Regardless of the current political deadlock, long and intermediate term planning for senior policy makers has always been difficult. How do you plan for and sustain a counterinsurgency effort, involve the private sector in emergency management, and shape a military enterprise of 270,000 personnel when your budgetary forecasts are ambiguous at best? These are the challenges of our times, and Analytic Services has been offering decision-makers a dynamic forum to discuss these and similar issues since 1958.

Through our Distinguished Speaker Series we have hosted significant national and international figures to share ideas, provoke thought, and facilitate dialogue about crucial domestic and global issues. Recent speakers have included: John Nagl, President of the Center for a New American Security, who spoke on counterinsurgency lessons the morning after Osama bin Laden was eliminated; Craig Fugate, Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, who elaborated on the "whole of community" approach to preparedness and response in federal disasters four days before the 2011 hurricane Irene; and General James F. Amos, Commandant of the Marine Corps, on the state of the Marine Corps two days after President Obama announced a new U.S. Marine partnership with Australia.

We understand how to prioritize time and that’s exactly why we provide occasions to take a step back and look at the strategic picture. Whether it is immediately before or just after a major national event, the Analytic Services Distinguished Speaker Series has always proven to be timely.

About the Distinguished Speaker Series

The Distinguished Speaker Series provides a public platform to foster thought and provoke dialogue about the issues of our times. Presentation topics have ranged from national and homeland security; intelligence; energy; environment; and healthcare. Other speakers have included: Admiral Thad Allen, former Commandant of the Coast Guard; Tara O’Toole, Undersecretary for Science & Technology, Department of Homeland Security; and Ambassador João Vale de Almeida, the European Union’s Head of Delegation to the United States.

For more information on attending an installment of the Distinguished Speaker Series, please contact us.