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BENS Studies and Reports


Campaign 2004: A Guide for Candidates

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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BENS In The News

BENS Tail-to-Tooth Roll-Out
Media Coverage 2001


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BENS News Releases

The Comprehensive Test Ban: A Solid Plus for National Security and Science
BENS Hill Advisory October 1, 1999
Business Group to Pentagon and Congress: Both to Blame for Military Reform Failure
BENS Press Release September 25, 1999
DoD's Y2K Strategy May Contain Several Dangerous Flaws
BENS Press Release February 22, 1999
BENS Study Concludes U.S. Is Improving Its Defense Against Bioterrorism
BENS Press Release, January 22, 1999
BENS Hosts Chairman of the Joint Chiefs in Dallas
General Henry H. Shelton to Address Business Leaders
BENS Press Release November, 1998

The Case for Military Base Closures
BENS Hill Advisory May 27, 1997
Business Group Calls for Renewed Battle Against Biological Weapons Threat
BENS Media Advisory, February 27, 1997

Business Executives Rebut Myths about the Chemical Weapons Convention
Media Advisory, January 24, 1997


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Other

Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Commemorative Event
Remarks as Delivered by U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, 1999
Statement of Ramon Marks, Partner, Dorsey & Whitney
Member, Board of Directors, Business Executives for National Security (BENS)

Before the United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Intelligence
June 9, 1999
Remarks of Senator Richard A. Lugar (R-IN) as part of the Business Executives for National Security Tenth Annual Washington Forum
May 6 , 1999
BENS Eisenhower Award for Leadership Dinner
Remarks as Delivered by Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen

May 6, 1999

Statement of Lt. Gen. Thomas G. McInerney, USAF (Ret.), President and CEO, Business Executives for National Security
Before the Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal Government to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, April, 1999

Remarks By John C. Whitehead at BENS Eisenhower Award Dinner
November 5, 1998
Statement of Thomas G. McInerney before the House Committee of Government Reform and Oversight and the Subcommittee of Government Management
September, 1997

Statement of Erik R. Pages, PH.D., Vice President for Policy and Programs Business Executives for National Security before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Economic Development, U.S. House of Representatives
July 17 , 1997
Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen to the BENS Eisenhower Awards Dinner
May 6, 1997

Statement of Thomas G. McInerney Lieutenant General, USAF (Ret.) Former President and CEO, BENS before the National Defense Panel of the Quadrennial Defense Reviewpursuant to the Military Force Structure Review Act Of 1996
April 27, 1997
Statement of Thomas G. McInerney before the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs, and Criminal Justice on Defense Inventory Management
March 20, 1997


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