David S. Alberts
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David Stephen Alberts (1942) is an American Director of Research for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (OASD) for Networks and Information Integration (NII).
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[edit] Biography
David S. Alberts undergraduate work was at City College of New York where he received a BA in Statistics in 1964. He received a Masters (1966) and a Doctorate in Operations Research (1968) from the University of Pennsylvania.
Alberts' academic career has included serving as first Director of the Computer Science Program at NYU and has held professional rank posts at NYU Graduate School of Business, CUNY, and most recently as a Research Professor at George Mason University.
Prior to his current position he was the Director, Advanced Concepts, Technologies, and Information Strategies (ACTIS), Deputy Director of the Institute for National Strategic Studies, and the executive agent for DoD's Command and Control Research Program. This included responsibility for the Center for Advanced Concepts and Technology (ACT) and the School of Information Warfare and Strategy (SIWS) at the National Defense University.
He has chaired numerous international and national conferences and symposia and has many publications, some of which are included in tutorials given by the IEEE and other professional societies. He has served as an officer in a number of professional societies and has actively contributed to AIAA, MORS, TIMS, AFCEA, and ORSA. At the local level, Alberts has served as Assistant to the Commissioner, NYPD.
Recent honors have included the Secretary of Defense's Outstanding Public Service Award, Aviation Week and Space Technology's Government/Military Laurel, and the inaugural NCW Award for Best Contribution to the Theory of NCW presented by the Institute for Defense and Government Advancement (IDGA).
[edit] Work
Alberts has more than 25 years of experience developing and introducing leading edge 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.
He also led efforts that produced the NATO Code of Best Practice for C2 Assessment and the Code of Best Practice for Experimentation.
His recent groundbreaking article Agility, Focus and Convergence: The Future of Command and Control challenges not only long-held command and control beliefs but the very language of command and control itself.
[edit] Publications
Alberts is credited with providing the intellectual foundation for an Information Age transformation of military institutions. His seminal works include:
- 1995. Command Arrangements for Peace Operations. With Richard E. Hayes. Washington, DC : National Defense University Press Publications.
- 2001. Understanding Information Age Warfare. Washington, DC : CCRP Publication Series.
- 2003. Power to the Edge. With Richard E. Hayes ; with a foreword by John Stenbit. Washington, DC : CCRP Publication Series.
- 2003. Information Age Transformation. Washington, D.C. : CCRP Publication Series.
- 2005. Campaigns of Experimentation : pathways to innovation and transformation. With Richard E. Hayes. Washington, D.C. : CCRP Publication Series.
- 2006. Understanding Command and Control. With Richard E. Hayes. Washington, D.C. : CCRP Publications, c2006.
And further:
- Defensive Information Warfare.
- Network Centric Warfare,
- Unintended Consequences of Information Age Technologies,
