Dr. David “Fuzzy” Wells is the Director of the U.S. Pacific Command’s (USPACOM) Cyber War Innovation Center (CWIC) and the Technical Lead for COATS. A retired Air Force (AF) officer, his past assignments include: Chief Scientist for Research and Development at the Joint Warfare Analysis Center; Chief of Ops Assessment at AF Central Command’s Combined Air & Space Ops Center; Chair of Ops Research Working Group, Director of Modeling & Simulation (M&S) Education and Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the U.S. Air Force Academy; AF M&S lead for U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Millennium Challenge experiment while at the AF Agency for M&S; and Prime Warrior Course Director and AF lead for the Prairie Warrior exercise while at the AF Wargaming Institute. He has served as exercise designer and senior controller for battlestaff training exercises worldwide. He was the first AF officer to obtain a Ph.D. in Modeling, Virtual Environments and Simulation from the Naval Postgraduate School. He also earned the first M.S. in Modeling & Simulation from the AF Institute of Technology. He is a Certified Modeling & Simulation Professional Charter Member and a National Modeling & Simulation Coalition Plankholder.
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Cyber Operational Architecture Training System – Cyber for All
Current methods for conducting cyber training are incompatible with the traditional, simulation-based training architectures used to conduct battlestaff training. As a result, there is little to no interaction between the cyber domain and the traditional warfighting domains during exercises. This…
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