IP: Public Release of C4I Study by the National Academy of Sciences on March 22

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

From: "Herb Lin" <HLin () nas edu>
To: "Cstbmbrs" <Cstbmbrs () nas edu>, "CSTBALUM" <CSTBALUM () nas edu>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 11:20:37 -0500
Subject: Public Release of C4I Study by the National Academy of Sciences
        on March 22

     Folks --

     The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the
National Research Council is pleased to to invite you to a public briefing
at the National Academy of Sciences on a Congressionally-mandated report on
DOD plans and programs for C4I.  Authored by a CSTB committee equally
divided between military and commercial-sector experts, this report
identifies three major areas as the fundamental challenges to the full DOD
exploitation of C4I technology--information systems security,
interoperability, and various aspects of DOD process and culture.  The
report articulates principles by which to assess DOD efforts in these areas
over the long term as well as specific findings and recommendations that
are more immediately actionable.  Although DOD is the focus of this report,
the principles and issues are also relevant to interoperability,
architecture, and security challenges faced by government as a whole and
large, complex enterprises across the economy.

     The public briefing on this report will be conducted by the chairman
of the authoring committee, James C. McGroddy, former Senior Vice President
for Research at IBM Corporation.  Other members of the committee will be
available during the briefing as well; confirmed participants at this time
are Charles Herzfeld (vice chair), John Quilty, Richard Baseil, David
Maddox, and Richard Kemmerer.  A full listing of the committee (plus short
biographies) is appended to the end of this message.

     The public briefing will be held on Monday, March 22, from 12 noon
until 1:30 pm, in the Members Room of the National Academy of Sciences,
located at 2100 C Street, NW in Washington, DC.  This is the main building
of the NAS, which can be entered directly across from the State Department.
Prepublication copies of the report, entitled "Realizing the Potential of
C4I: Fundamental Challenges," will be available at the briefing.

     Please circulate this notice among interested parties, and accept our
apologies in advance for duplicate copies of it.   Also, if you are
interested in arranging a private briefing of this report for your office,
please let Jon Eisenberg know (number below).

     For more information about logistics for this briefing, please call
David Padgham at 202-334-2605.

     For more information about the substance of this briefing, please call
Jon Eisenberg at 202-334-2605.

     Media wishing to attend this briefing should contact Bob Ludwig at
202-334-2138.

Herb Lin
Senior Scientist
CSTB
202-334-3191



                         Members of the Committee



Jim McGroddy, Chair, was a Senior Vice President at IBM until his
retirement at the end of 1996.  He is Chairman of the Board of Integrated
Surgical Systems, a major player in the medical robotics field. He also
serves as  an  advisor to several government agencies, serves on a number
of National Research Council panels, and spends time as a visitor and
advisor at several universities.   At IBM, he was Senior Vice President,
Research,from 1989 to the end of 1995,  responsible for the work of about
2500 technical professionals in seven Research laboratories around the
world. Two of these laboratories, in Beijing, China, and in Austin, Texas,
were established under his leadership. He was also a member of IBM's
Worldwide Management Council and its Corporate Technical Committee.
McGroddy originally joined IBM in its Research Division in 1965 after
receiving a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Maryland. He earned his
BS in Physics from St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia in 1958. In his
first years at IBM Research  he focused  on research in solid state physics
and electronic devices, and as a result of achievements in these areas was
named a Fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
(IEEE ) and the American Physical Society.  In the 1970-71 academic year
he was a Visiting Professor of Physics at the Danish Technical University.
Returning to IBM, he served in a number of  management positions in
research, development and manufacturing before returning to head the
Research Division in 1989. He is a member of the National Academy of
Engineering, Chairman of the Board of Integrated Surgical Systems, Chairman
of the Board of Trustees at Phelps Memorial Hospital Center in Sleepy
Hollow NY , a Trustee of the HealthStar Hospital Network, a Trustee of the
Guglielmo Marconi Foundation, and a Trustee of St. Joseph's University.  He
serves on the Board of Directors of the Paxar Corporation


