About Us

WHO WE ARE
The Center for National Policy is an independent think tank located in Washington, DC focused on national infrastructure, national and homeland security and resilience issues. Entering its third decade of service, CNP is serving as a catalyst for insightful dialogue and informing pragmatic policy solutions on these critical issues.

Since its founding in 1981, CNP has built a reputation as an organization that bridges the partisan divide in Washington by taking thoughtful and principled positions on many of the most pressing issues facing the nation. As CNP’s sixth President, Dr. Stephen Flynn is continuing the proud tradition of intellectual leadership, civil dialogue, and public service advanced by such distinguished former CNP leaders as Cyrus Vance, Edmund Muskie, Madeleine Albright, Leon Panetta and Tim Roemer.

Independent visionary leadership has never been more important.  We live in a world in which our presumptions, policies and institutions are increasingly ill-suited for the array of challenges that confront us.  Yet if history is our guide, Americans will transform these challenges into opportunity.  Since the nation's founding, every generation has added an inspiring chapter to the uniquely American story of innovation, renewal, and resilience.  CNP is committed to embracing and building on that great legacy.


OUR PRIORITIES
At the Center for National Policy, we have three priorities for ensuring that Americans thrive now and into the future:

• Understanding emerging global threats and redefining our homeland security and national security policies and tools to meet them.
• Strengthening national resilience by inspiring and guiding Americans to better withstand, recover from, and adapt to chronic risks and periodic catastrophes.
• Building next-generation infrastructure by applying our innovative spirit to this vital national security, economic, and sustainability imperative.
  

WHAT WE DO
As we approach our fourth decade of service, the Center for National Policy will:

• Leverage our special standing in Washington as an independent think-tank that is well-respected by legislative leaders and policy makers from across the political spectrum.
• Play a leadership role as both an ideas generator as well as a highly successful convener of the best thinkers and practitioners from across the nation.
• Promote civil dialogue around innovative and practical solutions that demonstrate anew America’s resilient spirit and unlimited capacity for renewal.