Courtney B. Banks, Vice President, Homeland Security, Raytheon Company

Courtney B. Banks, Vice President, Homeland Security – a business unit of Raytheon Company’s Intelligence and Information Systems – draws on resources, technologies, and expertise throughout the company to build products that will enhance homeland security, homeland defense, and international homeland security programs for the United States and its allies throughout the world. Her responsibilities range from programs focused on emergency preparedness and response to infrastructure protection and energy security to transportation security, law enforcement, and security services. Prior to joining Raytheon, Banks served as director of homeland systems solutions for Lockheed Martin Systems Management, where she was responsible for business development, marketing, and management strategies while also serving as a national-security consultant to the federal government and a number of private corporations. She assembled and directed project teams that addressed such complex problems as combating terrorism, crisis planning, prevention and response, consequence management and corporate security. During the Clinton administration she worked in the Office of Head Counsel to the President and was the assistant in charge of global terrorism issues for the assistant secretary of defense for special operations/low-intensity conflict at the Department of Defense. She also was the manager of the Interagency Terrorism Response Awareness Program, where her principal responsibilities were in the fields of counter terrorism and consequence management.