Dr. Albert Jones manages the Manufacturing Enterprise Integration program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This program focuses on the integration of business processes and operations management tools across a supply chain. Dr. Jones spent several years as Deputy Director of the Automated Manufacturing Research Facility at NIST, where his research included the development of system architectures for shop floor control, cell control, and distributed scheduling. Dr. Jones, together with colleagues from NIST and the University of Illinois, were the first to introduce the notion of a generic controller that could be used at any level within a hierarchical control system for manufacturing. Dr. Jones has published numerous articles on control systems, scheduling, and simulation. Dr. Jones is currently on the Executive Boards for the Winter Simulation Conference and the Engineering School at Loyola of Baltimore. He has Chaired or Co-chaired several international conferences, and has served on several proposal evaluation panels for NSF, NIST, and DARPA.