Douglas C. Ligor

International Space Traffic Management

Charting a Course for Long-Term Sustainability

As outer space becomes more congested, contested, and competitive, risks to space safety, security, and sustainability heighten. The authors identifie...

Multiple Dilemmas

Challenges and Options for All-Domain Command and Control

The authors examine potential command-and-control impediments to multidomain operations and propose alternative models for joint all-domain command an...

Assessing the Readiness for Human Commercial Spaceflight Safety Regulations

Charting a Trajectory from Revolutionary to Routine Travel

RAND researchers assessed the progress that the commercial spaceflight industry has made in adopting voluntary safety standards and whether the indust...

The Role of Intellectual Property in U.S. Homeland Security

Researchers assessed intellectual property (IP) support at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its components and found underused oppor...

U.S. Department of Defense Disability Compensation Under a Fitness-For-Duty Evaluation Approach

The joint U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)-Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Integrated Disability Evaluation System is the process by which DoD det...

The Cost of Cost-Effectiveness

Expanding Equity in Federal Emergency Management Agency Hazard Mitigation Assistance Grants

Researchers offer ways the Federal Emergency Management Agency could simplify or amend the required benefit-cost analysis process in applications for ...

The Prisoner Dilemma

Policy Options to Address Circumstances of ISIS Prisoners in Northeastern Syria

RAND researchers hosted a subject-matter expert workshop to determine proposed courses of action to reduce security threats from and meet internationa...

Criminal History Record Information Sharing with the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

Education and Training Materials for State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Partners

This report presents materials to facilitate more effective and efficient criminal history record information sharing with the Defense Counterintellig...

ASSESSING THE READINESS FOR HUMAN COMMERCIAL SPACEFLIGHT SAFETY REGULATIONS

CHARTING A TRAJECTORY FROM REVOLUTIONARY TO ROUTINE TRAVEL. SUMMARY

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Language, Labels, and the DHS Lexicon

Analysis to Support a More-Inclusive Lexicon for Securing the Homeland

The authors analyze U.S. Department of Homeland Security documentation, processes, and procedures and then identify ways to improve them and to create...