DAVID S. ALBERTS is both Deputy Director of the Institute for National Strategic Studies and the Director of Advanced Concepts, Technologies, and Information Strategies (ACTIS) at the National Defense University, which includes responsibility for the School of Information Warfare and Strategy and the Center for Advanced Concepts and Technology. He also serves as the executive agent for the Department of Defense's Command and Control Research Program (C2RP).[Also see About the Authors.]

Dr. Alberts has extensive experience developing and introducing technology into private and public sector organizations. This extensive applied experience is augmented by a distinguished academic career in computer science and operations research and government service in senior policy and management positions.

DANIEL S. PAPP is Executive Assistant to the President of the Georgia Institute of Technology and Professor of International Affairs in Georgia Tech's Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Dartmouth College, Papp received his Ph.D. from the University of Miami. His fields of specialty include international security policy, U.S. and Russian foreign and defense policies, and international system change. Papp has been Visiting Professor at the Western Australia Institute of Technology; Research Professor at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College; Senior Research Professor at the Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education of the U.S. Air War College; and Visiting Professor at Fudan University in Shanghai.

Papp is the author of Contemporary International Relations (5th Edition, 1997); Soviet Policies toward the Developing World: The Dilemmas of Power and Presence (1986); Soviet Perceptions of the Developing World in the 1980s: The Ideological Basis (1985); and Vietnam: The View from Moscow, Peking, Washington (1981). He also edited the autobiography of former U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, As I Saw It (1990); and co-edited International Space Policy (1987); The Political Economy of International Technology Transfer (1986); and Communist Nations' Military Assistance (1983). His current research is on the impact of information and communication technologies on international affairs.[Also see About the Authors.]

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