Gen. Gene Renuart, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, talks with military and civilian representatives from Singapore at NORAD’s and USNORTHCOM’s Homeland Defense and Civil Support Perspectives Forum in Colorado Springs, Colo., Oct. 31, 2008. About 60 officials from Australia, Canada, Mexico, Norway, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States met to discuss methods of and ways to improve Homeland Defense and Civil Support processes.