Critical Infrastructure Protection

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Every nation has an obligation to protect essential government, financial, energy, transportation, and other critical infrastructure operations against terrorist activities and natural disasters. RAND addresses homeland security and critical infrastructure needs through objective research that assists national, state, and local agencies in preventing and mitigating terrorist activities, as well as in improving disaster preparedness, response, and recovery.

Research conducted by: RAND Justice, Infrastructure, and Environment; RAND National Security Research Division; Supply Chain Policy Center; Center for Terrorism Risk Management Policy; RAND Project AIR FORCE; RAND Europe

Research Briefs (15)

Targeted Use of Theater Inventory to Effectively Sustain Overseas Forces While Minimizing Supply Chain Costs — Nov 29, 2011

Discusses how to design a distribution network that takes advantage of the respective strengths of different modes of transportation to meet combatant command needs while minimizing total supply chain costs.

The Public Health System a Decade After 9/11: Key Successes and Continuing Challenges — Aug 22, 2011

Despite substantial improvements in public health systems and preparedness since 9/11, significant challenges remain, and a cultural shift is needed to engage all sectors of society in emergency preparedness, response, and recovery.

Building Community Resilience to Disasters: A Roadmap to Guide Local Planning — Feb 22, 2011

Examines ways in which communities can improve their ability to withstand and recover from adversity.

Security at what cost? Quantifying trade-offs across liberty, privacy and security — Jun 8, 2010

RAND Europe undertook an internally funded, innovative discrete choice experiment to understand the real privacy and security trade-offs individuals are willing to make in order to inform policymakers about citizens' true preferences in this domain.

Risk Communication in the Early Stages of the H1N1 (Swine Flu) Alert: How Effective Were State and Local Public Health Departments? — Aug 11, 2009

Presents an assessment of how effectively state and local health departments communicated information regarding the April 2009 H1N1 virus (swine flu) outbreak via the Web to their constituents.

Does Imported Oil Threaten U.S. National Security? — May 5, 2009

U.S. reliance on oil risks the economic costs of disruption in global oil supplies. The United States would reduce the national security costs of importing oil by supporting well-functioning oil markets and imposing an oil excise tax.

Assessing a Coal-to-Liquids Fuel Industry in the United States — Nov 30, 2008

Government actions to gain early experience in producing liquid fuels from coal offer major energy security benefits but also raise important economic governance, and environmental issues.

Cybersecurity Economic Issues: Corporate Approaches and Challenges to Decisionmaking — Nov 18, 2008

This research brief addresses key cybersecurity concerns, such as protecting critical products and services and ensuring that software will work. It identifies how organizations perceive the importance of cybersecurity in making investment decisions.

Schools Not Sustaining Mental Health Aid to Children Displaced by Hurricane Katrina — Oct 18, 2007

Despite strong initial efforts to support the mental health needs of students displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, many schools have not been able to fulfill students' mental health needs over the long term.

Promoting Accountability in Public Health Emergency Preparedness — Sep 5, 2007

This research brief summarizes research that has identified the advantages and disadvantages of some approaches used to measure public health preparedness and suggested avenues for developing new preparedness tools.

Can Publicly Available Information Be Used in Planning Terrorist Attacks? — Aug 1, 2007

This fact sheet describes a framework for assessing the availability of publicly available information for planning attacks on the U.S. air, rail, and sea transportation infrastructure and the results of applying the framework in a red-team exercise.

Assessing Container Security: A Framework for Measuring Performance of the Global Supply Chain — Nov 25, 2005

Since 9/11, several programs have been implemented to improve security of the global supply chain. In reviewing these programs, this study concludes that supply-chain efficiency and security are distinct but interconnected and recommends considering ...

What Have We Learned About Establishing Internal Security in Nation-Building? — Nov 25, 2005

Comparing nine nation-building efforts in terms of how successful they were at establishing internal security, we found that, with two exceptions, most efforts were either unsuccessful or mixed. These findings were driven by differences in initial co...

Agroterrorism: What Is the Threat and What Can Be Done About It? — Jan 1, 2004

This research brief describes work documented in Hitting America’s Soft Underbelly: The Potential Threat of Deliberate Biological Attacks Against the U.S. Agricultural and Food Industry (MG-135-OSD).

Syndromic Surveillance: An Effective Tool for Detecting Bioterrorism? — Jan 1, 2004

To aid the early detection of bioterror events, public health officials and researchers have developed a new method called syndromic surveillance.

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