MONTEREY BAY DEFENSE ALLIANCE (MBDA) is proud to announce Mr. Glen
Woodbury, Director of the Center for Homeland DEFENSE AND SECURITY
(CHDS) at the Naval Postgraduate School, as the keynote speaker at our
quarterly BREAKFAST MEETING. Mr. Woodbury will present an overview of
CHDS and a discussion of the vital role it plays in helping keep our
country safe. Mr. Woodbury served as the Director of the Emergency
Management Division for the State of Washington from 1998 through
2004. In this capacity, he directed the state’s response to numerous
emergencies, disasters and heightened security threat levels. Mr.
Woodbury was the Director during the World Trade Organization
disturbance in Seattle in 1999, the Nisqually Earthquake in February
2001, the TOPOFF II Exercise in 2003, the national response to the
attacks of September 11th, and many other natural and manmade
emergencies and disasters.MBDA is a volunteer group organized by the
City of Monterey with a mission to preserve and promote the
extraordinary network of leading national security assets in the
Monterey Bay Area, which we call the Monterey Bay National Security
Cluster (MBNSC). The breakfast is the second in a series of meetings
intended to encourage dialogue among local community leaders and the
leaders of the MBNSC institutions. The goal is to increase awareness,
promote collaboration and help create a more robust and resilient
national security presence here. Team Monterey, the Department of
Defense (DoD) organizations that comprise the core of the MBNSC,
employs over 15,000 people and contributes more than $1.4 billion in
direct local payroll. With a much larger total economic impact,
national security is one of the four main pillars of the Monterey Bay
economy, along with agriculture, tourism and education.
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