-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Congressional Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction (The Gilmore Commission) Next meeting: Sept. 24th from 9:00 am until 4:00 pm at the RAND Washington Office - 1200 North Hayes Street. Boilerplate: "The Advisory Panel will assess the capabilities for responding to terrorist incidents in the U.S. homeland involving weapons of mass destruction. Response capabilities at the Federal, State, and local levels will be examined, with a particular emphasis on the latter two. The Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Attorney General, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has entered into a contract with the National Defense Research Institute (NDRI), a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) at RAND, to establish the Advisory Panel in accordance with Section 1405 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999, Public Law 105-261 (H.R. 3616, 105th Congress, 2nd Session) (October 17, 1998)." Interesting background PDF: "Toward a National Strategy for Combating Terrorism" http://www.rand.org/nsrd/terrpanel/terror2.pdf RAND site: http://www.rand.org/nsrd/terrpanel/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Hush 2.0 wl8EARECAB8FAjurg90YHGF1dG8zMDEwOTRAaHVzaG1haWwuY29tAAoJEKadvsVlUK4P mV8AnRwIRyTYZpsFkPyHMNGYLahmtT53AJ9a9X3rVJc+GXPxPKdMSjpEjBrfAw== =I+NA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----