George C. Marshall Associations

George C. Marshall Associations – Bulgaria

Projects

2004

  1. Analysis of operational effectiveness of a set of field C2 modules for emergency management – a project financed by the Standing Government Committee for Protection of the Population against Natural Disasters, Emergencies and Catastrophes (SGCPPNDEC), (June-December 2004), Project Director: Prof. DEc. Tsvetan Semerdjiev, IPP-BAS (project budget – 40 000 Euro);
  2. White Paper on Civil Protection – a project financed by the Standing Government Committee for Protection of the Population against Natural Disasters, Emergencies and Catastrophes (SGCPPNDEC), (June-December 2004), Project Director: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Velizar Shalamanov, CNSDR-BAS (project budget – 25 000 Euro);
  3. Early Warning and Policy Perspectives in the Transatlantic Security Agenda: Central and East European Pint of View, Amb.Lyubomir Ivanov, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Velizar Shalamanov and team, funded by US GMF.

2005

  1. NATO SfP 981149 “Operations Research Support to Force and Operations Planning in the New Security Environment” , Project Director: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Velizar Shalamanov, 2005 – 2008;
  2. Methodology for Modelling and Analysis of Critical Infrastructure, Identification of Interdependencies, Evaluation of Vulnerabilities and Risks and Planning of Capabilities for Protection, (Science project # EC07 to Working Program for 2005), financed by SGCPPNDEC, 2005), Project Director: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Todor Tagarev, CNSDR-BAS (project budget – 18 000 Euro);
  3. Methodology for Analysis and Protection of Critical Information Infrastructure – a project financed by the State Agency for Communication and Information Technologies (October 2005 – January 2006), Project Director: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Velizar Shalamanov, CNSDR-BAS (project budget – 5 000 Euro), Contract № IRD 22/08/09.2005 with State Agency on ICT;
  4. Analysis and Adaptation of Models from NATO C3 Agency and EU for Assessment, Decision-Support and Planning of Computer-Assisted Exercises on Emergency Management – a project financed by the Standing Government Committee for Protection of the Population against Natural Disasters, Emergencies and Catastrophes (SGCPPNDEC), (June- December 2005), Project Director: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Velizar Shalamanov, IPP-BAS (project budget – 20 000 Euro), BAS Order № I-835/29. 07.2005;
  5. Architecture for integration of the information systems for control in crisis situations- stationary and on the field – a project financed by SGCPPNDEC, (June – December 2005), Project Director: Prof. DSc. Tsvetan Semerdjiev, IPP-BAS (project budget – 50 000 Euro), BAS Order № I-836/29. 07.2005.

2006

  1. The Officers in the Reserve: A Natural Bridge between the Armed Forces and the Civil Society, Union of the Officers in the Reserve ‘Atlantic’: Participants: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Velizar Shalamanov,Assoc. Prof. Dr. Todor Tagarev, Lt. Gen. (Ret) Anyu Angelov, funded by US Embassy;
  2. Joint Bulgarian – American Military Facilities – Public Opinion, Strategic, political, economic and ecology aspects, Participants: Amb. Lyubomir Ivanov, Prof. Plamen Pantev, Lt. Gen (Ret) Anu Angelov, Dr. Velizar Shalamanov, Prof. Tilcho Ivanov, Valentin Bogoev, Zhivko Georgiev, The Atlantic Club of Bulgaria, funded by US Embassy;
  3. EU TACOM-SEE 2006 – Terrorist Act Consequences Management – exercise project financed by the European Commission, DG Environment (December 2005 – December 2006), CAX component, Project Director: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Velizar Shalamanov, IPP-BAS (project budget – 400 000 Euro);
  4. Joint Training Simulation & Analysis Centre – project financed by the Ministry of State Policy for Disasters and Accidents (January-December 2006), Project Director: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Velizar Shalamanov, IPP-BAS (project budget – 50 000 Euro)
  5. IEMS Feasibility Study with Winbourne and Costas / USTDA for MoSPDA, Republic of Bulgaria, Project Director (for Bulgariua): Assoc. Prof. Dr. Velizar Shalamanov;
  6. Modelling and Simulation in Emergency Response Planning and Training, NATO RTO MSG-049, 2006-2009, Project Director: Dr. Zlatogor Minchev.

