MITRE Engineer Honored at Network-Centric Warfare Awards

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McLean, Virginia, March 3, 2006 — The MITRE Corporation congratulates Fred Stein, a senior principal engineer for network-centric warfare in MITRE's Army Systems and Technology department, on being one of two recipients of the first Arthur K. Cebrowski Award. The award will be presented annually by the Institute for Defense and Government Advancement (IDGA). IDGA is a non-partisan information-based organization that promotes innovative ideas in public service and defense.

Given to recognize individual excellence in the development of network-centric warfare, the award is named in honor of the late Arthur K. Cebrowski, retired Vice Admiral of the U.S. Navy, who is widely considered the originator of the network-centric warfare concept. "Network-centric warfare" (NCW) describes the emerging tactics, techniques, and procedures that link sensors, decision makers, and shooters within the battlespace to create information superiority and increase combat power.

"Fred Stein has developed the foundational intellectual thought around network centric operations," says Al Grasso, MITRE executive vice president and director of the Department of Defense Command Control Communications and Intelligence Federally Funded Research and Development Center. "Fred continues to advance this thinking through substantial contributions in capturing lessons learned from current operations. He has become a nationally recognized expert on the topic, and we are proud to have him carry on Admiral Cebrowski's transformational legacy."

The other Arthur K. Cebrowski Award recipient is John Garstka, assistant director for concepts and operations, Office of Force Transformation. Both Stein and Garstka worked for Vice Admiral Cebrowski in the late 1990s and helped him develop the NCW concept. They also authored the book Network-Centric Warfare: Developing and Leveraging Information Superiority along with David Alberts. Stein and Garstka received award plaques at the January 17th NCW Awards ceremony held in Washington, D.C., as part of the annual IDGA Network-Centric Warfare Conference.

"I knew that this award was being inaugurated, and I thought that it should go to John, so I was surprised to be on the platform with him," says Stein. "This award is important to me because it's in memory of Arthur Cebrowski. It also means a lot because it validates years of hard work done with many people to make the theory more usable and practical to the nations of the world."

At MITRE since 1998, Stein, a retired Army colonel, is the director of MITRE's Fort Hood, Texas, site. A sought-after speaker and teacher on NCW, Stein is working to help the United States and its allies leverage information technology to gain strategic advantage in maintaining peace. Stein holds a bachelor of science degree in Industrial Management from Georgia Institute of Technology and a master of science degree in Operations Research from Boston University. He serves as a member of the Swedish National Advisory Board on Network Based Defense, an advisor to the Department of Defense Office of Force Transformation, and an assistant professor of information warfare/network-centric warfare at the Army War College.

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