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The Defence Operational Analysis Establishment (DOAE) was formed in 1965. DOAE provided operational analysis (OA) support across the defence sector.[http://www.sailwave.com/stuff/cv.pdf Curriculum Vitae for Colin Jenkins, accessed June 2009]
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"The Defence Operational Analysis Establishment (DOAE) was re-created as a Defence Support Agency on 1 July 1992, re-titled the Defence Operational Analysis Centre (DOAC) but still the responsibility of the Defence Scientific Staffs. DOAC was absorbed into the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) in 1995, as part of DERA's Centre for Defence Analysis."[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=4289&CATLN=3&Highlight=&FullDetails=True UK National Archives cataloge: Series details DEFE 48.]

Wargaming

DOAE were still playing wargames in 1967.[http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/214767/3/moody_final Alan Macfarlane interviewed by Alan Macfarlane on 17th August 2008] Macfarlane said that after finishing his PhD in mathematics: "I went to the Defence Operational Analysis Establishment who play war games; I also met Dr Hugh ApSimon, who had an algebra Ph.D. from Oxford and was a senior academic computer scientist at IBM Hursley; both of these environments offered interesting grounded problems that I was convinced would engage my brain in a way that research in mathematics had never done; King's came to the rescue and made the decision for me; at a dinner I sat next to Philip Noel-Baker, who asked what would be the productive element if I worked for the DOAE, and whether I would be happy with that thought; so I went to IBM; I joined IBM in February 1967".

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