On Nov. 17 and 18 the Center for Strategic Leadership was joined by its partners in the Consortium for Homeland Defense and Security in America in hosting the 5th annual Homeland Defense and Security Symposium at Carlisle Barracks. The final panel presentation, devoted to a call for building a National Preparedness Framework to accompany the existing National Response Framework, was headed by Jena Baker McNeill of the Heritage Foundation. Joining McNeill on the panel were Lt. Ron Levell of the Seattle Police Department and a member of the Homeland Security Information Network Advisory Committee, Kirstjen Nielsen, former Special Assistant Prevention, Preparedness and Response to President George W. Bush, and Barbara Cross, County Commissioner of Cumberland County.

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