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Emergency managers are making purchasing decisions in a crowded technology marketplace with limited time, technical capacity, and standardized information. A landscape assessment identifies AI-enabled products that are available to support emergency management work and what it takes to adopt them.
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Aug 25, 2026
This report describes an attempt to identify and map a body of emergency management research to support the National Disaster and Emergency Management University.
Aug 4, 2026
Jun 4, 2026
Testimony presented before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on East Asia and Pacific on June 4, 2026.
Mar 23, 2026
RAND researchers assessed the portfolio of waterways safety risk assessment tools used by the U.S. Coast Guard, focusing on how they can be used in a systematic and coordinated way that improves the efficiency, coordination, and integration of existing tools.
The U.S. Coast Guard has long used tools for waterway safety risk assessment, but their effectiveness, overlaps, gaps, and adaptation to changing waterway use have never been reviewed. The report recommends redesigning and unifying the tools to create a stronger, more coordinated system.
Jan 23, 2026
Fire chiefs and private-sector leaders discuss how wildfire technology innovations can move from idea to field use, and how technology can improve wildfire management and resilience.
Jan 2, 2026
Promising new technologies have potential to reduce losses from wildfires, but fragmentation in the wildfire management system is a barrier to widespread adoption.
Dec 29, 2025
This working paper examines how schools can sustain and strengthen behavioral threat assessment and management programs through data-driven evaluation, training, and integration with broader student support systems to enhance school safety.
This working paper identifies strategies to improve the management component of school behavioral threat assessment and management efforts, focusing on intervention planning, data use, and monitoring to manage risk and strengthen school safety.
This working paper details the research methods used in five working papers focused on understanding how U.S. schools implement behavioral threat assessment and management programs as part of school safety efforts.
This working paper identifies practices for building effective multidisciplinary behavioral threat assessment and management teams in K–12 schools, highlighting strategies to strengthen collaboration and training for sustained violence prevention.
This working paper examines how K–12 schools can design and sustain effective reporting systems within behavioral threat assessment and management programs to identify safety concerns early, improve response, and strengthen violence prevention.
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Emergency managers are making purchasing decisions in a crowded technology marketplace with limited time, technical capacity, and standardized information. A landscape assessment identifies AI-enabled products that are available to support emergency management work and what it takes to adopt them.
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