Enterprise Modeling and Simulation at the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force Studies and Analysis (SAF/SA) at the Pentagon. He reports to the Director of SAF/SA, the Secretary, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and the Chief of Space Operations, for developing and implementing the Department of the Air Force (DAF) enterprise modeling and simulation strategy.

He leads a military, civilian, and contractor group examining and developing architectures to provide the DAF with a model repository, shared license library, and single login authentication across networks. His team manages the Advanced Framework for Simulation (AFSIM) at the joint and enterprise level and is responsible for the development of the next generation of campaign analytic tools for the DoD. He sits as the Air Force’s liaison to the Office of the Secretary of Defense Analytic Working Group’s Modeling and Simulation sub-group.

Mr. Stankiewicz has over 24 years of experience in the U.S. Department of Defense, with the majority spent as an operations research analyst for the Department of the Air Force, developing strategic analysis and models. Mr. Stankiewicz started out designing manufacturing equipment in Massachusetts. In 1997, he moved to the DC area to design ship parts for the Navy as a contractor. He worked on the DDG 51 class Destroyers and the PMS 385 Strategic Sealift programs. In 1999, he switched contracting firms to support the Air Force, where he performed mission level analysis supporting Air Force POM scenarios in the Air Force Studies and Analyses office. In 2005, Mr. Stankiewicz was detailed to support Air Force Checkmate, providing strategic analytic support to current day operations. In addition to his experience with the Air Force, he served as an analyst for the Joint Staff J-8 Warfighting Analysis Directorate, analyzing and assessing current day operations plans. He spent five years as a technical advisor for future warfare analysis, reviewing and ensuring the analytic integrity of studies and analyses, and managing the resources and computing required to perform speed-of-relevance analysis informing senior leader decisions on future warfighting capabilities and resource allocation.