In a continuing effort to have information shared with our sponsors and among different parts of MITRE, I am pleased to launch this first issue of The Edge. As we all know, information technology advances at a rapid rate and we are obviously involved in nearly all aspects through our various project work programs as well as MITRE's research effort. I congratulate the I-Team and co-publishers Mark Maybury and Steve Huffman for this fine inaugural issue.

The Edge will report information technologies and applications that are strategic to the future of our country's national security. Technology topics include the Defense Information Infrastructure, information systems architectures, distributed interactive simulation, new information services, object technology, legacy system migration, and the year 2000 problem.

Victor A. DeMarines
President and Chief Executive Officer
The MITRE Corporation