Cenus Technologies Joins Homeland Security Technology Delegation; Bay Area Technology and Civic Leadership to Meet with Bush Administration Officials.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 9, 2002 Cenus Technologies(TM) today announced it will join a delegation lead by the Bay Area Economic Forum (BAEF BAEF Belgian American Educational Foundation BAEF British American Educational Foundation BAEF Bulgarian-American Enterprise Fund BAEF Bay Area Economic Forum BAEF Bay Area Editors' Forum BAEF Bay Area Equity Fund ) and the Bay Area Science Infrastructure Consortium (BASIC) for a visit to Washington DC on December 10th and 11th for meetings with Bush Administration officials responsible for homeland security Noun 1. Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security Department of Homeland Security executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States technology. The delegation of Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern civic and business leaders will discuss planning the technology research policy for the structure of the Department of Homeland Security Noun 1. Department of Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security Homeland Security executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States and means for selecting technologies to be developed and deployed in the Department of Homeland Security. The delegation will be presenting its newly released report, "Meeting the Challenge of Homeland Security: Highlights of the Bay Area's Research and Development Capabilities Related to the Critical Mission Areas of the Department of Homeland Security". A leader in advanced next generation networking Next Generation Networking (NGN) is a broad term to describe some key architectural evolutions in telecommunication core and access networks that will be deployed over the next 5-10 years. , Cenus Technologies was recruited by BASIC to join other members of the Bay Area technology elite, the top corporate, academic and research institutions, in the execution of its strategy to bring national centers for research to the Bay Area. Cenus Technologies produced the report along with the members of BASIC and other leaders in the Bay Area corporate research community in response to President Bush's recommendation to create a national program for technology research, development and deployment within the new Department of Homeland Security. Copies of the report may be obtained from the BASIC website: www.bayeconfor.org/BASIC/rep/rep_top.html, or the Cenus website: www.cenus.com. "Cenus Technologies is very honored to be recognized and invited to participate with the other members of the Bay Area and Silicon Valley technology elite in the collaboration towards developing the most advanced systems possible in fulfilling the President's mission for an effective department of Homeland Security," says Eric Johnson
Eric Johnson (born August 17, 1954) is a guitarist and recording artist from Austin, Texas. , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Cenus Technologies. "We recognize the significance of this work; not only are we developing solutions which will protect the national public infrastructure, the solutions developed now will likely become widely available and dominantly deployed in the private infrastructure; and that represents a commercial opportunity of tremendous proportions." Meetings on Capitol Hill with Administration officials will specifically address plans for the Department of Homeland Security's technology research effort and how it will be structured, with the goal to present the unique capacity of California and the Bay Area to address the homeland security challenge, and secure a leadership and key functional role for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: see Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. (body) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - (LLNL) A research organaisatin operated by the University of California under a contract with the US Department of Energy. , and other members of BASIC. Cenus Technologies and fellow delegation members will be asked to discuss the just-released report and address the potential of homeland security research to stimulate California and the Bay Area's technology sector and state and regional economic development, and the unique capacity of California and the Bay Area to provide leadership on this national priority. "The delegation also plans to begin a long-term dialogue with Congressional and Administration leaders around the homeland security challenge, the national research effort and how the resources of the public and private sectors can be harnessed to meet critical homeland security goals," states Dr. Sean Randolph, BAEF President, "meetings will be held with Members of Congress and senior congressional staff to discuss how appropriations for homeland security research will be treated in the next session of Congress, and how California businesses, community leaders and Congressional representatives can work together to support an expanded national research effort." The preliminary list of delegation representatives, along with Cenus Technologies, includes the Bay Area Economic Forum (Bay Area Council and the Association of Bay Area Governments The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) is a regional planning agency incorporating various local governments in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. It deals with land use, housing, environmental quality, and economic development. ) and the Bay Area Science Infrastructure Consortium, the Economic Development Alliance for Business, McKinsey Global Institute, Hewlett -Packard, Sun Microsystems, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Network Associates, Verisign, Inc., SRI International, and the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). . About Cenus Technologies Headquartered in Scotts Valley, California Scotts Valley is a small city located in eastern Santa Cruz County, California, United States, about ten miles (16 km) south of San Jose and six miles (10 km) north of the beach in the upland slope of the Santa Cruz Mountains. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 11,385. , Cenus Technologies is the first company to provide route optimization based on true Layer 7 (Application) based information. Cenus' core technology enables enterprises, carriers and service providers to optimize their networks without the need to re-architect and in a manner that is non-disruptive to existing network routers, caches, servers and other equipment and technologies. Privately held, the company is fully funded from private investors. Contact Cenus at ir@cenus.com or visit our website at www.cenus.com for more information. |
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