Dan Winkowski is a Principal Information Systems Engineer with the MITRE Corporation. Currently, Dan coordinates an international team in the development of specifications and solutions for modernizing military messaging and related workflow descriptions used for command and control. His current interests involve information interoperability solutions, XML messaging, and business process orchestration. Prior to joining MITRE Dan spent nine years working in The Hague, The Netherlands. During this period he supported various NATO commands in re-engineering business practices and adopting Internet technologies, led development and systems integration projects related to web portals and knowledge management, defined information architectures, developed requirements for system acquisition programs, and researched application of agent based information discovery. Dan received both B.A. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo.