Steering Committee

Steering Chair

Mr. Paul Works

Director, Scenarios and Wargaming Directorate (SWD)
The Research and Analysis Center (TRAC) – Fort Leavenworth (TRAC-FLVN)
U.S. Army Futures Command (AFC)

As SWD Director, Mr. Paul Works leads a team of highly skilled military, civilian, and contractor personnel to conduct analytic wargames, develop Joint and Army scenarios, and lead analyses.

He is also a part time ASL scenario designer for the hobby community.

Portrait of Dr. Ed McGrady

Deputy Chair

Dr. Ed McGrady

Adjunct Senior Fellow, Center for New American Security
Instructor and Course Coordinator on Gaming, Military Operations Research Society
Principal, Monks Hood Media LLC

Dr. McGrady writes, speaks, and teaches on the design of professional games. He is an adjunct senior fellow in gaming at CNAS for the Game Lab, teaches and manages game design courses for MORS/Virginia Tech, and runs a business devoted to using games and game techniques to bring innovative experiences in new areas.

At the Connections 2023 conference he was given the Perla Award, the highest award in professional gaming. His book, Roll to Save: Gaming Disease Response, describes designing games in support of public health professionals.

Dr. McGrady has written, taught, and presented on the topic of games and their use in organizational and individual learning. He has designed and run games for many different clients ranging from the White House to the Department of Agriculture to the automotive industry. Recently he has been designing and running policy games for a variety of sponsors including radio, film, and television.

Dr. McGrady built and directed a team of 10-20 analysts at CNA (Center for Naval Analyses) devoted to the design and execution of professional games. In the past, he built a team at CNA devoted to chemical and biological response operations, including domestic response operations. Dr. McGrady has deployed as an analyst with US Forces in Haiti during operation Uphold Democracy, onboard the USS Nimitz for Desert Storm and with operational E-2C squadrons.

Dr. McGrady holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan. He has published extensively in the Chemical Engineering, physics, and national security literature and is widely cited for his work on the mathematics of aggregation and fragmentation.