ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Admiral William A. Owens is the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. From July 1992 to December 1993, he directed the post-Cold War restructuring of the U.S. Navy, serving as the first Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Resources, Warfare Requirements and Assessments (N8). He holds degrees from the U.S. Naval Academy and Oxford University.

Dr. Stuart E. Johnson is currently the Director of Research of the Institute for National Strategic Studies of the National Defense University. He has part-time teaching appointments at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and at the George Washington University Elliot School of International Affairs.

Dr. Martin C. Libicki is a senior fellow of the Advanced Command Technologies program, INSS. He is a specialist in the application of information technologies to national security issues. He has written extensively on information warfare, information technology standards, and the revolution in military affairs.

Paul Bracken is Professor of Political Science and Professor of International Business, Yale University. He is the author of The Command and Control of Nuclear Forces: Reforging European Security (with Kurt Gottfried), The Diffusion of Advanced Weaponry, and many journal articles on European defense, Asian security, and defense planning.

Dr. David Alberts is currently the Director of Advanced Concepts, Technologies, and Information Strategies Directorate (ACTIS) at INSS, National Defense University. ACTIS houses both the Center for Advanced Concepts and Technology (ACT) and the School of Information Warfare and Strategy (IWS). He has over 25 years of experience with all phases of the design, development, and evaluation of innovative state-of-the-art systems.

Jeffrey R. Cooper is a Senior Researcher at Science Applications International Corporation, where he focuses on the strategic, policy, and operational aspects of the Revolution in Military Affairs and Information Warfare. He is a frequent lecturer at the National Defense University on a variety of defense-related topics.

Dr. Michael G. Sovereign has been teaching Command-and-Control at the Naval Postgraduate School since 1970 and he currently chairs its institute of Joint Warfare. He is the co-author of Quantitative Models for Production Management and a 1982 recipient of the Secretary of Defense's Meritorious Civilian Service Medal.

James Hazlett, a retired naval officer, is a Senior Analyst at SAIC Inc. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and has published in the Naval Institute Proceedings and in the Joint Force Quarterly.