Capt Dennis "Mike" Egan is a graduate of the USCG Academy 1972, completed the Adm.Rickover program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 1977 with a Masters of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering and the Professional Degree of Ocean Engineer. He graduated from the Naval War College (CNCS) and Salve Regina College in 1987 with Masters of Arts degrees in Strategic Analysis of National Security and International Relations respectively. In 1991 he graduated from the Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a Sloan Fellow with the Masters of Science degree in Management with emphasis on Negotiation. He served on six different Arctic and Antarctic deployments and was the Engineer Officer of the icebreakers Northwind and Polar Star. During a follow-on assignment as the Naval Engineer of the Second Coast Guard District in St. Louis, MO he was

recognized as the Coast Guard's Federal Engineer of the Year and received the Federal Energy Award for innovative design and construction of new, integrated Coast Guard barges and new modular configuration towboats that were the first river tenders to carry a mixed gender crew. Following graduation from the Naval War College, he served as the Coast Guard's Liaison to the Republic of the Philippines during the first two years of the Aquino Administration (1987-1989) and was posted at the Joint US Military Assistance Group as the J-2 and Support Division Officer. He served as Vessel Support Branch Chief at MLCLANT (1989-1990) and was appointed as a Sloan Fellow (MIT). Following his graduation from the Sloan Fellows' Program (1991) he served as a member of the Commandant's Strategic Planning

Staff and was detailed to the staff of Vice President Al Gore as a Special Assistant to the Director of the National Performance Review (NPR) (1992-1994). For his key support of the Vice President's initiatives in adapting Internet technology for community services and distributed decision-making, he received the Legion of Merit. He was consequently assigned as Commander, Group Honolulu and Base Commanding Officer of CG facilities at Sand Island, Honolulu. During his tour (1994-1996), his units distinguished themselves in several major AMIO cases, inter-island counter-narcotics cooperative actions with state and local authorities, and over 500 search and rescue cases. He was transferred to the Seventeenth Coast Guard District as the Chief of the Maritime Plans and Policy Division where he also coordinated regional Russian and Canadian programs. In addition, he served as the Alaska Regional Response Team Co-Chairman, Exercise Director of Exercise Northern Edge (1997-1999), the First Spill of International

Significance Exercise in Sakhalin, Russia (1998) and Chairman of the D17 Intelligence Coordination Council. He transferred to Commandant (G-OPF) in August 1999. Captain Egan is a registered Professional Engineer and a Lifetime member of the US Naval Institute.

Rich Holm holds a B.S .in electrical engineering and M.S. in nuclear engineering from the University of Illinois. He served in the United States Navy as a nuclear trained Machinist Mate/Engineering Laboratory Technician for eight and a half years. During that period he was an Engineering Watch Supervisor aboard a nuclear submarine and an instructor in chemistry, radiological controls, mechanical and hydraulic systems at a nuclear prototype unit. He has worked as a consultant to Northern States Power Company and the International Atomic Energy Agency developing training programs in health physics and nuclear engineering.

Mr. Holm is currently the reactor administrator for the University of Illinois Nuclear Reactor Laboratory. He is responsible for all aspects of the operation and safety of the University of Illinois Advanced TRIGA and LOPRA nuclear reactors including the following: compliance with Technical Specifications and Federal regulations, license amendments, safety evaluations, equipment/system design changes and experiment review and authorization. He also performs special projects for the College of Engineering including coordinating activities for the University of Illinois Program for Security Technology.

Dave Hughes is a partner of Old Colorado City Communications, a Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA Internet ISP, which does research and consulting in advanced forms of wireless data communications. His company has been located since 1984 in the Old Colorado City District of westside Colorado Springs.

Hughes is a West Point graduate, Class of 1950, who served in the Korean and Vietnam wars, was a researcher and staff officer in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in the 1960s. He retired as Colonel, US Army, in 1973. He has been researching, developing, and operating, online dial up, or wirelessly connected systems since 1979. Particularly in rural areas such as the Big Sky Telegraph system in Montana in the late 1980's.

