March 11, 2010 — Business Executives for National Security (BENS) has selected Laura Willoughby as its Washington, D.C., Metro Area regional director. Willoughby most recently served as director of marketing communications at iJET Intelligent Risk Systems, an Annapolis-based global intelligence company.  She was previously executive director of the Chesapeake Regional Technology Council (Anne Arundel Tech Council), a non-profit membership organization representing technology companies in the Baltimore-Washington Corridor. BENS is a national non-profit focused on strengthening our nation's security.