Dr. Williamson is a research associate professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He served as a Marine Corps helicopter pilot from 1983 to 1989. He supported DARPA programs in device physics with the Mayo Clinic’s Special Purpose Processor Development Group while earning his doctorate and has worked with several defense contractors and analysts. 

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From Battleship to Chess

By William Williamson III
July 2020
Winner of the Emerging & Disruptive Technologies Essay Contest, sponsored by MITRE. The Navy must exploit the new, more transparent information-rich environment to create new operational concepts.