In 1998 Wired Magazine named Hughes one of the leading "Wired 25" pioneers in the world.

He consulted for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment in 1990 and more recently advised the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) use of wireless for education under the 1996 Telecommunications Act. He is a lecturer worldwide. He published most recently in April 1998 Scientific American and the MIT Press 'First Hundred Feet' compendium in May 1999.

In 1993 Hughes was awarded the Telecommunications Pioneer Award in by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) of Washington, DC for his effective work in grass roots connectivity.

He informally assisted the Puerto Rican Office of Management and Budget when it started its Wireless Project in 1997.

He has been an invited speaker at the Puerto Rican Governor's Conferences on Information Technologies in 1998 and 1999.

For the past 4 years he has been the Principal Investigator for 4 National Science Foundation projects doing Field Tests of advanced wireless technologies for education particularly no-license spread spectrum devices.

He designed a novel Field Science by Wireless Project for educators in Lewistown Montana, in 1997-98, and directed the implementation of Wireless connectivity for educational and science institutions in Ulaanbataar, Mongolia in 1995-96.

He has been sought out after as a lecturer and conference panelist worldwide for the past 20 years.

He is currently Principal Investigator for a 3 year NSF project that will model Field Science by solar powered wireless connections from remote sensors in frigid climates and tropical rainforests to the Internet, in support of biological sciences and environmental monitoring.

Tim Kratz is a Senior Scientist at the Center for Limnology at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Director of the Center’s Trout Lake Station in northern Wisconsin. He is an ecosystem ecologist with interests in the long-term landscape ecology of lakes, land-water interactions, and lake biogeochemistry. He is a Co-Principal Investigator of the North Temperate Lakes Long-Term Ecological Research project. Over the past several years he has been involved with developing and deploying instrumented buoys to measure various physical, chemical, and biological dynamics of lakes.

William Lane is currently the Chief Technologist of Wireless Telecommunications Bureau for the Federal Communications Commission.

Since January 1999, Mr. Lane was the Chief Scientist with Femme Comp Incorporated and served on the staff of the Director for Information Systems for Command, Control, Communications and Computers (DISC4) at Headquarters, Department of the Army, where he was responsible for the Joint Tactical Radio System Program.

Previously, he completed a career as a US army Signal Corps Officer culminating with the rank of Colonel and assignment as the Deputy Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the United States Military Academy. His assignments and responsibilities included a broad range of tactical communications ranging from special operations to division and corps level communications as well as strategic level communications with the former Defense Communications Agency. In addition, he served as an Instructor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the United States Military Academy and as the Special Projects Officer for the Chief of the Army Section of the Joint United States Military Mission for Aid to Turkey.

He received his Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, his MBA degree from Long Island University, and his BS degree from the United States Military Academy. He is a senior member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) AND IS A registered Professional Engineer in the state of Virginia.

George Markowsky is currently Professor and Chair of the Computer Science Department at the University of Maine. He is also the Chair of the Mathematics & Statistics Department. George Markowsky has published 69 papers on various aspects of Computer Science and Mathematics. He has written an additional 19 technical reports and 6 books on various aspects of computing. He also holds a patent on mechanisms that implement Universal Hashing. His interests range from pure mathematics to the application of mathematics and computer science to biological problems.

He has also built voice controlled and enhanced keyboard terminals for use by paralyzed individuals. George Markowsky received a grant from NSF to found the Agent Institute at the University of Maine to focus research on agent-based computing. He is also a co-PI on the University of Maine’s Internet 2 grant. George Markowsky served as the President of the Maine Software Developers Association (MeSDA) since its inception in spring 1993 until May 1998. The Association has grown from 18 members to over 200 and now employs a full-time Executive Director. MeSDA works closely with companies and state agencies to promote the development of the software industry in Maine.

George Markowsky founded a software company, Trefoil Corporation in February 1994. Trefoil Corporation developed the O*NET software for the U. S. Department of Labor that will replace the Dictionary of Occupational Titles. The O*NET software was released nationally in 1998. In addition, Trefoil has handled tasks ranging from software reengineering and testing, to the marketing of a product called PC-Pedal™. Trefoil is currently working on a Phase II SBIR for the National Institutes of Health.