Charles Herzfeld, Vice-Chair, currently serves as a consultant to a variety
of organizations, such as DARPA, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and
others.  He holds an engineering degree from the Catholic University of
America (B.S., 1945) and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (1951).  He
worked as a physicist at the Ballistic Research Laboratory, Aberdeen,
Maryland from 1951 to 1953, and at the Naval Research Laboratory in
Washington from 1953 to 1955. After several years with the National Bureau
of Standards, he became Assistant Director of the Advanced Research Project
Agency of the Department of Defense. He was Director of the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency from 1965 to 1967, and was instrumental
in setting up the ARPAnet.   During his several years of affiliation with
ITT, Dr. Herzfeld served as technical director and director of research
groups and finally as Vice President, Director of Research (1979 to 1983)
and Director of Research and Technology (1983 to 1985). He served as
Director of Defense Research and Engineering at the Department of Defense
(1990 to 1991) and was consultant to the Office of Science and Technology
Policy, Executive Office of the President in 1991. Dr. Herzfeld was
recipient of the Flemming award in 1963 and awarded the Meritorious
Civilian Service medal by the Department of Defense in 1967. He has
contributed numerous articles to professional journals.


David Maddox retired from the U.S. Army in 1995 after serving as Commander
in Chief, U.S. Army in Europe.  Since that time, he has performed extensive
consulting services regarding concepts, systems requirements, analytic
techniques, and analyses, operations and systems effectiveness, and program
capture strategies to civilian corporations, government agencies, and
defense industries.  General Maddox has had extensive command experience.
He served four tours in Germany during which he commanded at every level
from platoon through Army group and theater.  Following command at platoon
and troop level in the 14th Armored Cavalry Regiment, he later commanded
1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Fulda, the 2nd Armored
Cavalry Regiment (he was the 61st Colonel of the Regiment) in Nuremberg,
the 18th Infantry Division (mechanized) in Bad Kreuznach, V Corps in
Frankfurt, and NATO
?s Central Army Group and U.S. Army, Europe and 7th Army
in Deidelberg.  In addition, he has significant background in operations
research.


Paul David Miller is Chairman and  CEO of Alliant Technology Systems.
Admiral Miller had extensive command experience.  He retired in November
1994 as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet and Supreme Allied
Commander (Atlantic) for NATO.  As CINCLANT, he oversaw the execution of
Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti.  In his active service, he was a
strong advocate for joint and combined operations.  He developed a
reputation as an innovator in the use of new technologies to support
military operations.  Among other notable accomplishments, he led the
reorganization of U.S. Atlantic Command, the first command that integrated
all combatant forces in the continental United States.


Robert Reed is a Director of the Lear Astronics Corporation, a Santa
Monica, CA-based company that produces flight control computers, associated
software and develops unique applications of radar and other sensor
technology.  Previously, he was the Executive Director of the National
Training Systems Association, a Washington, DC-based trade association of
companies producing computer-based training, systems, programs and
products.  General Reed served with the U.S. Air Force during the period
1953 through July 1988.  His last military assignment was to SHAPE (NATO),
Mons, Belgium, where he served as Chief of Staff.  He held the rating of
Command Pilot with more than 6700 flying hours to include 339 hours of
combat flying.  He obtained a B.A. in political science from Syracuse
University and a graduate degree in public administration from George
Washington University.


John Quilty is Senior Vice President and General Manager, Washington C3
Center of the MITRE Corporation?s C3I FFRDC (Federally Funded Research and
Development Center).  The Washington C3 Center supports the Army, Navy,
Defense Information Systems Agency, Office of the Secretary of Defense,
Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other members of the national
security community.  Mr. Quilty?s current activities are focused also on
support of DOD initiatives and activities designed to achieve improved C4I
support to joint operations.  Previously, he assisted the general manager
as vice president, Washington C3I Division, from 1986 to 1990.  He is a
member of the Executive Committee of the Armed Forces Communications and
Electronics Association (AFCEA) Board of Directors and serves on the board
of the annual NATO workshop addressed to alliance issues following the end
of the cold war.  He also serves as the Chair of the Military
Communications Conference Board (IEEE/Armed Forces Communications and
Electronics Association-sponsored).  Mr. Quilty received a master of
science degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1962,
and a bachelor of science degree in the same discipline from Princeton
University in 1961.


