Senior Research Fellow Jamie Barnett is currently serving under an IPA agreement as Chief, Public Safety & Homeland Security Bureau, for the Federal Communications Commission.  From August 16-19, he was a participant and guest speaker at the Aspen Institute’s 26th Annual Conference on Communications Policy, entitled “Rules of the Digital Road: Privacy, Security, Property.”  This year's conference addressed the challenges inherent in creating a trusted environment online, usually in the form of measures by governments and businesses. Barnett, pictured at left at the conference, made a presentation on cybersecurity policy, defeating routing hijacking and securing the communications supply chain.  Click below to read his opening remarks and view slides from the presentation.

Alden Munson is a Senior Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies , an advisor to government and industry in space and intelligence, and a former US deputy director of national intelligence for acquisition and technology. In a commentary for Space News,  he writes that the intelligence community has made great strides in the areas of planning and procurement, which have contributed to such stunning successes as the raid on the Bin Laden compound in Pakistan. Munson observes that there has been "substantial progress made in addressing shortcomings in the processes for planning intelligence collection, analyzing data, creating reports and assessments, and then sharing such reports and assessments among all who have legitimate need." Click here to read the article in full.

Prof. Yonah Alexander, PhD, heads the Potomac Institute's International Center for Terrorism Studies. In comments to the Boston Herald about the possibility of terrorist attacks in this 9/11 anniversary period, he warned that terrorists could be looking to use weapons of mass destruction.  "There is no end to the imagination of the terrorist," he says.  Click here to read the article in full.

Prof. Yonah Alexander, PhD, heads the Potomac Institute's International Center for Terrorism Studies.  In a recent op-ed  co-authored with Dr. Milton Hoenig for the Jerusalem Post, he warns that Al Qa'ida remains determined to carry out attacks against the West, and is highly motivated to avenge the death of Usama bin Laden.  Moreover, the authors write, the terrorist group continues to pursue weapons of mass destruction and could aspire to strike with a nuclear device, perhaps as a follow-up to the 9/11 attacks of ten years ago.  "The sights are definitely on something big," they write. Click here to read the article in full.