Richard Spires, CEO, Resilient Network Systems

Seventy-eight fusion centers scattered across the country help streamline information sharing during a terrorist attack or natural disaster. The fusion centers ...

Seventy-eight fusion centers scattered across the country help streamline information sharing during a terrorist attack or natural disaster. The fusion centers bring together local, state and federal agencies to quickly deal with those types of threats. Richard Spires is CEO of Resilient Network Systems. He’s also former chief information officer of the Homeland Security Department. On In Depth with Francis Rose, he explained whether modern information-sharing techniques, like the fusion centers, are actually making the country safer.

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