Homeland Security Research Division

The United States Needs a Moonshot to Prevent Extremism from Metastasizing

Extremism is like cancer: It will always exist, but ignoring it runs the risk that it rears its ugly head, metastasizing throughout the country. The United States needs to ensure it has the proper tools to diagnose extremism in its earliest stages, and that the agencies tasked with protecting our democracy have the capability to get it into, and keep it in, remission.

Enter Outer Space at Your Own Risk?

Since 2004, federal law has barred most participant safety regulations and leaves nearly all issues of safety up to the discretion of the company providing the service. It's time to allow the moratorium on regulation to expire and allow the development of safety standards, led by the FAA.

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Labor Trafficking in the United States

Reducing the prevalence of human trafficking is a national priority. In this report, researchers recommend a research agenda for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that would inform decisionmakers and assist operational partners in mitigating the crimes of labor trafficking and human trafficking more broadly.

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Community and Individual Disaster Resilience for Floods: Options for Improving Protective Action Guidance

Drawing on a review of academic and grey literature, RAND researchers used a conceptual framework, which was operationalized to review Federal Emergency Management Agency flood protective action guidance. This study resulted in key findings and related recommendations that should help FEMA improve its flood communication strategy and messaging.