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Contact: Alan Fogg, afogg@fceda.org,
703-790-0600 (office) or 571-213-5065 (mobile)
FCEDA sponsors Homeland Security workshop featuring retired Major General Bruce Lawlor
“DHS at 5 Years: Insights, Opportunities and the Future,” at the
Tower Club Tysons Corner, May 16
Fairfax County, Virginia USA, April 14, 2008—Retired Major General Bruce Lawlor, Professor of Practice and Director of the Center for Technology, Security, and Policy at Virginia Tech, will discuss Department of Homeland Security (DHS) at 5 Years: Insights, Opportunities and the Future, at a lunchtime workshop on Friday, May 16, noon to 1:30 p.m., at the Tower Club Tysons Corner, 8000 Towers Crescent Drive, Suite 1700, Vienna (Tysons Corner), Virginia.
The event is sponsored by Virginia Tech’s Center for Public Administration and Policy (CPAP) in the National Capital Region and the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority (FCEDA).
The fee for the workshop is $40, which includes lunch and a DHS at 5 Years Resource Package, featuring research and insights related to understanding and working with DHS. Registration is open to the public. Seating is limited; early registration is recommended. Contact: Cuykendall@vt.edu , or (703) 518-2710.
Lawlor will discuss how the DHS has emerged from a five-year interagency struggle, weakened but still moving forward, building value for the American people. He will also look to the future and the challenge the new President will face -- to provide the DHS with guidance for change, at the same time preserving the good the agency has already achieved.
Lawlor served as the first Chief of Staff of the Department of Homeland Security, under Tom Ridge and as a Senior Director on the Homeland Security Council staff. He is also the former commanding general of the Defense Department's Joint Task Force for Civil Support, where he established military civil-support teams to assist local authorities in the event of a major terror attack on U.S. soil.
He joined Virginia Tech earlier this year to head the newly-formed Center for Technology, Security and Policy, which focuses on national homeland security theory, operations, and decision support technology at the strategic and operational levels.
About Virginia Tech's Center for Public Administration and Policy (CPAP)
The Master's Degree in Public Administration is available through Virginia Tech's Center for Public Administration and Policy (CPAP) at its campuses in Old Town Alexandria, Richmond and Blacksburg.
Homeland security, federalism, leadership and management, public budgeting, personnel and human resources management, policymaking and decisionmaking are just a few of the many topics the program covers. Learn more about Virginia Tech's MPA program, the faculty and array of practitioner-oriented course offerings at CPAP's Web siteat www.cpap.vt.edu.
About the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority
The Fairfax County Economic Development Authority (www.FairfaxCountyEDA.org) promotes Fairfax County, Virginia, as a business and technology center. In 2007 Time magazine called Fairfax County “one of the great economic success stories of our time.” It is the Washington, D.C., area’s private-sector job leader and is a major hub for regional economic activity. The FCEDA maintains marketing offices in San Francisco, Bangalore, Frankfurt, London, Seoul and Tel Aviv.
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