"“As a sociologist, I was being called on to try to figure out a way that the [Defense Department] could leverage some of the useful tools and methods and theories in the social sciences,” Bienenstock said."
"Both women added that this type of research is multidisciplinary and requires a full range of researchers.
“We need to bring to the table sociologists and anthropologists and political scientists and computational scientists and modelers,” Estabrooke said. “Everyone speaks a different language almost, so bringing these teams together and getting them to work well together takes some time and some effort.”
Office of Naval Research officials hope to connect with a diverse pool of researchers through several outreach efforts."