Ground Rules: More Information

This Communications Satellite Reform Online Information Web site is one of the first of its kind to be used as an aid in a major lobbying campaign between contending interests on a matter of public policy.

This Web site is the creation of Richard K. Cook, a registered lobbyist, and Robert Arena, a political Web site consultant based in Alexandria, Virginia. Both Mr. Cook and Mr. Arena are indebted to the SATCOM Coalition for their forward-looking thinking and support for this project.

Richard K. Cook is a veteran Washington lobbyist and businessman. After graduating from the George Washington University in 1959, he first worked for the American Trucking Associations, spent eight years on Capitol Hill (where in 1966 he enabled the House Banking Committee to be the first committee in the Congress to computerize its legislative calendar on the Library of Congress' IBM 360), four years at the White House, and twenty-three years with the former Lockheed Corporation as head of its Washington office. He was first introduced to and dazzled by the potential of the Internet when he saw it in its infant form nearly twenty years ago at Stanford University. In 1979, he was first exposed to DARPA's (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency) involvement with the Internet, then an experiment. In the late 1990's, he represented U.S. companies in South Africa, including Lockheed Martin Ocean Radar and Sensor Systems, SAIC's distance learning center, and a Los Angeles-based satellite and cable telephone company, Pacific Digitel.

Robert K. Arena, Jr., Principal in Presage Internet Campaigns http://www.presageinc.com is a pioneer in the political applications of the Internet. As director of Internet Strategy for Dole for President and Dole/Kemp '96, Mr. Arena was responsible for the design and production of the campaign Web site, widely acclaimed by trade magazines and the mainstream press as the cutting-edge political Web site of the 1996 cycle. It was the foundation for the largest political Internet mailing list ever built and featured unique implementations of technology previously unheard of on a non-commercial site. In 1997, he was responsible for Internet strategy for Governor Christie Whitman's re-election campaign where he took cutting edge political use of the Internet to the state-wide level í developing one of the first bilingual campaign sites. In 1998, he was responsible for Governor Pataki's 1998 reelection Internet strategy where he applied a unique use of user customization in a statewide race. A native of Massachusetts, Mr. Arena attended The Johns Hopkins University until 1995 when he joined the Dole campaign.