Business Executives for National Security (BENS) is an American 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. It was founded in 1982 by former mining executive Stanley A. Weiss.

Programs supported by BENS have included the Base Realignment and Closure

Base Realignment and Closure

Base Realignment and Closure is a process of the United States federal government directed at the administration and operation of the Armed Forces, used by the United States Department of Defense and Congress to close excess military installations and realign the total asset inventory to reduce...

 program and the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction

Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction

The Cooperative Threat Reduction Program is an initiative housed within the Defense Threat Reduction Agency...

 program.

Board members include former Hewlett-Packard chairman, Carly Fiorina

Carly Fiorina

Carly Fiorina is an American business executive and a former Republican candidate for the United States Senate representing California. Fiorina served as chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005 and previously was an executive at AT&T and its equipment and technology spinoff,...

; former AIG chairman, Maurice R. Greenberg

Maurice R. Greenberg

Maurice Raymond "Hank" Greenberg is an American business executive and former chairman and CEO of American International Group , which was the world's 18th largest public company and its largest insurance and financial services corporation.He is currently chairman and CEO of C.V. Starr & Co., Inc....

; President and CEO of Boies & McInnis, Mary Boies

Mary Boies

Mary McInnis Boies is founding partner of the American law firm Boies & McInnis LLP. The law firm, established in 1988, specializes in antitrust and corporate commercial litigation....

; Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Harman International Industries, Sidney Harman

Sidney Harman

Sidney Harman was an American businessman active in education, government, industry, and publishing. He was the Chairman Emeritus of Harman International Industries, Inc. Harman served as the U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce in 1977 and 1978. As of August 2010 Harman was also the publisher of...

; and former chairman of Goldman Sachs, John C. Whitehead

John C. Whitehead

John Cunningham Whitehead is an American banker and civil servant, currently a board member of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation and, until his resignation in May 2006, chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.-Biography:He was born in Evanston, Illinois...

. The group's current president and CEO is retired Army General Montgomery Meigs

Montgomery Meigs

Montgomery Cunningham Meigs is a retired United States Army General. He is the great-great-great grandnephew of Montgomery C. Meigs...

. The group's current chairman is Joseph E. Robert, Chairman and CEO of J.E. Robert Companies.

BENS is headquartered in Washington, DC.

External links

• www.bens.org