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Panel I: Partnering to Meet the New Security Challenge
Panel I: Partnering to Meet the New Security Challenge
Pages 28-37
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The commission, chaired by former U.S. Senators Gary Hart and Warren Rudman, was an independent panel created by Congress to conduct "the most comprehensive review of American Security since the National Security Act of 1947 was signed into law over 50 years ago." The report urged creation of a new "Homeland Security Agency, and warned, "States, terrorists, and other disaffected groups will acquire weapons of mass destruction, and some will use them.
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These challenges included averting or avoiding collisions with inanimate objects of any sort, and using capacities, some developed by public-private partnerships, to reduce the danger of weather-related incidents. This broadened agency focus meant paying heightened attention to aviation safety in general.
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Moreover, he said, and more tellingly, the Senate Republican counterproposal, crafted with the White House, also maintained the Committee's science and technology structure.4 The Undersecretary for S&T and the Need for Partnerships That is a big change since June, he said, and a significant change. The debate over whether to have an undersecretary for science and technology was not a struggle over bureaucratic minutiae; the issue was whether the department was going to have a clear science and technology focus, with responsibility and accountability concentrated in one person with the expertise to assemble a credible staff and to oversee research and development.
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That is especially true in the area of homeland security, he said, because the problems are so varied; the needed expertise must be gathered from almost every discipline and the results of any R&D will have to be applied as much by the private sector as by the government. Expanding on that point, he reminded his audience that the September 11 attacks had targeted not only public buildings-nor had the anthrax attacks targeted only public buildings: "Every individual and every sector of the economy is at risk." A prerequisite to the involvement of industry, he said, is that products developed to thwart terrorists will have to meet the needs of private entities and succeed in the private marketplace.
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Finally, industry has to be involved, because private firms have perspective on what is needed in this rapidly evolving field, and because advances in computer security must be able to succeed in the private marketplace if they are to have a broad impact. He said that the House Science Committee had assembled a bill called the Computer Security Research and Development Act, H.R.
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The idea for the clearinghouse, based on experience with the Interagency Technical Support Working Group, was to create a single point of entry into the federal government for people in the private sector with ideas or products that might help enhance homeland security. The need for such an operation, he said, became "painfully obvious" in the wake of the anthrax attacks when the government was deluged with suggestions.
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He said that the STEP board had studied for more than over four years how partnerships could be used and, he thought, had probably helped policy makers better understand the role that partnerships could play. Although the committee had not until the present workshop specifically addressed the role of partnerships with respect to terrorism, it had addressed a number of technical areas that would be relevant to questions regarding weapons of mass destruction and other challenges.
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It requires the best minds, including the flexibility to include future technology; it needs an adequate budget, built with off-the-shelf software and hardware products; and it probably requires a short-term and long-term strategy that will be most effective in handling the security problems we've looking forward to." He said that during its four-plus-year study of government-industry partnerships, the STEP board had discovered that government-industry partnerships can indeed work. "They've helped us to meet some of our national missions," he said; "they've been used effectively since the founding of our country; and our studies
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"If I'd mentioned the need for a Cyber Security Research and Development Act before 9/11, I have had a hard time getting many people enthused about it." On September 10, he said, he doubted if he could have convinced even the principals in such a project to show up for a meeting. Congressional representatives wanted to know, "How does that impact me, how does that affect my constituents." And yet recently that same bill had passed by 400 to 12.
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That, he said, would be "more important than some organizational twist." Ronald Stoltz of Sandia Laboratories said that his facility was actively involved in a bridging role with Lawrence Livermore labs in preparation for the new DHS. He said they were using existing capabilities, not building new ones.
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