Operational Research Society News

The OR Society fully endorses this statement on Russia’s Attack on Ukraine, which was co-signed by the Royal Society and other National Academies of the G7 States.

Executive Director of the National Research Foundation of Ukraine (NRFU) Dr Olga Polotska has appealed to the international community to help her country’s scientists, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The United Nations’ Department of Peace Operations has collated operational data on peace and security missions into a new repository, simply called ‘The Data Hub’. This free public library of datasets on peace and security has been published by the UN with the aim of empowering ‘data consumers’ across the world.

The US Army is experimenting with a ‘new’ training programme that pairs military personnel with civilian experts to improve operational capability.

The European Commission is considering imposing a temporary ban on facial recognition technologies, according to the draft of a leaked white paper on Artificial Intelligence.