Founded in 1982 BENS supports the U.S. government by applying best business practice solutions to its most difficult national security problems.
Founded in 1982 by business executive and entrepreneur Stanley A. Weiss, nonpartisan and non-profit Business Executives for National Security (BENS) supports the U.S. government by applying best business practice solutions to its most difficult national security problems. For thirty years, BENS has served as the primary channel through which senior American business leaders contribute special expe
Founded in 1982 by business executive and entrepreneur Stanley A. Weiss, nonpartisan and non-profit Business Executives for National Security (BENS) supports the U.S. government by applying best business practice solutions to its most difficult national security problems. For thirty years, BENS has served as the primary channel through which senior American business leaders contribute special expe
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The countdown to launch is 'on' for BENS member and Shift4Payments CEO Jared Isaacman. He and the crew are now scheduled to make their historic all-civilian space flight Wednesday! #Inspiration4
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/13/inspiration4-spacex-civlian-space-flight/
None of the crew has been to space before.
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We'll never forget the shock & horror we felt on 11 Sep 2001 or the 2,977 people whose lives were taken from us. We pause to remember those in our military/intel agencies who sacrificed their lives in wars that followed. We share this video of remembrance, with GEN Joe Votel, USA (ret) https://vimeo.com/601217066
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Never forget the 2,977 people whose lives were taken from us and remember all those in the military and intelligence agencies who sacrificed their lives in the wars that followed.
Never forget the 2,977 people whose lives were taken from us and remember all those in the military and intelligence agencies who sacrificed their lives in the wars that followed.
On September 11th we will pause to remember.
On September 11th we will pause to remember.
Tomorrow we commemorate the twentieth anniversary of September 11, 2001. See GEN Votel's, USA (ret.) and BG Tom Cosentino's video of remembrance. We will never forget the shock and horror we felt on that morning or the 2,977 men and women whose lives were taken from us. We remember the men and women in our military and intelligence agencies who sacrificed their lives in the wars that followed. We also pause to give thanks to our first responders, and civilians who came forward in acts of heroism, kindness, and charity to step up and do extraordinary things for others. #neverforget https://vimeo.com/601217066
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Thanks to CARE and former defense leaders--including our own BENS President and CEO General Joseph Votel--who are encouraging vaccination to fight COVID-19. Vaccination is safe, effective, and a crucial step for ending the public health crisis. #COVID #GetVaccinated
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=816315615689169
In recent years, the geography of US defense spending has been undergoing a subtle shift, growing more concentrated among fewer locations. See what's driving the trends in a deep analysis by @DberensonDoug for @WarOnTheRocks
https://warontherocks.com/2021/09/the-evolving-geography-of-the-u-s-defense-industrial-base/
Rosie the Riveter worked in California. One of more than 310,000 women who toiled in the U.S. aircraft industry in 1943, she became emblematic of a
Stanley A. Weiss, a swashbuckling, self-made mining magnate and bon vivant of the old school, who believed his life was saved by the atomic bomb, made a fortune supplying a material that made nuclear weapons possible, and then founded two organizations to ensure nuclear weapons were never used again, has passed away at the age of 94. Weiss lived an improbable American life and launched a new era of public-private cooperation on national security issues. His legacy continues to inspire. https://www.bens.org/saweiss_tribute
Stanley A. Weiss, a swashbuckling, self-made mining magnate and bon vivant of the old school, who believed his life was saved by the atomic bomb, made a fortune supplying a material that made nuclear weapons possible, and then founded two organizations to ensure nuclear weapons were never used again, has passed away at the age of 94. Weiss lived an improbable American life and launched a new era of public-private cooperation on national security issues. His legacy continues to inspire. https://www.bens.org/saweiss_tribute
Thanks to CARE and former defense leaders--including our own BENS President and CEO General Joseph Votel--who are encouraging vaccination to fight COVID-19. Vaccination is safe, effective, and a crucial step for ending the public health crisis. #COVID #GetVaccinated
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=816315615689169
Thanks to CARE and former defense leaders--including our own General Joseph Votel--who are encouraging vaccination to fight COVID-19. Vaccination is safe, effective, and a crucial step for ending the public health crisis.
https://www.facebook.com/carefans/posts/10159254319792159
I chose to get the COVID-19 vaccine because it's safe, effective and it's my duty to protect my health, my family and my country.
Congrats to BENS member Greg Mason, recipient of the 2021 NHSA Col. Robert E. Williams Leadership Award! Greg is Program Administrator of the Atlanta Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) and Senior Group Manager for the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Homeland Security and Recovery Division. The award was presented at the 2021 National Homeland Security Conference this week. Shout out to the many attendees celebrating homeland security professionalism at #NHSC2021 @NationalUASI!