H. Gregory Tornatore is the Program Area Manager for Defense Communications
Programs at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
(JHU/APL).  His areas of expertise include military Command, Control and
Communications (C3), wide-area surveillance, over-the-horizon sensors and
targeting, communications networks and architectures, high-frequency radar,
and ionospheric propagation.  His current responsibilities include overall
management of a diverse set of programs sponsored by Army, Navy, Air Force
and selected DOD agencies that address operational and technical issues
associated with National Command Authority connectivity to U.S. strategic
forces; DOD satellite communications architecture development, control and
network management; tactical C3 systems vulnerability assessment; anti-jam
and low probability-of-intercept tactical radio systems; advanced
phased-array antenna systems; intelligence and information operations.  Mr.
Tornatore also chairs the Laboratory?s Internal Research and Development
Command and Control Thrust Area, responsible for the application of new
technology to DOD C3 problems.  Mr. Tornatore has been employed by JHU/APL
since 1977, and has been a member of the Principal Professional Staff since
1980.  Prior to joining JHU/APL, Mr. Tornatore was employed at the
Electro-Physics Laboratory, ITT Avionics Division.  Mr. Tornatore received
a Master of Science degree in Physics from the Pennsylvania State
University in 1964, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from St.
Francis College in 1961.


Carl G. O'Berry retired from the U.S. Air Force as a Lieutenant General in
August 1995.  Until December 1998 he was Vice President and Director of
Planning and Information Technology for the Space and Systems Technology
Group at Motorola, where he was responsible for Group-wide strategic and
long-range planning and executive management of Group information
technology solutions and services.  In addition, he was responsible for
information technology architectures and roadmaps, new information
technology business development, and leadership of information technology
innovation and process re-engineering.  He was previously Deputy Chief of
Staff for Command, Control, Communications & Computers, Headquarters,
United States Air Force, a position from which he directed Air Force-wide
information systems planning and policy development.  Earlier in his Air
Force career, he served as Commander of the Air Force Rome Air Development
Center and Joint Program Manager, World-Wide Military Command and Control
System Information System. He also led the development and field testing of
an airborne radar sensing/tracking system that was the forerunner of the
Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System.  He has a Master of
Science degree in Systems Management from the Air Force Institute of
Technology and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from
New Mexico State University.


Norman Abramson is Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of ALOHA
Networks, a San Francisco company providing satellite access to the
Internet using small earth stations.  He joined the Stanford faculty in
1958 as Assistant and then Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering.
In 1965 he was appointed Professor of Electrical Engineering at the
University of Hawaii.  He also served as Professor and Chairman of the
Computer Science Department at the University of Hawaii.  In 1967 he
assumed the position of director of the ALOHA System, a university research
project concerned with new forms of data network architecture.  From
1972-85 he served as a United Nations adviser to developing countries on
the use of satellite technology for national development.   In 1995 he left
the University of Hawaii to found ALOHA Networks, Inc. in order to develop
advanced forms of ALOHA channels in the commercial sector.  In addition to
his fundamental research in multiple access communications, Abramson
directed the creation of the ALOHANET, a wireless packet network operating
throughout Hawaii.


Richard J. Baseil is Vice President in Bellcore's Professional Services
organization.  Mr. Baseil has managed product testing and quality analyses
of telecommunications switching, signaling, transport, and customer-premise
systems, with emphasis on hardware and software interoperability.  He also
advises telecommunications service providers on improvements to their
procurement processes for network systems.  Baseil played a major role in
defining the industry need for, and subsequently establishing, a
multi-company Internetwork Interoperability Test Planning effort in the
United States, and he managed the Bellcore staff and the interconnection
facility used by industry participants to conduct nationwide signaling and
interoperability testing.  Mr. Baseil has 24 years of telecommunications
experience, having had responsibility for switching systems engineering,
signaling network engineering, operations systems engineering, operating
services system requirements, network database requirements, ISDN data
services engineering, billing services, and some early descriptive work on
next-generation switching systems.  Mr. Baseil holds Bachelors and Masters
degrees in Electrical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of
Technology.


Butler Lampson is an engineer with the Microsoft Corporation.  He was
previously a corporate consulting engineer for Systems Research Center,
Digital Equipment Corporation.  Dr. Lampson has several publications and
patents to his credit.  He is a member of the Association for Computing
Machinery, International Federation for Information Processing Working
Group 2.3 on Programming Methodology, and the National Academy of
Engineering.  He received his Ph.D. (1967) in electrical engineering and
computer science from the University of California and his AB magna cum
laude (1964) with highest honors in physics from Harvard University.


Edward Balkovich is a Director at Bell Atlantic.  He is responsible for IP
and data network system engineering in Bell Atlantic's Network Architecture
organization. He also contributes to the technology adoption strategy, and
network evolution plan. Most recently, he led the introduction of voice
over IP services in Bell Atlantic's core network. Dr. Balkovich's areas of
expertise include computer-based systems and networks. Before coming to
Bell Atlantic, Dr. Balkovich was Senior Consulting Engineer with Digital
Equipment Corporation.  At Digital, he was responsible for a variety of
research, architecture and integration activities, and was a technical
partner to major corporate accounts.  While at Digital he co-led Project
Athena at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, contributed to the
architecture of the VAXcluster product line and the demonstration of
encryption, tunneling and firewalls as the basis for secure use of the
Internet.  Dr. Balkovich has also held a number of academic appointments
including Adjunct Associate Professor at Brandeis University, Visiting
Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Assistant
Professor at the University of Connecticut.  Dr. Balkovich received his
B.A. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, and his
M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from the
University of California, Santa Barbara.  He is a member of IEEE and the
Association for Computing Machinery.


Thomas A. Berson is founder and president of Anagram Laboratories, a
company that specializes in computer security and cryptography.  Dr. Berson
has deep knowledge of cryptosystem architecture, cryptographic algorithms
and protocols, network security issues, tiger team analyses, and strategies
for information conflict.  His consulting practice is focussed on
market-leading multinationals and U.S. Government agencies. He earned a
Ph.D. in computer science from the University of London and a B.S. in
physics from the State University of New York.  He has been visiting fellow
in mathematics at the University of Cambridge and is a member of the
Stanford University Cryptography Seminar. He is an editor of the Journal of
Cryptology. He is past-president of the International Association for
Cryptologic Research and is the incoming chair of the IEEE Technical
Committee on Security and Privacy. Toward the end of this study, Dr. Berson
was appointed principal scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.


Richard Kemmerer is professor and past chair in the computer science
department at the University of California at Santa Barbara.  He is a
nationally known consultant in computer security and formal verification.
He has written widely on the subject of computer security, formal
specification and verification, software testing, programming languages,
and software complexity measures.  Dr. Kemmerer received a Ph.D. (1979) in
computer science from the University of California at Los Angeles.  He is a
Fellow of the IEEE Computer Society and of the Association for Computing
Machinery and past chair of the IEEE technical committee on security and
privacy.  He also served on the National Bureau of Standard's Computer and
Telecommunications Security Council and on the National Research Council's
study committees that produced Computers at Risk and For the Record.


Jordan Baruch received a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering (1948) and
Sc.D. in electrical instrumentation (1950) from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology and served as an assistant professor and lecturer in
electrical engineering until 1970.  Dr. Baruch has been President of Jordan
Baruch Associates in Washington, D.C. since 1981.  He is a consultant to
industry and government on the planning, management, and integration of
strategy and technology.  Previous experience includes:  General Manager,
Medinet Department, General Electric Co. (66-68); President, Educom
(68-70); Independent Consultant (70-71); Lecturer in Business
Administration, Harvard Univ. (71-74); Professor, Tuck School of Business
and Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College (74-77); and Assistant
Secretary for Science and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce (77-81).
Dr. Baruch is a member of the National Academy of Engingeering, IEEE, and
the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  His research
interests include: computers in communication, acoustics, and technology
management.