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Investigation of the New Orleans Police Department
"The NOPD [New Orleans Police Department] has long been a troubled agency. Basic elements of effective policing - clear policies, training, accountability, and confidence of the citizenry - have been absent for years. Far too often, officers show a lack of respect for the civil rights and dignity of the people of New Orleans. While the majority of the force is hardworking and committed to public safety, too many officers of every rank either do not understand or choose to ignore the boundaries of constitutional policing. Some argue that, given the difficulty of police work, officers must at times police harshly and bend the rules when a community is confronted with seemingly intransigent high levels of crime. [...] NOPD's failure to ensure that its officers routinely respect the Constitution and the rule of law undermines trust within the very communities whose cooperation the Department most needs to enforce the law and prevent crime. As systematic violations of civil rights erode public confidence, policing becomes more difficult, less safe, and less effective, and crime increases. [...] The problems in NOPD developed over a long period of time and will take time to address and correct. The Department must develop and implement new policies and protocols, train its officers in effective and constitutional policing, and institutionalize systems to ensure accountability, foster police-community partnerships, improve the quality of policing to all parts of the City, and eliminate unlawful bias from all levels of NOPD policing decisions. Recommendations on achieving these changes are attached to this Report. We look forward to working with NOPD and the City of New Orleans to address the violations of constitutional and federal law that we identified, by developing and implementing a comprehensive blueprint for sustainable reform that will: (1) reduce crime; (2) ensure respect for the Constitution and the rule of law; and (3) restore public confidence in NOPD."
United States. Department of Justice. Civil Rights Division
2011-03-16
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National Flood Insurance Program Claims Manual
From the Purpose: "The purpose of the NFIP [National Flood Insurance Program] Claims Manual is to improve clarity of claims guidance to WYOs [Write Your Own insurance companies], vendors, adjusters, and examiners so that policyholders experience consistency and reliability of service. The manual provides processes for handling claims from the notice of loss to final payment."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency; National Flood Insurance Program (U.S.)
2019-06-01
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Incident Management Plan for the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon/Tri-Met
"The primary goal of the Plan is to provide a comprehensive approach for managing emergencies and events, including prevention/mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. The Plan addresses emergencies due to criminal activity, earthquake, fire, flooding, hazardous materials spills, medical emergency, severe weather. telecommunications or computer system failures, terrorism, transportation accidents, utility outages, volcanic activity, or other emergency situations occurring within the transit system and its related buildings."
United States. Federal Transit Administration
1999
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Freedom of Information Act Guide, March 2007
"The March 2007 edition of the FOIA Guide is now available electronically on the Department of Justice's FOIA Web site. The Freedom of Information Act Guide is an overview discussion of the FOIA's exemptions, its law enforcement record exclusions, and its most important procedural aspects. Prepared by the staff of the Office of Information and Privacy, it is updated and revised biennially. The March 2007 edition of the FOIA Guide contains a newly updated and revised discussion of the procedural requirements of the FOIA, the contours of the FOIA's nine exemptions and three exclusions, as well as the considerations applicable to FOIA litigation. This latest edition of the FOIA Guide also contains an overview of Executive Order 13392, entitled 'Improving Agency Disclosure of Information.' This Executive Order was signed by the President on December 14, 2005, and calls upon all agencies to improve their FOIA operations by ensuring that they are both results-oriented and produce results."
United States. Department of Justice
2007-03
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USAF Ability to Survive and Operate Procedures in a Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical (NBC) Environment, Volume 4
This handbook implements AFPD 32-40, Disaster Preparedness, and AFMAN 32-4005, Personnel Protection and Attack Actions. AFH 32-4014, Volume 4, provides key information, procedures, and actions needed to prepare for, survive, and restore mission capability after, a nuclear, biological, chemical, or conventional attack. The primary emphasis, however, is the CB environment. This handbook is designed for all USAF personnel stationed in, or deployable to a CB high threat area. Information on planning and analysis, CB hazards, and CB defense equipment can be found in Volumes 1, 2, and 3 respectively.
United States. Department of the Air Force
Poulis, Andrew
1998-03-01
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Assessment of the USAF Aircraft Accident Investigation Board (AIB) Report on the F-22A Mishap of November 16, 2010
"Our objective was to review the United States Air Force (USAF) Aircraft Accident Investigation Board (AIB) report on the F-22A mishap of November 16, 2010, for adherence to the procedures set forth in Air Force Instruction (AFI) 51-503, 'Aerospace Accident Investigations.' We assessed whether the AIB's conclusions were supported by facts consistent with the standards of proof established by AFI 51-503. [...] We recommend that the Judge Advocate General of the Air Force reevaluate the AIB report and take
appropriate action in light of the findings in this report regarding the AIB report Statement of Opinion and other deficiencies."
