Anu Narayanan

Overview

Commentary

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  Thinking Outside the Grid: Q&A with Anu Narayanan

  Anu Narayanan, an engineer at RAND, is a specialist in what-ifs. Her research focuses on critical infrastructure and national security. In this interview, she discusses her latest work that explores what would happen if a cyberattacker tried to take down the power grid.

  Mar 5, 2020

Publications

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  Deterring Attacks Against the Power Grid: Two Approaches for the U.S. Department of Defense

  The Defense Department increasingly relies on electric power to accomplish critical missions. This report explores two approaches for deterring attacks against the U.S. power grid: deterrence by denial and deterrence by cost imposition.

  Jan 6, 2020

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  Valuing Air Force Electric Power Resilience: A Framework for Mission-Level Investment Prioritization

  This report addresses the U.S. Air Force's need for a systematic way to value the risk to missions associated with electric power--related disruptions and accordingly set priorities among investments in power resilience.

  Jun 3, 2019

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  Air Force Installation Energy Assurance: An Assessment Framework

  This report presents a framework that mission owners and civil engineers at Air Force installations can use to assess their level of energy assurance.

  Nov 6, 2017

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  Articulating the Effects of Infrastructure Resourcing on Air Force Missions: Competing Approaches to Inform the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System

  Describes and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of several analytic approaches for linking infrastructure resources to readiness and for articulating the effect of infrastructure underfunding in the Air Force Program Objective Memorandum process.

  Apr 17, 2017

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  A Modeling Framework for Optimizing F-35A Strategic Basing Decisions to Meet Training Requirements

  This report presents a modeling framework designed to identify basing locations for the F-35A fleet and training range locations that minimize flying costs associated with composite force training exercises for combat mission-ready pilots.

  Dec 14, 2016

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  Scenario Development for the 2015 Quadrennial Energy Review: Assessing Stresses, Opportunities, and Resilience in the Transmission, Storage, and Distribution Systems for Oil and Refined-Oil Products, Electricity, and Natural Gas

  RAND researchers developed a framework and metrics for examining vulnerabilities, opportunities, and risks to U.S. energy transmission, storage, and distribution systems through 2030 under a range of uncertainties.

  Sep 27, 2016

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  Characterizing National Exposures to Infrastructure from Natural Disasters: Data and Methods Documentation

  This report serves as the technical documentation and reference document for the data, methods, and analytic approach used in the analysis of national exposures to infrastructure from natural disasters.

  Jul 12, 2016

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  Current and Future Exposure of Infrastructure in the United States to Natural Hazards

  This report describes insights about exposures from natural hazards now and in the future, as well as gaps in data that, if filled, could improve the nation's ability to assess infrastructure risk and improve infrastructure resilience.

  Jul 12, 2016

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  Policy Options for Better Service Outcomes from the Future Electric Grid: A Stakeholder Symposium

  This symposium's goal was to identify important policy questions related to the present and future electric power grid system. This convening aimed to identify problem areas that could benefit from stakeholder-driven objective research.

  Apr 18, 2016

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  Improvements to Air Force Strategic Basing Decisions

  Examines the Air Force's basing decisionmaking process and assesses the quality of the underlying data.

  Apr 15, 2016

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  The Adoption of New Smart-Grid Technologies: Incentives, Outcomes, and Opportunities

  RAND Corporation researchers examine empirical evidence related to smart-grid development, discuss some entrepreneurial opportunities associated with smart-grid data, and offer policy suggestions for overcoming barriers.

  Jan 15, 2015

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  Journal Article

  Sustaining Critical Social Services During Extended Regional Power Blackouts

  This article outlines and estimates the incremental cost of a strategy that uses small distributed generation, distribution automation, and smart meters to keep a set of critical social services operational during a prolonged power outage that lasts for days or weeks and extends over hundreds of kilometers.

  Jul 1, 2012