Table of Contents: Program Manager Interviews Gary Smith, SOCOM Acquisition Executive; Naval Postgraduate School; SECDEF Speaks at NDU Joint Operations Symposium-QDR Conference OASD Public Affairs News Release; 1997 Acquisition Research Symposium - Report And Highlights; DSMC Graduate Tapped to Lead Army's Acquisition Corps; Program Stability - The Kaminski Initiative. Also in this issue --Breaking Up is Hard to Do; From Our readers; DSMC, San Diego Conduct Technology-Based Education and Training Trial Run; Industry Managers Participate in Field Trip; DSMC Conducts Successful Ninth International Acquisition/Procurement Seminar with German Federal Academy; Western region Picks Up Where Central region Leaves Off; Front End Work Pays Off for Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support (DMLSS) Program; and From the Commandant.

Table of contents include: (1) Longuemare Endorses Two Important Modeling and Simulation Documents; (2) Simulation Based Acquisition; (3) Modeling and Simulation Use in the Army Acquisition Process; (4) Air Force Space Command Establishes First Space Battlelab; (5) Modeling and Simulation - A New Role for the Operational Tester; (6) SPY-1D(V) Models and Simulations Support Operational Testing in a Remote New Jersey Cornfield; (7) Put a Virtual Prototype on Your Desktop; (8) The Theater Missile Defense System Exerciser; (9) A New Vision, Further Leveraging Emerge From Orlando's Simulation Superstructure; (10) National Simulation Superstructure; (11) Integrated Ship Defense Modeling and Simulation Pilot Program; (12) Integrated Acquisition-Logistics Synthetic Environments for Total Value Assessment; (13) Why is Modeling and Simulation So Hard to Do? and (14) Air Force Modeling and Simulation Trends.

Program Manager is intended to be a vehicle for the transmission of information on policies, trends, events and current thinkin affecting program management and defense systems acquisition.

These papers discuss major areas of intelligent control. Topics include: intelligent control in space structures; hybrid control system synthesis, verification and stability; intelligent machines; and neural networks for robotics."