WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- The Homeland Security Institute, the only federally funded U.S. think tank dedicated to the topic, has a new director.
Phil Anderson has not been formally named to the post but United Press International was told an internal notification had gone out to staff at the institute.
Anderson, a former Marine who planned operations in Haiti and Bosnia, comes to the institute from a U.S. subsidiary of the French technology giant Alcatel-Lucent. But until 2003 he led the homeland security program of the prestigious Washington think tank, the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
The Homeland Security Institute is a federally funded research and development center, which assists the Department of Homeland Security by providing technical and analytic expertise, in much the same way that the RAND Corp. has done for the U.S. Air Force since the 1950s, and employes the same quasi-governmental structure.
The institute is independently managed, but its work is assigned by Homeland Security's undersecretary for science and technology, Jay Cohen.
