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Potomac Insitute Names Dennis McBride, Ph.D., Member of the Board of Regents and Senior Adjunct Fellow

2 December, 1999

Arlington, Va. - Mike Swetnam, President and Chairman of the Board of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, named Dennis McBride, Ph.D., as a Member of the Board of Regents and Senior Adjunct Fellow. In this capacity, he will advise the Chairman and Board of Directors on the strategic direction of the Institute.

Professor McBride is Executive Director of the internationally recognized Institute for Simulation and Training at the University of Central Florida, and Professor, with appointments in the Departments of Engineering and Psychology. He retired in 1999 as a Captain and Naval Aerospace Experimental Psychologist, Medical Service Corps of the U.S. Navy. His assignments spanned five Navy laboratories, including the Naval Research Laboratory, with headquarters assignments at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Navy Medical Research Institute, and the Office of Naval Research. Professor McBride earned his Ph.D. in 1979 in mathematical and experimental psychology from the University of Georgia. His post-doctoral studies include the M.P.A., M.S.P.A. (with concentration in science, technology and public policy), M.S. from the University of Southern California, and summer residence at the Santa Fe Institute for the Study of Complex Adaptive Systems. He is currently registered at the London School of Economics for a second Ph.D. with concentration in the biopsychology of socio-economics. Professor McBride has published and presented over 100 technical papers in the areas of public policy, technology; and medical, evolutionary, and psychological science.

The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies is an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit public policy research institute that provides nonpartisan analysis of technology and technology policy to leaders in government, industry and academia. As the logo suggests, the Institute's work reflects the summation of technology's effects on business and government. With a reputation for fierce objectivity, the Institute has conducted studies on a wide range of technology and technology policy topics, including defense acquisition reform, dual use technology, space commercialization, cyber-terrorism and biological terrorism.