Regional Spotlight: The Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC) The Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC) is a not-for-profit, collaborative enterprise center of Old Dominion University. As a multi-disciplinary modeling, simulation and visualization collaborative research center managed through the Office of Research at ODU, VMASC also leads the University’s academic programs in Modeling and Simulation, offering multi-disciplinary M&S Masters and Ph.D. degrees to students across the Colleges of Engineering and Technology, Sciences, Education, and Business. VMASC partners with industry, government, military, and academia to focus on six core Modeling and Simulation (M&S) capabilities. These core capabilities are: Military M&S (primarily combat simulations), Homeland Security and Homeland Defense, Medical Simulations, Transportation, Serious Gaming, and Enterprise Executable Architectures. With more than one hundred industry, government, and academic members, VMASC furthers the development and application of modeling, simulation, and visualization as an enterprise decision-making tool and promotes economic development.  VMASC’s vision is to be a global leader in modeling and simulation (M&S) research and development and an integrator of M&S with visualization technologies. VMASC will be a portal for the nation's premier M&S educational programs. The economic development activities of VMASC are directed at expanding the application of modeling and simulation, especially with the opportunities to transfer modeling and simulation technology and know-how between the military and commercial sectors. Great care is taken to ensure the project exhibits the potential to expand in some way the current state-of-the-art in the application of modeling and simulation. LINK: VMASC Regional Spotlight Archive: Read More About What's Working in Hampton Roads