People on the DHS Color-Coded Review Panel

Richard Ben-Veniste, David Bradley, William Webster, Frances Frago Townsend and Manny Diaz will serve on a new homeland security advisory board (AP, Reuters, Post)

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano today named a bipartisan task force to consider changes to the nation's color-coded terror warning system.

The group will be led by former White House homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend and former CIA and FBI director William Webster. The group will assess how well the Homeland Security Advisory System informs the public, private sector and government about current threats and needed protective steps, The Post's Spencer S. Hsu reports.

Here's the full membership of the advisory board:

Townsend

Webster

Randy Beardsworth, former assistant secretary for strategic plans at DHS and a principal with Catalyst Partners

Richard Ben-Veniste, partner at Mayer Brown LLP and member of the 9/11 Commission

Matt Bettenhausen, California homeland security adviser

David Bradley, owner of the Atlantic Media Group (Much to the surprise of two of his blogging employees)

James Carafano, senior member at the Heritage Foundation

Manny Diaz, Mayor of Miami

Clark Ervin, director of the Aspen Institute’s Homeland Security Program and former DHS inspector general

Mary Fetchet, founding director of VOICES of September 11th

Shirley Franklin, mayor of Atlanta

Rick Fuentes, superintendent of the New Jersey State Police and State Director of Emergency Management

George Gascon, San Francisco chief of police

Christine Gregoire, governor of Washington

Michael Rounds, governor of South Dakota

Joe Shirley, president of Navajo Nation

Ed Skyler, deputy mayor of New York City