Naval Research Logistics is a premier peer-reviewed journal in operations research applied statistics and general quantitative modeling. Founded in 1954 NRL has a distinguished history of publication of both seminal methodological contributions and innovative applications. NRL 's original focus on naval applications has been greatly extended for many years to a wide range of civilian and military problems. The types of articles most sought after by Naval Research Logistics fall into the following classes: (i) modeling and analysis of problems motivated by current real-world applications (ii) exploratory modeling and analysis of problems motivated by potential future real-world applications (iii) major methodological advances and (iv) expository pieces of exceptional clarity. Areas represented include (but are not limited to) probability statistics simulation optimization game theory scheduling reliability inventory decision analysis and combat models. Special issues devoted to a single topic are published occasionally. Proposals for special issues are welcomed by the Editorial Board.