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EBR SENIOR PERSONNEL

Richard E. Hayes, Ph.D.

President and Senior Scientist
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Trained as an empirical political scientist focused on decisionmaking, Dr. Richard E. Hayes has been conducting basic and applied research on military command and control (C2) issues since 1980. His current focus is primarily on the emerging theory behind network centric operations (NCO) and "edge" organizations and the capture and analysis empirical evidence related to the effectiveness and agility of C2 systems.

Margaret Daly Hayes, Ph.D.
Vice President and Principal of EBR Associates

Dr. Margaret Daly Hayes is a distinguished scholar with specialization in U.S.-Latin American relations,and Latin American governance, political economy and security issues. From November 1997 to March 2004 she served as founding Director of the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies (CHDS) at the National Defense University. As Director (SES-04 equiv), she developed the Center’s curriculum and worked with defense ministries, parliamentary committees and other government agencies to strengthen security sector governance, civil-military relations, and civilian management and oversight capabilities throughout the hemisphere. While at CHDS, she helped launch a number of Defense White Paper projects in the region and recently consulted with the developers of Nicaragua’s National Defense Book. [full biography]

David T. Signori, Ph.D.
Chief Scientist

Dr. Signori spearheads initiatives and research related to C4ISR and Force Transformation. Prior to joining EBR, Dr. Signori served as a research leader at the RAND Corporation; The Special Assistant to the Director of DARPA for Warfare Information Technology; Deputy Director of DISA, Vice Manager of the National Communication System, Associate Director for Engineering and Technology, and Director of the Center for Command and Control and Communication Systems at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA); The Associate Director of the Systems Evaluation Division at the Institute of Defense Analyses (IDA).

Dennis K. Leedom, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
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Dr. Leedom joined Evidence Based Research, Inc. after a distinguished 36-year career with the Department of Defense. With a combined background in both the engineering sciences and behavioral sciences, he has led numerous major research and engineering projects focused on understanding the role of humans and technology in military command and control. His multidisciplinary background -coupled with first-hand observation and evaluation of military command and staff operations-is particularly suited for translating current theory from the cognitive and social sciences into the analytical environment of modeling and simulation.

David F. Noble, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
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Dr. Noble has over 20 years of experience in collaboration analysis, in research on the cognitive basis of situation understanding, decisionmaking, and expertise, and in applying this research to development of advanced analytical tools to support intelligence operations, data fusion, decisionmaking, and plan assessment. In current work for Office of Naval research, Dr. Noble is leading research on the cognitive foundations of effective teamwork, and has developed an analytical tool to help teams diagnose and fix collaboration problems.

 



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