Dr. Stephen M. Russell is Chief of the Battlefield Information Processing Branch at the US Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, MD. Previously, he was at the US Naval Research Laboratory. Dr. Russell has a long history of research in the areas of networking, information management, recommender systems, and network agents. Currently, his research is focused on Internet of Things and its applicability to the US Army and the US Military. He leads the ARL research program on Internet of Battlefield Things, which is focused on multiple challenges to incorporating IoT ideas and capabilities within the battlefield environment.