David J. Nagel graduated (magna cum laude) from the University of Notre Dame (B.S. in Engineering Science 1960), and performed graduate work at the University of Maryland (M.S. in Physics 1969, and Ph.D. in Engineering Materials 1977). During active duty with the Navy, he was Navigator aboard the USS ARNEB on OPERATION DEEPFREEZE (1960-2), and then served as a Technical Liaison Officer at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) (1962-4). After joining the civilian staff of the NRL in 1964, he held positions of increasing responsibility as a Research Physicist, Section Head, Branch Head and, finally, Superintendent of the Condensed Matter and Radiation Sciences Division. In the last position, he was a member of the Senior Executive Service, and managed the experimental and theoretical research and development efforts of 150 government and contractor personnel. At the NRL, Dr. Nagel’s research

interests centered on radiation physics, especially x-ray spectroscopy, and on materials sciences, with applications to materials analysis, plasma diagnostics, integrated circuit production, environmental studies, "cold fusion", and MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS).

He has written or co-authored over 150 technical articles, reports, book chapters and encyclopedia articles. He is lead-author of a patent on x-ray lithography, which formed the basis of a 100-person startup company in Rochester NY.

After serving as Commanding Officer of three Reserve units and the national Technology Mobilization Program, Dr. Nagel retired as a Captain in the United States Naval Reserve in 1990. He left Government Service, and became a Research Professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science of The George Washington University, in 1998. He is now working on the development and applications of MEMS and microsystems for the military and other sectors, with special attention to radio frequency and acoustic systems.

Robert Nowak manages advanced energy technologies projects aimed at reducing the logistics, weight, and volume burden of military power sources while lowering acoustic and thermal signatures. Advanced battery and capacitor technology, mobile electric power, portable power, and energy harvesting projects have been and are supported by this program. Rechargeable lithium batteries and capacitor efforts have been transitioned to the Army and Air Force for further development for specific mission needs. The Mobile Electric Power Program succeeded in producing fuel processing technology that can process high sulfur content diesel and jet fuels for use in large (tens of kilowatts) fuel cell systems. This program has been transitioned to the Navy, who, in cooperation with the Coast Guard and other agencies, is developing fuel cell systems for shipboard use. Projects of current emphasis are portable power and energy harvesting. The portable power effort seeks to develop high-performance, logistically fueled power sources in the range of hundreds of watts. For lower power ranges, other fuels, such as methanol and novel hydrogen sources, are being integrated with small fuel cells; however, logistics fueled systems are preferred by the military and are the long-term goal of these programs. The Energy Harvesting Program seeks new concepts to reduce or eliminate the dependence on batteries in small-unattended sensors or soldier systems by accumulating energy from environmental sources for immediate or deferred use. Prior to his tenure with DSO, Dr. Nowak was a program manager at the Office of Naval Research and managed the Navy's basic research program in electrochemistry as well as undersea propulsion programs. He was a staff scientist

and section head at the Naval Research Laboratory. He received postdoctoral training at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Cincinnati, and bachelor's and master's degrees from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.

Leslie D. Owens is currently employed as the Technical Director, Wireless Security for the Global Professional Services group of Nortel Networks. In this role, he is responsible leading the development of global wireless security solutions sets and for security support to ensure solution sets offer security capabilities within the Wireless Internet segment.

Larry Smarr was the founding director of NCSA and the National Computational Science Alliance, while a professor of astronomy and physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

In August 2000, he moved to the University of California San Diego, where he is a professor of computer science and engineering. In December 2000, he became the founding director of UC's California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, which has a focus on the software, wireless, and photonic technologies necessary for extending the capabilities of the Internet into a global grid. He is a member of both the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee and the Advisory Committee to the Director of NIH. He is also a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Jim Wilson of Georgetown University is a pediatrician with extensive experience with infectious diseases and remote sensing (e.g., correlation of climatic and vegetation changes with outbreaks of disease such as Ebola, Rift Valley Fever and VEE).