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12/8/2005 |
Illinois Homeland Center Forms Advisory
Board Benton Ives-Halperin, CQ Staff
CQ HOMELAND SECURITY - TRANSPORTATION &
INFRASTRUCTURE |
An Illinois business development
center focused on homeland security has
formed an advisory board, whose members
include an Argonne National Laboratory
scientist and a transportation sector
executive.
Members of the board include Jeffrey J.
Consdorf, director of IRCM (infrared
countermeasures) engineering projects,
Northrop-Grumman Corp.; Thomas Ewing, an
associate division director at Argonne
National Laboratory; and Tom Livingston,
resident vice president, CSX
Transportation.
The advisory board will work with the
Homeland Security Innovation and
Entrepreneurship Center (HSIEC) at
Northwestern University, which was
formed through a partnership the with
Illinois Department of Commerce and
Economic Opportunity, the Illinois
Technology Enterprise Center and the
university.
The center will focus on transportation
issues, in part because Chicago is a
major transportation hub, with O'Hare
International Airport and major rail
infrastructure, according to Bret
Johnson, director of HSIEC. "The concern
is security and how technology can be
used to address it," Johnson said in a
prepared statement.
HSIEC launched in October with $350,000
in state funds and support from Gov. Rod
R. Blagojevich. The center is intended
to speed the development of homeland
security projects and help grow the
Illinois economy.
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