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ICYMI, General Joseph Votel op-ed in The Hill: “It is a credit to our military that we have evacuated nearly 100,000 evacuees under these conditions” in Afghanistan as the deadline for withdrawal approaches.
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/569594-evacuating-is-the-most-demanding-mission-of-20-years-in-afghanistan?rl=1
No one wanted this to end in the way that it has. This evacuation is unprecedented in terms of scope and challenge.
Excellent profile in TIME magazine of BENS member & Shift4Payments CEO Jared Isaacman as he prepares to democratize space flight next month via mission Inspiration4, the first all-civilian, non-government crew to take orbit
https://time.com/magazine/us/6089812/august-23rd-2021-vol-198-no-7-u-s/
Photograph by Philip Montgomery for TIME TIME Science Space Four Civilian Astronauts. Three Days in Orbit. One Giant Leap. Meet the Inspiration4 Crew Jeffrey Kluger @jeffreykluger Aug. 10, 2021 SHARE Philip Montgomery for TIME Jared Isaacman, commander of the Inspiration4 crew, the world’s first a...
Among the nonprofits doing vital work in the Afghanistan evacuation effort is the Pacific Council on International Policy, for which several BENS members are active volunteers. Please consider supporting their initiative today.
https://www.pacificcouncil.org/content/rapid-response-afghanistan-0
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Listen to General Joseph Votel on the Four Star Forum podcast: amid instability in Afghanistan, how will U.S. protect its interests in the Central Asia region?
https://anchor.fm/francis-rose/episodes/15-Gen--Joseph-Votel--USA-ret--on-the-situation-in-Afghanistan--and-what-comes-next-e165obq
The collapse of the Afghan government and the Taliban’s takeover of the country have dominated headlines around the world this week. General Joseph Votel (USA ret.) is President and CEO of Business Executives for National Security. He’s former commander of U-S Central Command and Special Operati...
General Joseph Votel spoke with The Cipher Brief about latest developments in the US exit from Afghanistan
https://www.thecipherbrief.com/the-painful-lessons-of-afghanistan
General Joseph L. Votel (Ret.) joined BENS as CEO & President in January 2020 following a 39-year military career where he commanded special operations and conventional forces at every level; last serving as the Commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) where he was responsible for U.S. and coalit...
A new report by Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology shows that since the mid-2000s, China has consistently graduated more STEM PhDs than the United States, a key indicator of a country’s future competitiveness in STEM fields. In next 5yrs the gap is expected to increase significantly.
https://cset.georgetown.edu/publication/china-is-fast-outpacing-u-s-stem-phd-growth/
Since the mid-2000s, China has consistently graduated more STEM PhDs than the United States, a key indicator of a country’s future competitiveness in STEM fields. This paper explores the data on STEM PhD graduation rates and projects their growth over the next five years, during which the gap betw...
Tune in to '5 Questions with the CEO' podcast for 18-min discussion w/ Gen. Joseph Votel & BENS member Dr. Suzet McKinney on COVID-19 response, the intersection of national security & public health, and her new role in urban lab campus development at Sterling Bay
https://www.bens.org/pages/podcast/5-questions-with-the-ceo
Tune in to '5 Questions with the CEO' podcast for 18-min discussion w/ Gen. Joseph Votel & BENS member Dr. Suzet McKinney on COVID-19 response, the intersection of national security & public health, and her new role in urban lab campus development at Sterling Bay
https://www.bens.org/pages/podcast/5-questions-with-the-ceo
This week on the BENS podcast General Votel interviews BENS Chicago member Dr. Suzet McKinney, Principal and Director of Life Sciences for commercial real estate developer Sterling Bay. In this role, McKinney helps create urban campus labs and research environments optimized for quality of life. She shares perspectives from her work as a former public health official and educator who literally wrote the book about emergency response (Public Health Emergency Preparedness: A Practical Approach for the Real World.) Votel and McKinney discuss lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic response, decompressing the health care system in Illinois through alternative care facilities, and the intersection of national security and commercial real estate. https://www.bens.org/pages/podcast/5-questions-with-the-ceo
This week on the BENS podcast General Votel interviews BENS Chicago member Dr. Suzet McKinney, Principal and Director of Life Sciences for commercial real estate developer Sterling Bay. In this role, McKinney helps create urban campus labs and research environments optimized for quality of life. She shares perspectives from her work as a former public health official and educator who literally wrote the book about emergency response (Public Health Emergency Preparedness: A Practical Approach for the Real World.) Votel and McKinney discuss lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic response, decompressing the health care system in Illinois through alternative care facilities, and the intersection of national security and commercial real estate. https://www.bens.org/pages/podcast/5-questions-with-the-ceo
To put COVID-19 behind us for good, the US & G-7 nations must be drivers of the global vaccination effort. Encouraged to see signers and sponsors of today's WSJ Open Letter to POTUS calling for increasing vaccine access worldwide.
