Interdependence Across the National Critical Functions February 6, 2023
Provides a novel interpretation of national critical functions to enhance their use for research by the risk analysis community.
Provides a novel interpretation of national critical functions to enhance their use for research by the risk analysis community.
Analysts leveraged available data on performance of uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) platforms and developed an approach to characterizing spray coverage as a function of payload, speed, endurance, and delivery. They present performance parameters of interest, whether the spraying goal is breadth or density of coverage. Their findings are reported here.
This study examines the factors predicting willingness to move among residents of southeast Louisiana.
This Perspective presents some proposed solutions, and potential data sources to evaluate policy solutions, to problems related to mis- and disinformation, election security, extremism, and immigration reform. The authors have synthesized workshop conversations and added citations from relevant research literature to provide scholarly context for the various policy facets they explored.
During a November 2022 webinar, Mark Ghilarducci, the Director of California Governor's Office of Emergency Services, reflected on his more than 30 years of experience in public safety and emergency management at the local, state, and federal levels. Director Ghilarducci discussed how California faced challenges from climate change, COVID-19, and other threats; lessons from these experiences; and his view of the future of emergency management.
Researchers identified approaches the U.S. Coast Guard could take to improve crew satisfaction with precommissioning assignments on offshore patrol cutters and overall fleet readiness. They evaluated the options using five criteria: crew satisfaction, crew preparation and knowledge retention, timeliness, feasibility, and cost.
This report summarizes the findings of Evergreen V, the most recent iteration of an ongoing scenario-based strategic foresight initiative that aims to help the U.S. Coast Guard identify issues, areas of opportunity, and potential challenges that it will likely face in the coming decades, so that senior leadership can better bridge the gap between near- and long-term planning and prepare the service to meet future demands.
This brief summarizes the findings of U.S. Coast Guard Project Evergreen V, part of a long-term strategic planning effort to identify emerging challenges and future trends that might alter demand for missions and the ability to perform them.
The U.S. Coast Guard is determining how many facilities handle certain dangerous cargoes and whether, according to a risk analysis, requiring those facilities to biometrically verify the Transportation Worker Identification Credential of every person accessing a secure area of such a facility would be cost-effective. This report answers those questions.
This article uses social network analysis to understand policymaking from a networked governance perspective. We examine one of the most significant refugee policy processes, the efforts to formulate and adopt the Global Compact on Refugees.
This brochure describes RAND's work, which directly supports decisionmakers in developing actionable planning and policy for disaster management and resilience.
Housed within the RAND Homeland Security Research Division, the Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center (HSOAC) supports federal, state, local, tribal, and public- and private-sector organizations that make up the homeland security enterprise.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has relied on scientific and technical advice to respond to various threats and hazards. To enhance DHS's ability to leverage science and technology communities to support the use of science, technology, innovation, and analytical capabilities during crisis response, RAND researchers offer a conceptual framework and five imperatives for consideration when providing technical support during a crisis.
To help the U.S. Department of Homeland Security plan and assess joint activities, researchers created a framework consisting of a decision aid incorporating factors to consider when forming joint programs and collaborations, a taxonomy of jointness types, a tool for selecting program types, and recommendations for structuring joint programs for success.
This research examines the coproduction of early warning systems linked with response capacities for floods and landslides through the case study of work in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, with a focus on nine urban informal settlements with high levels of territorial gang violence.
This report describes threat reporting models available to U.S. kindergarten through 12th-grade schools and how school leaders can support individual decisions to report threats effectively. Through literature review and stakeholder interviews, the authors identified ways to encourage reporting and the relevant challenges schools face.
This report presents results of a follow-up survey of Federal Emergency Management Agency employees on workplace harassment and discrimination, employee reporting experiences, and workplace climate. About one in five employees experienced at least one gender-based/sexual or race/ethnicity–based civil rights violation in the year preceding the survey, a substantial decline from 2019 levels.
This article proposes an urban governance framework for including environmental migrants in sustainable cities.
In this recording of a July 2022 virtual event, experts discuss the findings from the Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking Final Report, and recommendations to reduce lives lost to illicit synthetic opioids. The Commission was established under Section 7221 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 and was charged with examining aspects of the synthetic opioid threat to the United States.
Researchers assessed quantum computing vulnerabilities in the 55 national critical functions (NCFs) identified by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The researchers evaluated the significant issues affecting each NCF; rated it for urgency, scope, cost per organization, and other mitigating or exacerbating factors; then combined the ratings to rate each NCF's priority for assistance. This report documents their findings.
Diversity of U.S. election systems means that developing a national picture of cybersecurity risk is challenging; each state and jurisdiction needs to evaluate and prioritize risk in the systems it oversees. Researchers from the Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center have developed a methodology for understanding and prioritizing cybersecurity risk in election infrastructure to assist state and local election officials.
We explored how participatory techniques could overcome one disaster risk financing-related stalemate: the case of landslide insurance in a highly landslide-prone location, Sitka, Alaska.
The article examines technologies currently in use and emerging technologies with potential for use in the primary screening of carry-on baggage, checked baggage and air cargo.
Researchers have identified the software and businesses that provide critical information technology products and services and developed a framework to continue this analysis as technology evolves. Assessing software risk, business risk, and interdependencies among businesses, the authors recognize that highest revenue does not necessarily equal greatest risk.
Fifth-generation telecommunications technology (5G) offers a wide variety of potential applications from industrial automation to virtual reality to connected autonomous vehicles. In this Perspective, authors discuss the global state of play in several aspects of the 5G ecosystem as of June 2020, and raise several issues for policymakers to consider.