United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Inspector General
2013-02-06
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Developing an Internal Communications Plan for Strathcona County Emergency Services
"The problem was Strathcona County Emergency Services (SCES) did not have an effective internal communications strategy. The purpose of the research was to develop a comprehensive and effective internal communications plan for SCES. Action research answered the following questions: (a) Why is effective internal communications important for an organization, (b) what are the components of a comprehensive and effective internal communications plan, (c) what internal communications strategies and methods have been utilized by other organizations, (d) what is the current state of internal communications within SCES,and (e) what internal communications strategies and methods would be effective for SCES? A literature review utilized resources from academic, communications, and emergency services sources. Procedures included an internal communications survey of SCES staff, an internal communications survey of representatives of other emergency services organizations, and an SCES focus group to review the draft internal communications plan developed through the research."
National Fire Academy
Reid, Darrell B.
2012-03?
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Organizational Analysis of the United States Army Evaluation Center
"This study of the U.S. Army Evaluation Center (AEC) used an organizational systems
framework to analyze factors related to strategy structure, processes and results
experienced at AEC during fiscal year 2013. The researcher's experience, coupled with
existing survey data collected from established questionnaires, interviews and
authoritative information sources, was used to analyze AEC as a system.
The Organizational Systems Framework [OSF] model used for this Joint Applied Project
served as an excellent diagnostic tool to identify improvements to increase efficiency and
effectiveness. Organization system analysis using the OSF model was successful in
providing a baseline and key information required to design AEC for the future. It is
recommended that AEC continue using the OSF to identify future improvements; focus
on the factors that are within AEC's control to change (i.e., throughput factors) and focus
on the factors with the greatest improvement potential. The organizational analysis
showed that AEC achieves a 'fairly strong' level of congruence between the inputs,
throughputs and results. However, there are two areas where congruency among the
factors is assessed as 'weak,' and 19 areas where congruency among the factors is
assessed as 'average.' Recommendations to improve organizational performance were
provided as a result of the analysis.
Although this research was successful in analyzing AEC as a system, many of the
findings, recommendations, and conclusions drawn in this paper warrant dedicated and
more in-depth quantitative analysis or consideration from different perspectives."
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Murter, Elizabeth C.
2014-12
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Serial No. 113-48: Examining Drug Compounding, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, First Session, May 23, 2013
This is the May 23, 2013 hearing on "Examining Drug Compounding," held before the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health. From the opening statement of Joseph R. Pitts: "The purpose of today's hearing is to hear from FDA and healthcare experts regarding the history and importance of drug compounding to patients and the current regulation of compounding on the Federal and State levels. As we are all aware, in the summer and fall of 2012 a Massachusetts company, the New England Compounding Center, NECC, shipped over 17,000 vials of an injectable steroid solution from 3 contaminated lots to healthcare facilities across the country. After receiving injections of NECC's contaminated steroid, over 50 people died from complications associated with fungal meningitis; further, almost 700 others were stricken with meningitis or other persistent fungal infections. The outbreak ranks as one of the worst public health crises associated with contaminated drugs in the history of the United States. This committee began an investigation into the matter." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Gabrielle Cosel, Scott Gottlieb, Joseph H. Harmison, Gerry Migliaccio, Elizabeth Scott (Scotti) Russell and Janet Woodcock.
United States. Government Printing Office
2014
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Bringing Order to Chaos: Historical Case Studies of Combined Arms Maneuver in Large-Scale Combat Operations
From the Foreword: "To emphasize the importance of the Army's continued preparation for large-scale combat operations, the US Army Combined Arms Center has published these volumes of 'The US Army Large-Scale Combat Operations Series book set'. The intent is to expand the knowledge and understanding of the contemporary issues the US Army faces by tapping our organizational memory to illuminate the future. The reader should reflect on these case studies to analyze each situation, identify the doctrines at play, evaluate leaders' actions, and determine what differentiated success from failure. Use them as a mechanism for discussion, debate, and intellectual examination of lessons of the past and their application to today's doctrine, organization, and training to best prepare the Army for large-scale combat."
Army University Press (U.S.)
Schifferle, Peter J.
2018
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Manufacturers of FEMA Trailers and Elevated Formaldehyde Levels, Hearing Before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, Second Session, July 9, 2008
From the opening statement of Henry A. Waxman: "Today the committee is holding its second hearing on formaldehyde in FEMA trailers. A year ago the committee examined how FEMA responded to reports that the families living in Government trailers were being exposed to hazardous levels of formaldehyde. Our hearing revealed that the FEMA staff out in the field said that they needed to test these trailers so the dangerous levels of formaldehyde would not adversely affect the families living in these trailers, but FEMA, itself, in Washington refused to do that. One FEMA lawyer directed: 'Do not initiate any testing. Once you get results and should they indicate some problem, the clock is running on our duty to respond'. Well, what we learned at that hearing outraged Americans all across the country. FEMA had a duty to protect families living in its trailers and it failed them. I expect today's hearing will also generate a sense of outrage. The largest supplier of FEMA trailers by far was a manufacturer named Gulf Stream. In the weeks after Hurricane Katrina struck, Gulf Stream received contracts from FEMA worth more than $500 million to supply over 50,000 trailers for displaced residents of the Gulf Coast. FEMA failed by ignoring the dangers of formaldehyde and resisted testing. Gulf Stream's problem is different." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Michael McGeehin, Jim Shea, Ronald J. Fenech, Peter Liegl, Dan Burton, Tom Davis, Bill Sali, Mark E. Souder, Diane E. Watson, and Henry A. Waxman.