https://twitter.com/StarrCompanies/status/1425097586529210368?s=20
“Maurice R. Greenberg, Chairman & CEO, C.V. Starr & Co. organized an Open Letter to the President from a group of 34 national leaders, calling on the U.S. and G-7 countries to commit to an effort to vaccinate the global population against COVID-19 https://t.co/FVYo27wG5w”
BENS TX Member George Graffy traveled to Stennis, MS to serve as a private sector Mentor for USSOCOM's SLIC program (Strategic Leaders International Course).
George will continue to work with the cohort of international officers and government officials over the next 5 weeks as they analyze regional and strategic security concerns within the USSOCOM curriculum.
BENS TX Member George Graffy traveled to Stennis, MS to serve as a private sector Mentor for USSOCOM's SLIC program (Strategic Leaders International Course).
George will continue to work with the cohort of international officers and government officials over the next 5 weeks as they analyze regional and strategic security concerns within the USSOCOM curriculum.
After an illuminating wargaming loss, the Joint Chiefs began an overhaul and shifted toward a new concept they call “Expanded Maneuver.” Hyten wants the U.S. military to be ready to fight under this overhauled Joint Warfighting Concept by 2030
https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2021/07/it-failed-miserably-after-wargaming-loss-joint-chiefs-are-overhauling-how-us-military-will-fight/184050/
In a fake battle for Taiwan, U.S. forces lost network access almost immediately. Hyten has issued four directives to help change that.
Egypt is in a much better position than the US, culturally and strategically, to act as a good-faith mediator between these Arab factions involved in the peace process, according to commentary by BENS Board Vice Chair Ramon Marks in The National Interest.
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/many-problems-perplexing-palestinian-peace-process-190250
America must take a step back and allow Egypt to act as a good-faith mediator between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
Waste industry giants made most of their profits by burying garbage in the ground, said Morris. “When I heard this, I thought this was absolutely crazy. They own the landfill and when they pick up your garbage they take it to the landfill that they own and charge you rent.” BENS member Nate Morris on disrupting incentives of the waste industry at Rubicon. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5-questions-with-the-ceo-nate-morris/id1570828056?i=1000529520870
Waste industry giants made most of their profits by burying garbage in the ground, said Morris. “When I heard this, I thought this was absolutely crazy. They own the landfill and when they pick up your garbage they take it to the landfill that they own and charge you rent.” BENS member Nate Morris on disrupting incentives of the waste industry at Rubicon. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5-questions-with-the-ceo-nate-morris/id1570828056?i=1000529520870
This week on the BENS podcast we spoke with member Nate Morris of Rubicon, a software company that has its sights on a cleaner environment on Earth as well as in space. Morris and his team are challenging the environmentally harmful incentives of the waste management industry, and also finding private sector solutions to the threat of space debris.
https://www.bens.org/pages/podcast/5-questions-with-the-ceo
This week on the BENS podcast we spoke with member Nate Morris of Rubicon, a software company that has its sights on a cleaner environment on Earth as well as in space. Morris and his team are challenging the environmentally harmful incentives of the waste management industry, and also finding private sector solutions to the threat of space debris.
https://www.bens.org/pages/podcast/5-questions-with-the-ceo
Yesterday, BENS President and CEO, GEN Joe Votel (ret.) and BENS Competitiveness Council Chairman, Michael Capps, were honored to host a collaborative discussion with Keith Krach, former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment. The discussion focused on Great Power Competition and the value of innovation and partnership in this prevailing economic and security challenge.
In addition to his service as Under Secretary, Keith Krach is the former chairman and CEO of DocuSign, and is recognized for his work in B2B Commerce and Digital Transaction Management. He was also Chairman of the Board at Angie’s List and the youngest-ever Vice President of General Motors. Today, he continues his record of transformational leadership with the launch of the Center for Technology Diplomacy at Purdue University. BENS is excited to bring you this discussion in its entirety. https://lnkd.in/gU9DwfD
#greatpowercompetition #cleannetwork #BENS #5gnetworks
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