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Business Leaders in Action, Results for America – BENS Leadership Report 2009 - A report summarizing our major activities: recent, ongoing and planned initiatives, their impact on our national security, the places we’ve visited, the leaders we’ve met and our never-ending effort to grow our membership and remain a good steward of our resources.
Cyber Security Inquiry 2008 – After Action Report from Strategic Simulation - On December 17-18, 2008, BENS, in cooperation with Booz Allen Hamilton, held a two-day cyber simulation event including the participation of 230 leaders from government, industry and civil society, as well as many BENS members. This After Action Report summarizes the elements of the simulation, followed by the insights and recommendations that grew out of the gathering on matters including leadership, governance, resilience and public awareness.
Campaign 2008 - Innovative Ideas for Securing America
Innovative solutions to national security challenges facing the United States, drawing on the experience and proven practices of the private sector.
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) - Cooperative Review (August 2008)
BENS, in cooperation with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), reviewed several procurements of an information technology (IT) capability or service with a goal of identifying and quantifying legislative, regulatory, cultural and organizational impediments that contribute to the breakdown in the overall acquisition system.
The Intelligence Community Analysis Project is an investigation into analytical and evaluation best practices of the business community. This report, conducted at the request of our government partners, is the product of individual interviews with the senior leadership of 20 diverse firms that conduct analysis in a manner analogous to our nation’s Intelligence Community agencies - June 2008
Getting
Down to Business - A plan for public-private disaster coordination
Getting
Ready: Company Primer on Preparedness and Response Planning for
Terrorist and Bioterrorist Attacks - revised 2007
Business
Leaders Helping Secure America - How you can help BENS protect
America
Campaign
2006: National Security is Everyone's Business - A Guide for
Candidates
Untangling
the Web - Joint BENS-CSIS
Task Force calls for restructuring of DHS oversight in Congress
Campaign 2004: A
Guide for Candidates
Business Sense for a Safer America - New Defenses for New Threats
Pay
for Performance at the CIA: Restoring Equity Transparency and
Accountability
Recommendations
for Improving the Suspicious Activity Report (SAR)
Campaign 2002: A
Guide for Candidates
The
Report of the Independent Panel on the Central Intelligence Agency
In-Q-Tel Venture June, 2001
Call to Action: Tthe BENS Tail-to-Tooth Commission’s Call to Action heavily influenced the Department’s Defense Transformation effort. The Commission focused on four areas (Acquisition reform, Base realignment and closure (BRAC), Private-sector partnering and Planning, Programming and Budgeting System (PPBS) reform) where spending smarter could have a real impact on the Pentagon’s bottom line. May 2001
Framing
the Problem of PPBS Special Report, January 2000
Changing
the Pentagon's Planning, Programming and Budgeting System: Phase
2 Report 2000
The
Missing Security Issues — A Guide for Candidates
Campaign 2000
Briefing Book The Revolution in Military Business Affairs — This publication
outlines the commission and goals of its task forces with real
solutions on defense outsourcing and privatization
Partnership
or Alliance? The Future of Private-Public Cooperation on Information
Security New Tools, New Teams for New Threats, November 1999
The
Defense Threat Reduction Agency: Counterproliferation Incorporated? BENS Special Report Update, October 1999
Logistics
Transformation: DoD's Opportunity to Partner with the Private
Sector BENS Tail-to-Tooth Issue Brief, October 1999
Statement
of Ramon Marks, Partner, Dorsey & Whitney
June 9, 1999
DoD's
Fledgling "Anti-Doomsday" Agency Takes Wing
BENS Special Report, Spring 1999
Defense
Department Jobs in Transition
Special Report, February 1999
Bracing
for Impact: The National Security Consequences of the Y2K Problem
BENS Special Report, February 1999
The
Changing Face of Terrorism
BENS Trendline, Fall 1998
Defense
Reform: More Smoke Than Fire?
Strategic Review, Fall 1998
Microchips
and the Millennium: The National Security Implications of the
Year 2000 Problem
National Security Studies Quarterly, Summer 1998
Campaign
98--A Guide for Candidates
1998
Biological
Weapons: Defense Improves, but the Threat Remains
BENS Special Report Update, December 1997
Nunn-Lugar:
New Solutions for Today's Nuclear Threats
BENS Special Report, September 1997
Outsourcing & Privatization of Defense Infrastructure
BENS Special Report, March 1997
Assessing
the Biological Weapons Threat
BENS Special Report, February 1997
Twelve
Myths about the Chemical Weapons Convention
January 1997
Information
Security: The Implications of Cyberwar for National Security and
Business
BENS Special Report, November 1996
Peacekeeping
- Perils & Prospects
"The Big Ten" Lessons Learned From Recent Operations
In Somalia, Rwanda, Haiti & Bosnia, January 1996
Turning
the Corner on Base Closure
October 1995
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