Washington Economic Development
Private Sector Specific
Homeland Security - Private Sector Resources
Washington State Association for Contingency Planners - The Association 
of Contingency Planners is the nation's leading non-profit association, comprising professionals who are responsible for or have an interest in preventing disasters, planning to sustain business operations after a disaster and facilitating the resumption of normal business activities following a major disaster. This website includes state and national resources and information for business sector operations. Members of ACP nationwide represent business, industry and government organizations at all levels. Included are executives, administrators, managers, directors, writers, legal staffs, accountants, engineers, sales-persons, records managers, archivists and many more professionals.
http://www.acp-wa-state.org/
Seattle's Project Impact - Seattle initiative to build disaster resistant communities. This portion of the initiative provides information, tools and resources to businesses to assist in building disaster resistant businesses.
http://www.cityofseattle.net/projectimpact/pages/businesses/businesses.htm
BENS - Business Executives for National Security - A nationwide non-partisan organization that is the primary channel that senior business executives can help the nation's security. BENS has only one special interest and that is to help make America more secure.
http://www.bens.org/
Department of Homeland Security Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Directorate - Congress provided the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with a clear statutory mandate to reduce the vulnerability of the United States to terrorism and to detect, to prevent and to respond to terrorist attacks. DHS is composed of five Directorates, one of which (the Information
Analysis and Infrastructure Protection, IAIP, Directorate) is a member of the Intelligence Community. IAIP's mission to disseminate information analyzed by the Department to State and local government agencies and authorities and private sector entities brings to the post 9/11 federal government a capability for the security and protection of the nation's domestic assets that did not previously exist. The essential function of IAIP is mapping the vulnerabilities of the nation's critical infrastructure against a comprehensive analysis of intelligence and public source information. This function is unique to the federal government and fundamental to the nation's ability to better protect itself from terrorist attack.
http://www.intelligence.gov/1-members_dhs.shtml
ANSER Institute for Homeland Security Web Resources - Links to a wide spectrum of information, resources and organizations to assist businesses and others in all aspects of emergency preparation, response, recovery and prevention efforts.
http://www.homelandsecurity.org/resources.asp?CatID=4
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Business Sector Webpage - DHS website for business sector information and resources on a variety of information to include how to compete for grants.
http://www.homelandsecurity.org/resources.asp?CatID=4
US-CERT - Cyber security information for businesses and the public sector.
http://www.us-cert.gov/press_room/cas-announced.html
Business Executives for National Security, a nationwide, non-partisan organization, is the primary channel through which senior business executives can help enhance the nation's security. BENS members use their business experience to drive our agenda, deliver our message to decision makers and make certain that the changes we propose are put into practice. BENS has only one special interest: to help make America safe and secure.
Homeland Security and Other Federal Grant Information and Links -
http://www.dhs.gov/xopnbiz/grants/
Information Exchange Between the Public and Private Sector for Homeland Security - The Brookings Institution - The objective of Working Group II of the Markle Task Force is to identify the kinds of information that exists in the private sector that is valuable to the homeland security/counter-terrorism efforts, and to develop a strategy that will allow government the ability to access and use it effectively, but in a way that is most consistent with our national interest in privacy and civil liberties.
http://www.brook.edu/views/testimony/steinberg/20030619.htm
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