National Security Preparedness Group

About the Group

The National Security Preparedness Group (NSPG) intends to re-assess progress on the initial 9/11 Commission recommendations to develop an updated baseline and then analyze the new or continuing challenges in today’s environment. The NSPG intends to follow a process that mirrors the original commission approach to provide useful public discourse on the issues as well as suggest policy options as solutions.

Ten Years After: The Status on National Security and the Implementation of the 9/11 Commission’s Recommendations
Aug. 31, 2011

Tenth Anniversary Report Card: The Status of the 9/11 Commission Recommendations
Aug. 31, 2011

A decade after the September 11 terrorist attacks, nine of the 41 recommendations made by the 9/11 Commission in July 2004 remain unfinished.

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Sept. 11 Anniversary Report Card: Not a Lot of A's
Aug. 31, 2011

Ten years after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, the 9/11 Commission report card on making this country safer from terrorist attacks revealed today U.S. security scored very few A's, lots of C's and incompletes, and at least two significant F's... "We are still highly vulnerable to aviation security threats," said the report, released today by the Bipartisan Policy Center.

AUDIO: BPC's Rob Strayer chats about cyber security
Article · nakedsecurity · Oct. 23, 2011

FBI, DEA thwart terror plot in U.S. involving Iran, officials say
Article · CNN · Oct. 11, 2011

After 10 years of war in Afghanistan, Hoosiers reflect
Article · The Indianapolis Star · Oct. 7, 2011

Ex-Gov. Tom Kean says Congress has failed to act on many 9/11 Commission recommendations
Article · The Star-Ledger · Sept. 22, 2011

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