The Homeland Security Financing Briefing

Thursday, February 5, 2004

Ballroom
National Press Club
529 14th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20045

You are invited to attend the February 5 Homeland Security Financing Briefing, the leading Washington forum on homeland security. Program highlights include:

• Details on homeland security spending in 2004 and 2005 will be presented by Bill Hoagland, Director of Budget & Appropriations for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, and by Michael Dufault, Research Director for Equity International. President Bush has just announced a 9.7% increase in 2005 homeland security spending and recently signed the 2004 budget into law.
  
  
• Valuable information will be provided on the impact of the new spending on the programs of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including Customs & Border Protection and the Transportation Security Administration.
  
  
• Homeland security financing by venture capital will be provided by three leading venture capital executives:  Dr. A. L. Andreassen, Principal, Paladin Homeland Security Fund; Mark A. Frantz, Vice President -Venture Partners, The Carlyle Group; and Robb Doub, Managing Director, New Markets Growth Fund.
  
  
• And the keynote address is expected to be provided by Congressman Curt Weldon, Vice Chairman, House Armed Services Committee, and a leading proponent of homeland security.

Networking at the Briefing can also be invaluable. Leading government officials and business executives are attending. See the Attendees List by clicking on the link at the left of this page.

All of our Briefings during the past year have been packed. To secure your seat, register now. We accept Visa, MasterCard, and American Express (no refunds are available for this Briefing). The fee is $275. To register, click here

The Briefing is organized by Equity International, the leading facilitator of business involvement in homeland security, and sponsored by USProtect and Government Security News. Past Briefing speakers have included House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Harold Rogers; Dr. David Bolka, Director of the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency; Mark Holman, Deputy Assistant to the President for Homeland Security; Dale Watson, FBI Executive Assistant Director for Counterterrorism; Bob Gardner, CFO of the Transportation Security Administration; Bill Hoagland, Director of Budget & Appropriations for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist; the staff directors of three key House and Senate budget and appropriations committees; and dozens of top U.S. agency officials and corporate executives. Over 1,400 key leaders have participated in our exclusive Briefings. News media coverage has included leading wire services, the nation's top newspapers, and all major television networks.