Current Projects U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate Homeland Security Research Study (posted 7/24/08)
Client/Funder: U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Background: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Directorate of Science and Technology (S&T) was established by the Homeland Security Act of 2002. S&T’s mission is to improve homeland security by providing state-of-the-art technology to the operating components of DHS as well as to first responders and officials throughout the nation. To this end, S&T develops and manages programs ranging from basic research through technology transition. S&T is also charged with ensuring the coordination of the government-wide homeland security research portfolio. The Report of the House Appropriations Committee accompanying the House version of the DHS Appropriations Act For Fiscal Year 2008 mandates a review by the Academy of both the efficiency and effectiveness of S&T in addressing homeland security needs, as well as an identification of the opportunity costs that may result from the increasing prominence of homeland security priorities in the federal research portfolio.
Project Description: The academy will review a number of aspects of S&T operations. These will include S&T’s overall approach, priorities, criteria for awarding research contracts, methods for gathering information from its customers concerning their needs, and interaction and collaboration with other government and non-government entities related to this research. In addition, the Academy will document the growth of homeland security research budgets over time, and the potential opportunity costs affecting other types of federal government sponsored research. Academy findings and recommendations will be reported in June 2009.
Project Director: Laurie Ekstrand
Panel: The Academy plans to appoint the following individuals to a Panel to oversee and direct the study. The public may comment by email on the composition of the Panel for a period of seven days after the posted date. Please send comments to Laurie Ekstrand at lekstrand@napawash.org.
Cindy L. Williams, Chair*—Senior Fellow and Principal Research Scientist, Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Former Assistant Director, National Security Division, Congressional Budget Office. Former positions with The MITRE Corporation: Director, C2 Integration Environment; Associate Technical Director, Continental Command, Control, and Communications Division; Department Head, Strategic Air Command Systems Department; Associate Department Head, Strategic Defense Initiative. Former positions with U.S. Department of Defense: Director, Strategic Offensive Forces Division, Program Analysis and Evaluation, Office of the Secretary; Operations Analyst. Former positions with RAND Corporation: Mathematician, Strategic Forces Project; Project Leader, Force Operations Team, Automated Wargaming Center.
Barry Bozeman*—Ander Crenshaw Chair, Department of Public Administration and Policy, University of Georgia. Former Regents' Professor of Public Policy, School of Public Policy and Director, Research Value Mapping Research Program, Georgia Institute of Technology; Director, Center for Technology and Information Policy, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and L.C. Smith College of Engineering, Syracuse University; Director, Doctoral Program in Public Administration, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.
Louise K. Comfort*—Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh. Former Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan; Visiting Professor, Center for Urban Safety and Security, School of Engineering, Kobe University, Japan; Associate Professor, School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh; Visiting Professor, Department of Public Administration, Leiden University, Netherlands.
David F. Garrison*—Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Greater Washington Research Program, Center for Urban and Metropolitan Policy, The Brookings Institution. Former Vice President, National Academy of Public Administration. Former positions with U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Counselor to the Deputy Secretary; Acting Director, Office for Civil Rights; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation; Deputy Director and Senior Advisor, Intergovernmental Affairs. Former Director, The Urban Center, Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University. Former positions with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development: General Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Policy Development and Research; Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Policy Development and Research. Former Budget Analyst, Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives; Legislative Counsel, National League of Cities/U.S. Conference of Mayors.
Sally T. Hillsman*—Executive Officer, American Sociological Association. Former Deputy Director, National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice; Vice President, Research Division, National Center for State Courts. Former positions with the Vera Institute of Justice (New York City): Project Director; Assistant Director of Research; Director of Research; Associate Director.
Robert J. Murray*—President and Chief Executive Officer, CNA Corporation. Former Lecturer in Public Policy and Director, JFK School of Government, Harvard University; Dean, Naval War College; Director, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, and Director, Strategic Studies Group (Newport, Rhode Island); Under Secretary of the Navy. Numerous former senior positions with U.S. Department of Defense.
Caroline Purdy—Deputy Assistant Director for Test and Evaluation Division in Systems Engineering and Evaluation Directorate, Domestic Nuclear Detection Office in Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Former positions in the DHS Science and Technology Directorate: Director of Infrastructure/Geophysical Division, Acting Deputy Director for Office of Research and Development, and Director of Office of National Laboratories. Positions held at the Department of Energy in the Office of Environmental Management: program manager in the Office of Science and Technology for the Characterization, Monitoring and Sensor Technology program and Accelerated Site Technology Deployment Program.
