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The Right Technology Can Help Refugees Stay Connected

Mar 11, 2020

Nearly 71 million people globally are displaced by conflict and persecution. There have been some real advances in technology to help them, but innovations have often been fragmented, without a larger vision. A more strategic approach to technology could better serve their needs.
Report

How to Analyze the Cyber Threat from Drones

Mar 5, 2020

Unmanned aerial systems—drones—have become more common, more readily available, and more sophisticated. And they have new capabilities, such as increased data collection and autonomous behavior. Their cybersecurity implications demand a coherent strategy.

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Online Doesn't Have to Mean Impersonal

Children's needs extend beyond the purely academic. It is important that their social and emotional well-being is supported as instruction moves online. A whole-child view of what students need could benefit them now more than ever.

Apr 2, 2020
Commentary

The COVID-19 Crisis Has Sparked Innovation and Offers Lessons We Must Not Forget

COVID-19 has shocked the world and caught most countries unprepared, forcing them to improvise how best to protect the health of their populations. But amid all the confusion and fear, the power of individuals, organizations, and communities to think differently and to innovate shows what can be achieved when people are united by common, clear priorities and necessity.

Apr 1, 2020
Journal Article

Journal Article

The Experiences of Persons Living with Dementia Planning for a Dementia Research Meeting: Lessons Learned From the National Research Summit on Care, Services, and Supports for Persons With Dementia and Their Caregivers

A stakeholder group of individuals living with dementia made valuable contributions to a research summit on the disease.

Apr 1, 2020
Journal Article

Journal Article

Response to COVID-19 in Taiwan: Big Data Analytics, New Technology, and Proactive Testing

Taiwan learned from the SARS outbreak in 2003. Its response to COVID-19 holds lessons for other countries battling the new virus.

Apr 1, 2020
Journal Article

Journal Article

Contributions of Persons Living With Dementia to Scientific Research Meetings: Results From the National Research Summit on Care, Services, and Supports for Persons With Dementia and Their Caregivers

A stakeholder group of persons living with dementia influenced the agenda and outcomes of a national research summit on care, services, and supports for persons living with the disease.

Apr 1, 2020
Commentary

Catholic Church and Tech Companies Join to Call for Transparency in AI

The Catholic Church joined with technology companies in February to release the “Rome Call for AI Ethics,” which it hopes will lend meaning if not governance frameworks for the use of artificial intelligence. Making sure that “everyone can benefit” from AI by making its discoveries widely available will be important. This is perhaps where the church can be most effective.

Mar 31, 2020
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Report

Software Acquisition Workforce Initiative for the Department of Defense: Initial Competency Development and Preparation for Validation

To support U.S. Department of Defense goals to improve software acquisition, the authors develop a competency model, review training and education courses, and present options for tracking and managing the software acquisition workforce.

Mar 31, 2020
Report

The Defense Industrial Base Needs a Cyber Protection Program

The unclassified networks of defense industrial base firms have become a target for adversaries seeking to steal sensitive data, trade secrets, and intellectual property. How can the U.S. Department of Defense better secure these networks?

Mar 30, 2020
Report

Report

Measuring Cybersecurity and Cyber Resiliency

This report presents a framework for the development of metrics -- and a method for scoring them -- that indicates how well a U.S. Air Force mission or system is expected to perform in a cyber-contested environment.

Mar 26, 2020
Report

Report

Optimizing the Contributions of Air Force Civilian STEM Workforce

RAND researchers reviewed existing academic and professional literature to gain insights into how organizations such as the Air Force should manage, support, and organize their civilian STEM workforce to best leverage talent and maximize performance.

Mar 23, 2020
Tool

Tool

Chesapeake Bay Watershed Climate Impacts Summary and Outlook: Winter 2019-2020

This web-based tool aims to inform Chesapeake Bay Watershed policymakers, practitioners, and community leaders on Winter 2019-2020 climate, as well as projected future climate trends. An interactive tool shows percentage change in freeze-thaw days.

Mar 23, 2020
Blog

Experts Discuss COVID-19: RAND Weekly Recap

This weekly recap focuses on COVID-19, how the United States is responding to the coronavirus outbreak, the spread of misinformation during this time, and more.

Mar 20, 2020
Report

Report

Neurological Effects of Repeated Exposure to Military Occupational Levels of Blast: A Review of Scientific Literature

There is increasing concern over the common, repetitive forms of blast to which military members are exposed during service, and how those exposures could affect the central nervous system. The authors of this report review the relevant literature.

Mar 18, 2020
Q&A

Truth Decay in the Coronavirus Moment: Q&A with Jennifer Kavanagh

Jennifer Kavanagh, who wrote the RAND book Truth Decay about the diminishing role that facts play in making important public policy decisions, calls the unfolding situation with the novel coronavirus and COVID-19 a worst-case scenario.

Mar 17, 2020
Commentary

Coronavirus, Telemedicine, and Dustbusters

Telemedicine has been with us for decades. And yet it hasn't transformed health care in the way that ATMs have transformed banking or cordless vacuums have transformed household cleaning. But the coronavirus pandemic could forever change how telemedicine is used.

Mar 16, 2020
Commentary

Coronavirus Forces Colleges Online. Will Learning Ever Be the Same?

Colleges and universities have turned to online courses to help slow the spread of COVID-19. But distance learning may also hold promise as a long-term strategy to help make higher education more accessible and affordable.

Mar 16, 2020
Report

Detecting Malign or Subversive Information Efforts over Social Media

The United States has a capability gap in detecting malign or subversive information campaigns in time to respond before they influence large audiences. A novel method can now detect these efforts.

Mar 16, 2020
Report

A Separate Space: Creating a Military Service for Space

As the United States creates the Space Force as a service within the Department of the Air Force, RAND assessed which units to bring into the Space Force, analyzed career field sustainability and drew lessons from other defense organizations.

Mar 13, 2020
Research Brief

How to Build an Effective, Efficient, and Independent Space Force

To increase its likelihood of developing into a successful organization, the new U.S. Space Force should define and clarify its space warfighting missions. And most space activities in the Department of Defense should be moved into the new service.

Mar 13, 2020
News Release

News Release

New Space Force Will Need Resources, Clear Definition of Warfighting Mission

To meet the goals of the U.S. Space Force most space activities in the Department of Defense should be moved into the new service. Moreover, it will be critical that the Space Force clearly define and clarify its space warfighting mission.

Mar 13, 2020

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