|
Maxwell graduate, Senator Nancy Larraine Hoffmann, returned to the school Friday as a guest lecturer on community and government relations. She joined Bill Smullen, Deputy Director of the Program and a retired Army colonel and former Chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, and David Berteau, Director of the Program and former Deputy Secretary of Defense. |
Military officials with a rank of colonel and higher plus civilian government officials with similar authority attended Maxwell's National Securities Studies Program. |
The program explores the range of national security management challenges addressing global economics, interagency coordination, collective defense arrangements, and public-private perspectives. |
Senator Hoffmann filled in for U.S. Senator John Warner (R, Virginia). He was unable to attend because of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Senator Hoffmann offered participants insight into local-national government agency interaction. |
Senator Hoffmann and Onondaga County Emergency Management Director Pete Alberti fielded questions about how to handle the local news media in crisis situations. |
|