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Business Executives for National Security (BENS)

Business Executives for National Security (BENS), a nationwide, non-partisan organization, is the primary channel through which senior business executives can help enhance the nation's security. BENS members use their business experience to drive our agenda, deliver our message to decision makers and make certain that the changes we propose are put into practice. BENS has only one special interest: to help make America safe and secure.

Highlights

Secretary Gates:
New "Sense of Urgency" Needed

Thanking BENS for new ideas and solutions that have “saved the taxpayers billions of dollars and made our military a more effective fighting force,” Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in his address – before a black-tie audience of hundreds of business, defense, and political leaders – that it is necessary to “upend assumptions and practices that have accumulated in a largely peacetime military establishment.” For full text of speech click here



A New Way to Donate” –At the request of Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management officials, the Safeguard Iowa Partnership helped the state implement the new FEMA-endorsed Aidmatrix solution that Governor Chet Culver calls “a new way to donate” – an online link that quickly channels donations to relief organizations working on the ground.  Interested in contributing products to help Iowa recover?  For the BENS National portal on Aidmatrix, click here.


To view previous highlights, please click HERE.