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The growing cruise and ballistic missile threat to U.S. Air Force bases in Europe has led to a reassessment of defensive options, including ground-based systems currently assigned to the Army. The gap between this threat and the U.S. capacity and capability to counter the threat is particularly worrisome. This report offers alternative courses of action for Air Force consideration and assesses strengths and weaknesses of each.

In this report, the authors propose a heuristic with two dimensions-consent status and comparison type-to determine levels of privacy and accuracy in face recognition technologies. They also identify privacy and bias concerns.

The authors consider how policy environments affect school districts' attempts to scale and sustain quality summer programs. This report, the sixth in a series, is intended to help program leaders navigate local, state, and federal policy contexts.

The sale of illicit goods provides an important funding source for terrorist organizations, organized crime, and rogue states. The authors of this report use open-source data to examine these networks and guide future policy to disrupt the trade.

The U.S. Air Force (USAF) today stands at a crossroads over its launch acquisition strategy. In this report, authors analyze the heavy lift launch market to help the USAF gain clearer insight into the number of U.S. launch service providers that the global heavy lift launch market can support and the impact of near-term decisions on the USAF''s ability to (1) meet NSS launch demand using U.S. providers and (2) sustain two or more U.S. providers.

Because U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) rotary-wing aircraft are nearing their ends of life, the USCG is reassessing its airpower needs for its current missions and future operational requirements. Researchers assessed what airpower mixes could help the USCG execute its missions across the entire geographic domain for operations in the next 30 years. In this report, they document their findings and make recommendations.

The U.S. Coast Guard's Evergreen strategic foresight initiative works to identify emerging service challenges that require focus in the near term. This report describes an approach to developing future scenarios to aid in that process.

This report, the second edition of an earlier work, synthesizes the available scientific evidence for the effects of various firearm policies on firearm deaths, violent crime, the gun industry, defensive gun use, and other outcomes.

The authors examine how Russia assesses and applies the correlation of forces and means--the military balance between two opponents at the global, regional, and local levels--and outline recent relevant developments in Russian military thought.

The authors developed recommendations to improve existing formal requirements and technological solutions regarding naval surface fire support, a way for the U.S. Navy to provide the equivalent of artillery support for forces operating ashore.

To identify strategies and make recommendations on improving the allocation and execution of Army installation facility sustainment funding, the authors compare Army practices with those in the other Services and in the public and private sectors.

The author analyzes first-term attrition, using administrative data for all accessions across four military service branches in fiscal years 2002 through 2013 to show what characteristics predict attrition across the first 36 months of service.

This report offers insights into effects of surveillance technology on border outcomes. The underlying research demonstrated the promise and limits of quasi-experimental statistical methods for evaluating the impact of border-enforcement measures.

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This report describes a way for the U.S. Department of Defense to better secure unclassified networks holding defense information--through the establishment of a cybersecurity program designed to strengthen the protections of these networks.

National defense policies have focused on the importance of multinational interoperability to meeting U.S. defense goals. By recounting their literature review and interviews, the authors describe potential benefits of interoperability.

The authors examine the extent and nature of Chinese investments in Israeli technology and infrastructure and discusses the security implications these pose for Israel and the United States.

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.

The authors examine scalable analytic means to detect malign or subversive information efforts. The report has operational relevance to the U.S. government and may also benefit other researchers and social media companies dealing with malign actors.

The report presents a rigorous retrospective analysis of the costs and benefits of LifeSet, a Youth Villages program that provides case management and other services for young adults, ages 17 to 22, aging out of the foster care system. The analysis examines the resources required to implement LifeSet-and therefore program costs-and the economic value of the effects of the program, based on a prior impact evaluation conducted in Tennessee.

In response to the rapid spread of disinformation online and as part of the RAND Corporation''s Truth Decay initiative, RAND researchers worked to identify and characterize the universe of web-based tools targeted at online disinformation, focusing on those tools created by nonprofit or civil society organizations. This report serves as a companion to the already published web database, describing the methodology and the types of tools included.

Social media can enhance situational awareness in response operations, but using social media this way poses challenges. Researchers sought to contribute to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) mission to ensure resilience to disasters by helping DHS understand whether and how social media might be better leveraged for such situational awareness. The primary focus of this research was on U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) response operations.

Through interviews, workshops, and structured analysis on the causes of potential conflict, the authors of this report outline new conventional arms control (CAC) measures to lower the risk of conflict in Europe. The existing CAC regime is outdated and largely irrelevant to today''s security environment. The authors provide a menu of options for a new CAC regime that could address the regional security challenges of the 21st century.

The U.S. Navy''s aviation maintenance capability suffers from supportability issues because of its antiquated software architecture and codebase. This report presents the results of an analysis of alternatives for fielding the Naval Aviation Maintenance System, which is intended to help modernize the Navy''s afloat and ashore maintenance capabilities. The authors find that the Navy should migrate to a commercial off-the-shelf solution.

To support U.S. Department of Homeland Security efforts to prioritize capability investments, this report examines trends in small unmanned aerial system development, the features that are likely to aid nefarious users, and how such actors could use an sUAS (or multiple systems) to conduct various types of operations-from surveilling U.S. government facilities to dispersing a chemical agent at a large public event.

Tracing the evolution of the U.S. Army throughout American history, the authors of this four-volume series show that there is no such thing as a "traditional" U.S. military policy. Rather, the laws that authorize, empower, and govern the U.S. armed forces emerged from long-standing debates and a series of legislative compromises between 1903 and 1940. Volume III covers the period from 1940 to 1970 and the development of Total Force Policy.