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Analytic Services Contributes to “Project on National Security Reform”

Arlington, VA – Corporate Fellow Dr. Elin Gursky, M.Sc., Sc.D., and Senior Analyst Sweta Batni recently published an article in the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute’s Project on National Security Reform (PNSR), Case Studies Working Group Report, Vol. 2. The piece, “Failures at the Nexus of Health and Homeland Security: The 2007 Andrew Speaker Case,” provides a summary of the event and recounts the actions taken by key agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control, DHS’s Office of Health Affairs, and the Transportation Security Administration. In the article, Dr. Gursky and Ms. Batni supply an analysis of the 2007 incident involving an individual infected with highly drug resistant tuberculosis that traveled outside the U.S. and was subsequently placed in involuntary isolation upon his return. Further, Dr. Gursky and Ms. Batni’s contribution offers an evalua­tion of the deficiencies in national security policy as it pertains to controlling both intentional and unintentional com­municable disease outbreaks within a global context.   

PNSR’s mission to “revitalize American government by transforming the national security system”, was guided by preeminent strategic thought leaders including: former Director of National Intelligence Admiral Dennis Blair, USN (Ret.); former Supreme Allied Commander, Europe General Wesley Clark, USA (Ret.); former National Security Advisor Lieutenant General Brent Scowcroft, USA (Ret.); and Analytic Services CEO Ruth David, Ph.D. Contributors to the Case Studies Working Group Report, Vol. 2 include: James Locher III, PNSR’s President and CEO; Richard Weitz, Ph.D. Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis, Hudson Institute; and Nicholas Cull, Professor of Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California.

“The fact remains that fully 10-plus years after the events of September 11^th, our Nation has distinct coordination deficiencies at the interagency level. This problem is compounded by the increased speed by which people and products move globally.  Dr. Gursky and Ms. Batni’s critique point this out while offering a clear systems perspective of exactly where the shortcomings lie,” said Dr. David.

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Analytic Services is a not-for-profit public service institute dedicated to informing decisions that shape the Nation’s future. We provide objective studies and analyses for issues concerning national and homeland security, and to select public policy communities. Capabilities are delivered through our ANSER operating unit, the Applied Systems Thinking (ASysT) Institute, and the Homeland Security Studies and Analysis Institute, a federally funded research and development center, operated on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security.