Thank you!

Companies like the Center for Naval Analysis, Wagner Inc., Systems Planning and Analysis, CACI, SAIC, Mitre, RAND, etc. etc. do a lot of this sort of work. I swear what got me my job as that my background is in physics and I've played Harpoon since I was little. Send 'em your resume. CNA's Operations Evaluation Group is actually particularly neat because they send people to sea regularly. The company that I work for doesn't send people to sea that often, although so far, I've still gotten to spend some time aboard the USS ROBERT G BRADLEY, the USS ANZIO and the USS IWO JIMA. It's a cool job.


Possibly. It's hard to say. Right now the big buzz word is COTS (commerical off the shelf). The idea is that the military doesn't have to spend a million dollars developing a new toaster when they can go down to Walmart and get one. I think that video games are developing sufficent depth that people are getting interested in using them. I mean, heck, if you read Fleet Tactics and Coastal Combat he even says that there's an awful lot to be learned with contemporary video games. We'll see.

I think a lot of whether things are adopted or not depends a lot on the specifics of the software.