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The National Security Institute regularly engages with Congress, supporting members and their staffs, as well as executive branch officials, on critical national security topics ranging from technology and innovation policy issues to a diverse spectrum of global security challenges.
NSI and our robust network of experts provide actionable policy recommendations and insightful nonpartisan policy analysis to various government stakeholders in a variety of ways.  Learn more about us below.
 
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NSI has a bipartisan group of over 250 experts who bring decades of experience from public service, including from a wide range of counterterrorism, defense, and intelligence agencies, as well as those who have held senior positions across Congress, private industry, and the technology community. NSI’s experts are available and excited to share their insights with the policymaking community.
See our full list of experts here.
 
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Gen. Keith Alexander (Ret.)
Former Director, NSA
Commander, USCYBERCOM
Dmitri Alperovitch
Co-Founder and Chairman
Silverado Policy Accelerator
Sue Gordon
Strategic Advisor
Insight Partners
Paul Rosenzweig
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
 
Recent Congressional Testimony
May 20, 2026
Jamil N. Jaffer
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Twenty-Five Years After 9/11 – Reviewing the 9/11 Commission & Intelligence Reform Impacts
April 26, 2026
Mark Montgomery
House Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection: Data Centers, Telecommunications Networks, and Space-Based Systems: Modernizing DHS’s SRMA Role for the Communications and IT Sectors
April 21, 2026
Megan Stifel
House Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement and Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection: Online Scams, Crypto Fraud, and Digital Extortion: An Examination of How Transnational Criminal Networks Target Americans
April 16, 2026
Dmitri Alperovitch
House Select Committee on Strategic Competition Between the U.S. and the CCP: China’s Campaign to Steal America’s AI Edge
March 25, 2026
Stewart Baker
U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee: The Rising Global Scam Economy: Modernizing Federal Approaches to Protect Americans from Foreign Fraudsters
 
See all previous Congressional testimony from NSI experts here.
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