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How DHS Can Help

Posted: August 26th, 2015

By Suzanne Spaulding

Suzanne Spaulding is senior adviser for homeland security and director of the Defending Democratic Institutions project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Previously, she served as undersecretary for the Department of Homeland Security. She has worked in the executive branch in Republican and Democratic administrations.

The Cipher Brief sat down with Suzanne Spaulding, the Department of Homeland Security’s Under Secretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate.  She shared her thoughts on areas of collaboration between the public and the private sector, and the ways DHS can help.

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