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'The Future Could Be Brilliant': RAND's CEO Is an 'Apocaloptimist'

Aug 4, 2022

Jason Matheny, RAND's new president and CEO, explains why he's cautiously optimistic about the future of humanity, the importance of public service, and RAND's role in shaping policy solutions.
Commentary

Hack Post-Quantum Cryptography Now So That Bad Actors Don't Do It Later

Jul 28, 2022

The U.S. government should consider offering a public cash bounty to anyone who can crack the new forms of encryption that are being rolled out to defend against quantum computers. If a bounty helps catch a vulnerability before it's deployed, then the modest cost of the bounty could prevent much higher costs down the line.

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Securing U.S. Elections

Election systems across U.S. states and jurisdictions are diverse in terms of governance and technology. How can state and local officials effectively assess and prioritize cybersecurity risk in the systems they oversee?

Aug 16, 2022
Report

An Exploratory Examination of Agent-Based Modeling for the Study of Social Movements

The authors of this report explore the use of agent-based modeling as a method for studying the effects of information and communications technologies on the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of social movements over time.

Aug 16, 2022
Journal Article

Review of EPSRC-funded Doctoral Education: A Review of the Literature

This report presents the findings from a literature review on doctoral education in engineering and physical sciences conducted as part of a review of doctoral education currently being conducted by the EPSRC.

Aug 16, 2022
Journal Article

Impact of Telephone Triage on Access to Primary Care for People Living with Multiple Long-Term Health Conditions: Rapid Evaluation

We aimed to evaluate whether or not the increased use of telephone triage would affect access to primary care differently for people living with multimorbidity than for other patients.

Aug 12, 2022
Blog

Our New CEO, Algorithmic Bias, Equity in the Workplace: RAND Weekly Recap

This weekly recap focuses on what RAND’s new president and CEO envisions for the future, addressing bias in health care algorithms, creating equitable change in the workplace, and more.

Aug 5, 2022
Journal Article

Emerging Trends in Naval Mining Capabilities

Although mines using decades-old technology remain menacing, several broad technological trends are likely to enhance the threat from naval mines in the next few decades.

Aug 5, 2022
Commentary

Russia's Withdrawal from the ISS, Another Sign of Its Space Decline?

Russia's threatened exit from the International Space Station could simply be more bluster from Moscow at a time of heightened tension between Russia and the West over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But it also appears to be another signal that Russia's profile in space is in decline, a trend that is likely to continue and that the United States could be preparing for now.

Aug 4, 2022
Journal Article

The Imperative to Defend Minefields

Minefields can impede an adversary fleet's ability to sortie from port. But once laid, they must be defended to prevent sweeping operations.

Aug 3, 2022
News Release

Predicting Patients' Race and Ethnicity Can Improve Equity in Health Care Delivery

Algorithms designed to guide medical care can contribute to racially inequitable outcomes, but eliminating information about patient race and ethnicity as an input to algorithms is not the right way to address the issue.

Aug 1, 2022
Brochure

RAND Standards for High-Quality and Objective Research and Analysis

This brochure describes RAND's standards for high-quality and objective research.

Jul 25, 2022
Journal Article

Cyber Deterrence with Imperfect Attribution and Unverifiable Signaling

Examines a game of deterrence in which the defender can signal its retaliatory capability but can only imperfectly attribute an attack. We show that there are equilibria in which the defender sends noisy signals to increase its expected payoff.

Jul 25, 2022
Commentary

Why It Makes Sense to Keep Mine-Hunting Dolphins on the Navy's Payroll

Mine-hunting dolphins—none of whom have ever been harmed by a mine—make the seas safer for naval ships and other vessels. Yet budget cuts could spell the end of the program that trains them.

Jul 22, 2022
Blog

U.S. Labor Market, 988 Hotline, Firearm Homicides: RAND Weekly Recap

This weekly recap focuses on the U.S. economy’s uneven pandemic recovery, a new national mental health hotline, firearm homicides, and more.

Jul 22, 2022
Journal Article

Technologies for Primary Screening in Aviation Security

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.

Jul 21, 2022
Journal Article

Assessing the Implementation of Digital Innovations in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic to Address Key Public Health Functions: Scoping Review of Academic and Nonacademic Literature

In this study, scoping reviews of academic and nonacademic literature were undertaken to obtain an overview of the evidence regarding digital innovations implemented to address key public health functions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jul 21, 2022
Journal Article

Digital Facilitation to Support Patient Access to Web-Based Primary Care Services: Scoping Literature Review

This study aimed to identify, characterize, and differentiate between different approaches to digital facilitation in primary care, establish what is known about the effectiveness of different approaches, and understand the enablers of digital facilitation.

Jul 19, 2022
Report

Systematic Method for Prioritizing Investments in Game-Changing Technologies: The Evaluation and Comparison Process Framework

This report summarizes a framework and process to characterize and compare potential game-changing technologies based on likely operational advantage, given specific technological capabilities, challenges of implementation and cost.

Jul 18, 2022
Report

Supporting the Royal Australian Navy's Campaign Plan for Robotics and Autonomous Systems: Human-Machine Teaming and the Future Workforce

The authors provide an overview of the various impacts of robotics, autonomous systems, and artificial intelligence (RAS-AI) on the Defence workforce to inform the Royal Australian Navy's ongoing efforts to facilitate RAS-AI integration.

Jul 18, 2022

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