2007

  1. NATO SfP 981149 “Operations Research Support to Force and Operations Planning in the New Security Environment” , Project Director: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Velizar Shalamanov, 2005 – 2008;
  2. The Shift from National to Civil/Societal Security: Towards Effective Transformation of the Security Sector, project financed by Bulgaria’s National Science Fund under contract VU-1037/05 (2005 – 2007), Project Director: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Todor Tagarev, DSC “G.S. Rakovski” (project budget – 15 000 Euro);
  3. Operational analysis of the national security and defence system, operational analysis of the organizational practices based on set of defence planning scenarios – a project financed by the Ministry of Defence of Republic of Bulgaria (May – November 2007), Project Director: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Velizar Shalamanov, IPP-BAS (project budget – 30 000 Euro).

2008

  1. NATO SfP 981149 “Operations Research Support to Force and Operations Planning in the New Security Environment” , Project Director: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Velizar Shalamanov, 2005 – 2008;
  2. Methodology for CIP on municipality level, Project Director Prof. Stefan Hadjitodorov (CNSDR with Electron Progress for MoSPDA)
    16. Analysis of the Production of the Armed Forces, Project Director: Prof. Dr. Tilcho Ivanov (for MoD);
  3. IEMS / 112 ECS Feasibility Study for Gdansk, with Winbourne and Costas / USTDA for the Municipality of Gdansk / Poland, Project Manager: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Velizar Shalamanov;
  4. Study on security research in security sector change management in Bulgaria “SECRES-2008”, Project leader: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Velizar Shalamanov;
  5. Basic (low cost / budget) Environment for Simulation and Training in Emergency Situations (BEST), presented at BAIT-2008 and awarded with special recognition, Project Leader: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Velizar Shalamanov (Shalamanov, V., Minchev, Z., Tsankov, A., Georgiev, S., Tsenkov, Y. And Niemeyer, K. (consultant) Low cost System for Computer Assisted eXercises, Sofia, November 4-8, BAIT Expo, 2008 in Bulgarian);
  6. Participation in FORESEC with CLS in FP7, Project Director: (for Bulgaria) Ms. Antoanette Primatarova.

2009

  1. Управление на промяната в сложни организации при висока степен на неопределеност, 2009-2011, Проектен директор:  доц. д-р Тодор Тагарев;
  2. Проблеми на сигурността и реформата в сектора за сигурност – Новата стратегическа концепция на НАТО, съвместно със:  Сдружение “Джордж Маршал – България”, 2009-2010, Проектен директор: под. полк. (о-р от резерва) Илия Налбантов, Проектен ко-директор: д-р Златогор Минчев;
  3. Modelling and Simulation in Emergency Response Planning and Training, NATO RTO MSG-049, 2006-2010, Project Co-director:Dr. Zlatogor Minchev, Project Director: Dr. Jean-Pierre Faye, Thales-Raytheon, France;
  4. Интегритет в отбраната: ефективно, прозрачно и отговорно управление, с подкрепата на: Euro-Atlantic Education Initiative foundation, US Trade & Development Agency, German Marshall Fund-Balkan Trust for Democracy, Проектен директор: Ms.Avgustina Tsvetkova, 2009.

2010

  1. Управление на промяната в сложни организации при висока степен на неопределеност, 2009-2011, Проектен директор:  доц. д-р Тодор Тагарев;
  2. Проблеми на сигурността и реформата в сектора за сигурност – Новата стратегическа концепция на НАТО, съвместно със:  Сдружение “Джордж Маршал – България”, 2009-2010, Проектен директор: под. полк. (о-р от резерва) Илия Налбантов, Проектен ко-директор: доц. д-р Златогор Минчев;
  3. Foresight Security Scenarios: Mapping Research to a Comprehensive Approach to Exogenous EU Roles (FOCUS, FP7-SEC-2010-1, 2010-2012, Project director: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Todor Tagarev
  4. A European Network of Excellence in Managing Threats and Vulnerabilities in the Future Internet: Europe for the World (SysSec), FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2010-2014, jointly with: Department of Distributed Systems and Networking, IIC-BAS, Project Director: Acad. Kiril Boyanov;
  5. Modelling and Simulation in Emergency Response Planning and Training, NATO RTO MSG-049, 2006-2010, Project Co-director:Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zlatogor Minchev, Project Director: Dr. Jean-Pierre Faye, Thales-Raytheon, France.