The Georgia Business Force is an alliance of private companies focused on active partnership with state government to improve the state’s homeland security and the resilience of the business community in response to natural or manmade threats and disasters.

Neither government nor the business community can secure our nation or communities alone.  Public-Private Partnerships are identified by the Department of Homeland Security as essential to effective preparedness and response to attack or disaster. 

The Georgia Business Force (GBF), was founded in 2003, as a major program of the BENS Southeast Region. The GBF was formed under charter by the Governor of the State of Georgia, as a public-private partnership.  Its mission is to bring private sector support and capabilities to the State of Georgia in its homeland security and disaster response activities.  The GBF addresses readiness and responsiveness to disasters caused by weather, pandemic disease, or attack.

Business Executives for National Security (BENS), a nationwide, non-partisan organization, is the primary channel through which senior business executives can help enhance the nation's security. BENS members use their business experience to drive our agenda, deliver our message to decision makers and make certain that the changes we propose are put into practice. BENS has only one special interest: to help make America safe and secure.

BENS has facilitated the creation of nine regional private-public partnerships to bring this public-private partnership model to state and regional issues.  Each partnership is led by local business leaders in response to specific regional needs.  Each if different; yet the mission of each is similar…enhancing homeland security readiness and the ability to recover from disasters.

 For information about the Georgia Business Force,
contact Harry Ferris at (404) 468-0262 or hferris@bens.org.