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Reform Institute Advocates Resilience
As Congress is highlighting resilience as a key theme to homeland security during the month of May, The Reform Institute continues its drive to make resilience a cornerstone in the nation’s security.
> Institute brief on Reform and Resilience
Congress Examines Resilience
Reform Institute Senior Advisor Bob Kelly testified at a May 7 hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Border, Maritime and Global Counterterrorism on “Assessing the Resiliency of the Nation’s Supply Chain.”
> Read the Institute press release , written testimony
> Link to hearing testimony and webcast
Reform Institute Puts Resilience Front and Center in New York City
The Reform Institute hosted a national symposium in New York City, Building a Resilient Nation: Enhancing Security, Ensuring a Strong Economy, on March 27 and 28 that brought together approximately 100 corporate executives and industry experts to discuss the importance of resilience to our national and economic security.
> See post-symposium materials, photos and analysis
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Reform Institute Testifies Before Congress on Election Reform
Reform Institute Executive Director Cecilia Martinez testified before the Committee on House Administration of the U.S. Congress on the lessons learned so far concerning election reform. Her testimony was based on data that shows that the lack of access to basic information, such as poll location and registration status, is the biggest barrier to voter participation.
> Read the press release, prepared statement
> Link to hearing testimony and webcast
> Section on Election Administration and Voter Assistance
White Paper Examines Vulnerabilities of the Global Supply Chain and Offers Recommendations for Improvement
Chain of Perils: Hardening the Global Supply Chain And Strengthening America’s Resilience, a new Reform Brief, examines how dependent on the global supply chain the U.S. economy has become. In addition to the opportunities provided by “just-in-time” delivery of goods from virtually anywhere in the world, our reliance on the supply chain presents risks that many businesses are not properly prepared for in the case of a disruption caused by a natural disaster or terrorist attack.
> Read the brief
> Read the press release
Report Highlights Innovative Technologies in Homeland Security
From the Storefront to the Front Lines: The Private Sector and Homeland Security Investment examines new technologies on the market that are finding innovative uses in homeland security.
The examples in the report provide a useful blueprint for public/private partnerships in homeland security and effectively introducing innovations produced by our economy in defending the nation.
> Read the report
> Read the press release
White Paper Offers Principles for Subprime Reform
Learning Lessons and Living the Dream: Principles for Restoring Sanity to the Housing Market provides basic reform principles for restoring the confidence of investors and homebuyers in the housing and mortgage market while ensuring that homeownership is not put out of the reach of worthy families.
> Read the brief
> Read the press release
Report Addresses Need to Improve Cargo Container Security
A new report from the Reform Institute, Containing the Threat: Protecting the Global Supply Chain Through Enhanced Cargo Container Security, examines the critical need to strengthen the security of cargo containers. The paper by Reform Institute Senior Advisor Robert Kelly demonstrates the importance of maritime commerce and the intermodal transportation system to the U.S. economy and points out the serious vulnerabilities with the cargo container that must be addressed.
> Read the report
> Read the Reform Institute press release