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Benefits and Barriers: Using and Sharing Geospatial Information in the Department of Defense

This research brief summarizes the benefits of and barriers to sharing geospatial data among both private and government organizations and discusses a three-step methodology used to assess the outcomes and benefits of sharing.

Sep 10, 2007
Report

Using and Sharing Geospatial Information in the Department of Defense

The sharing of geospatial information provides the DoD both opportunities and challenges. Benefits include improved effectiveness resulting in better outcomes and efficiency in the form of reduced costs. Challenges include concern over security issues and technical difficulties in sharing information.

Aug 19, 2007
Report

Space Command Sustainment Review: Improving the Balance Between Current and Future Capabilities

Space assets are vital to the economic, social, and military interests of the United States. Sustainment complexities suggest a need to define a AFSPC commandwide sustainment philosophy separating demand, supply, and integrator processes.

Jun 17, 2007
Dissertation

Navigating the Information Revolution: Choices for Laggard Countries

Develops a road map that points the way for policymakers in countries that lag behind in the information revolution and discusses specific tools for understanding what drives that revolution.

Feb 20, 2007
Research Brief

Can Internet TV have frontiers? RAND Europe informs the European Commission's TVWF impact assessment

This brief summarizes the results of RAND Europe research, requested by the European Commission (EC) to inform the EC's assessment of options for revising and extending the existing 'TV Without Frontiers' (TVWF) Directive.

Jan 12, 2007
Report

Assessing Indirect Impacts of the EC Proposals for Video Regulation

This study concludes that the EC's proposed Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMS), which extends television broadcast regulation to Internet Protocol delivery, does not offer firms sufficient regulatory certainty.

Sep 12, 2006
Report

Handbook of Legal Procedures of Computer and Network Misuse in EU Countries

A comprehensive and up-to-date collection of information on rules, regulations and laws concerning computer misuse in all 25 European Union (EU) countries.

Mar 24, 2006
Report

Matching Up to the Information Society: An Evaluation of the EU, the EU Accession Countries, Switzerland and the United States

Presents the current understanding of the advancement of the Information Society (IS) within the EU and countries up for accession in 2004, based on the SIBIS surveys.

Feb 21, 2006
Journal Article

All in Due Time: The Development of Trust in Computer-Mediated and Face-To-Face Teams

This study examines the development of trust and cooperation in computer-mediated and face-to-face teams.

Jan 1, 2006
News Release

RAND Study Says Communities Can Learn Lessons from Worker Exposure to Anthrax in Washington

RAND Study Says Communities Can Learn Lessons from Worker Exposure to Anthrax in Washington

Feb 22, 2005
Journal Article

Carbon Monoxide Emissions from Passenger Vehicles: Predictive Mapping with an Application to Hamilton, Canada

Integrated urban models are designed to simulate land-use and transportation interactions and to allow predicts of traffic volume and vehicle emissions at the link level of the urban transport network.

Jan 1, 2005
Journal Article

In Their Own Words: Lessons Learned from Those Exposed to Anthrax

The authors evaluated perceptions of workers at the US Postal Service Brentwood Processing and Distribution Center and US Senate employees regarding public health responses to the anthrax mailings of October 2001.

Jan 1, 2005
Report

Future Army Bandwidth Needs and Capabilities

How can the Army design its future communications network to meet competing demands at a time of rapidly changing user needs and technologies?

Aug 15, 2004
Report

Mapping the Risks: Assessing the Homeland Security Implications of Publicly Available Geospatial Information

Assesses the homeland security implications of publicly available geospatial data and information.

May 2, 2004
Research Brief

America's Publicly Available Geospatial Information: Does It Pose a Homeland Security Risk?

In the wake of the September 11 attacks, some U.S. federal agencies curtailed public access to various sources of geospatial information. While recognizing many public and private benefits of such information, officials were concerned that terrorists...

Jan 1, 2004
Journal Article

Critical Infrastructures Will Remain Vulnerable: Neighbourhoods Must Fend for Themselves

Critical infrastructures in the US will remain vulnerable to a variety of attacks, both physical and cyber, into the foreseeable future.

Jan 1, 2004
Commentary

The Nation: Terrorists' Talk

Published commentary by RAND staff.

Feb 16, 2003
Report

TEN Telecom Guidelines Status Review

Assesses the future needs and prospects for the Trans-European Network Telecom Action and develops a vision by which to revise its guidelines.

Jan 1, 2003
Report

Enabling the Information Society by Stimulating the Creation of a Broadband Environment in Europe: Analyses of Evolution Scenarios for Future Networking Technologies and Networks in Europe

Analyzes of the development of electronic networks in Europe and North America and their technical, economic and political drivers.

Jan 1, 2003
Report

The Dynamics of Growth in Worldwide Satellite Communications Capacity

The dynamics of growth in worldwide satellite communications capacity over the past two decades is closely related to general economic growth.

Jan 1, 2003

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