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ANSER Supports ONR on Innovative Wargame Exercise

Arlington, VA - ANSER, an operating unit of Analytic Services Inc. has helped facilitate the Navy’s first crowd sourced online war game environment. The pilot’s title: Massive Multiplayer Online Wargame Leveraging the Internet (MMOWGLI), allows users from multiple disciplines within and outside of the Navy to participate in a rapidly paced online strategy game.

The purpose of MMOWGLI is to foster a fluid online environment where all users are encouraged and incentivized to offer their expertise for potential solutions for the struggle against piracy and other emerging challenges. Players generate ideas and solutions while simultaneously building on the contributions of other players. The piracy scenario was chosen as a means to demonstrate the platform, but MMOWGLI itself can be applied to any scenario. Currently, there are over 9,000 users signed up to participate in a piracy game set off the coast of Somalia.

MMOWGLI is sponsored and managed by the Office of Naval Research’s Office of Innovation and developed by the Naval Postgraduate School and the Institute for the Future.

This new and innovative idea has recently been covered by Fast Company, PC Magazine, Wired, and the Washington Post. To register and participate in the MMOWGLI exercise, cut and past the link below into your browser:

http://mmowgli.nps.edu/mmowgli

To learn more about how Analytic Services can assist your organization with collaborative crowd sourcing solutions, please contact Robert Edson, Vice President of Enterprise Development.

About Analytic Services Inc.

Analytic Services Inc. is a not-for-profit public service institute that provides objective studies and analyses to aid decision-makers throughout the national security, homeland security, and public safety communities. Services are delivered through ANSER; the Homeland Security Studies and Analysis Institute (HSI) a Federally Funded Research and Development Center operated on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); and the Applied Systems Thinking (ASysT) Institute.