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Department of Defense (DoD) installations rely on the commercial electricity grid for 99 percent of their electricity needs, but extensive energy deli...
Risk and Liability
Policymakers have become increasingly concerned in recent years about the possibility of future maritime terrorist attacks. Though the historical occu...
A Review of Capacity and Performance Data
U.S. railroads have improved their productivity, but increasing freight volume threatens performance-degrading capacity constraints. This report descr...
U.S. and Canadian Perspectives
"This document synthesizes the discussions of a one-day workshop, "Increasing the Capacity of Freight Transport: Canadian and American Perspectives on...
The Department of Homeland Security is moving increasingly to risk analysis and risk-based resource allocation, a process that is designed to manage t...
The Department of Homeland Security is responsible for protecting the United States from terrorism. It does so partly through the Urban Areas Security...
Personal Protective Equipment Guidelines for Structural Collapse Events
This monograph serves as a technical source for National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) incident commander guidelines for emerge...
To determine whether the industrial base for the U.S. domestic coal-based electricity generation industry can maintain the capability to design, const...
Examines interventions in the healthcare system that use Electronic Medical Record Systems (EMR-S) to affect patient trajectories--i.e., the sequence ...
This report offers research and recommendations on ways to measure the overall efforts of the national border-security enterprise between ports of ent...
Implications for Pittsburgh
This report assesses the evidence that exists for the ways in which local air quality could influence local economic growth through health and workfor...
The ability to measure emergency preparedness is critical for policy analysis in homeland security. Yet it remains difficult to know how prepared a re...
Data and Methods Documentation
"The United States relies on a number of infrastructure systems--roads, the electric grid, ports, telecommunications networks, refineries, and the lik...
Capacities, Capabilities, and Sustainability Enablers for Biorisk Management and Biosurveillance
The Cooperative Biological Engagement Program (CBEP) is the biological threat component of the Cooperative Threat Reduction program. It grew out of ef...
In an effort to help develop federal guidelines for personal protective equipment used by emergency responders, this report summarizes data on injurie...
An Assessment of Four Promising Methods
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is responsible for controlling the flow of goods and people across the U.S. border, a difficult task that rai...
Assessing Stresses, Opportunities, and Resilience in the Transmission, Storage, and Distribution Systems for Oil and Refined-oil Products, Electricity, and Natural Gas
"The purpose of this analysis was to help the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis assess how energy transmission,...
Much worldwide cargo, from raw materials to finished products, travels via containerized shipping. For the shippers, the main concern has always been ...
A Landscape Assessment
Researchers conducted a comprehensive landscape assessment of the attack threat to soft targets and crowded places and corresponding security measures...
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Headquarters (DHS-HQ) is developing an Analytic Agenda that defines key actions that DHS-HQ organizations will ta...
Towards a Method for Improving the Quality of Public Participation in Environmental Policy
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"Communities, companies, and governments at all levels in the United States are making decisions that will influence where, what and how infrastructur...
Risk Assessment Methodology
Presents a risk assessment methodology that can be used to identify the greatest risks to homeland security and support prioritization of U.S. Departm...
This report documents logic models detailing elements of the Coast Guard's missions, examines existing metrics, and proposes potential metrics that co...
An Initial Assessment of Implementation by Federal Agencies
RAND researchers assessed federal agencies' implementation of the Infrastructure Resilience Guidelines, written by the Presidential Hurricane Sandy Re...
Evolving Terrorist Threats and the Continuing Challenges of Domestic Intelligence Collection and Information Sharing
This report summarizes the discussions at a seminar organized and hosted by the RAND Corporation at which a group of acting and former senior governme...
Congress enacted the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) in 2002, in response to terrorism insurance becoming unavailable or, when offered, extremely ...
Researchers evaluated the Federal Emergency Management Agency's terrorism risk formula, which considers threat, vulnerability, and consequences of ter...
This document distills and synthesizes the proceedings of a workshop in which experts in the field of regulatory analysis and terrorism risk examined ...