WASHINGTON, DECEMBER 15, 2011– The Homeland Security & Defense Business Council presented its Lifetime Distinguished Service Award to U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn.), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs, at its Annual Dinner tonight.

“This event is about celebrating and recognizing the work of the homeland security community – in both the public and private sectors. The Council’s leadership, members, senior advisors, strategic partners, and our friends in government who understand the role the Council and its members play, and the responsibility we have in working together on our common mission, came together to honor a leader who was instrumental in the creation of the Department of Homeland Security,” said Marc Pearl, President & CEO of the Council. “Ten years after 9/11, we felt it was important to bestow our 2011 Lifetime Distinguished Service Award to Chairman Lieberman, thank him for his steady leadership and dedication to the...