United States. Government Printing Office
2009
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Recommended Security Guidelines for Airport Planning, Design and Construction [Revised June 2001]
This document presents recommendations for incorporating sound security considerations into the planning, design, construction, and modification of airport terminal buildings and other security-related airport facilities. It consolidates information developed through the participation of Federal Aviation Administration, government, and aviation industry professionals, and incorporates a wealth of knowledge. This knowledge was gained through the recent experiences of a broad range of aviation security programs and projects at numerous United States airports, and through the continuing efforts of government and industry to develop improved approaches to incorporating cost-effective security features into the early planning and design of airport facilities. The information is presented here in a single document, which may be revised and updated periodically as regulations, security requirements, and technology change.
United States. Federal Aviation Administration
2001-06
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Risk Management Series: Design Guide for Improving Critical Facility Safety from Flooding and High Winds
This manual concentrates on critical facilities (hospitals, schools, fire and police stations, and emergency operation centers). It is based on the behavior of critical facilities during Hurricane Katrina and makes recommendations on the performance of these types of buildings. It provides building professionals and decision-makers with information and guidelines for implementing a variety of mitigation measures to reduce the vulnerability to damage and disruption of operations during severe flooding and high-wind events. It includes extensive information on the impact of storm surges to the Gulf Area.
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2007-01
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National Flood Insurance Program Flood Insurance Manual [Revised May 2013]
"The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) was established by the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968. The Act was in response to Congress finding that: [1] Flooding disasters required unforeseen disaster relief and placed an increased burden on the nation's resources. [2] The installation of flood preventive and protective measures and other public programs designed to reduce losses caused by flood damage had not been sufficient to adequately protect against the growing exposure to flood losses as a matter of national policy. A reasonable method of slowing the risk of flood losses would be through a program of flood insurance that could complement and encourage preventive and protective measures. [3] Many factors made it uneconomical for private insurance industry carriers to make flood insurance available to those in need of such protection on reasonable terms and conditions. [4] A program of flood insurance with large-scale participation of the Federal Government and the maximum extent practicable by the private industry was feasible and could be initiated."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2013-05
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Warrior Ethos and Soldier Combat Skills
"Modern combat is chaotic, intense, and shockingly destructive. In your first battle, you will experience the confusing and often terrifying sights, sounds, smells, and dangers of the battlefield--but you must learn to survive and win despite them. [1.] You could face a fierce and relentless enemy. [2.] You could be surrounded by destruction and death. [3.] Your leaders and fellow soldiers may shout urgent commands and warnings. [4.] Rounds might impact near you. [5.] The air could be filled with the smell of explosives and propellant. [6.] You might hear the screams of a wounded comrade. However, even in all this confusion and fear, remember that you are not alone. You are part of a well-trained team, backed by the most powerful combined arms force, and the most modern technology in the world. You must keep faith with your fellow Soldiers, remember your training, and do your duty to the best of your ability. If you do, and you uphold your Warrior Ethos, you can win and return home with honor. This is the Soldier's TC. It tells the Soldier how to perform the combat skills needed to survive on the battlefield. All Soldiers, across all branches and components, must learn these basic skills. Noncommissioned officers (NCOs) must ensure that their Soldiers receive training on--and know--these vital combat skills."
United States. Department of the Army
2013-08-13
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DoD Ammunition and Explosives Safety Standards [July 1999]
This Standard is issued under the authority of DoD Directive 6055.9, "DoD Explosives Safety Board (DDESB), and DoD Component Explosives Safety Responsibilities," July 29, 1996. It establishes uniform safety standards applicable to ammunition and explosives, to associated personnel and property, and to unrelated personnel and property exposed to the potential damaging effects of an accident involving ammunition and explosives during their development, manufacturing, testing, transportation, handling, storage, maintenance, demilitarization, and disposal
United States. Department of Defense
1999-07
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Trafficking in Persons in the United States
"This research used case studies to identify points of intervention at each stage of the trafficking process. We looked for points where law enforcement, civil society, business, and the public could take action. We sought to identify actions that would lead to: more successful prevention of trafficking; the discovery, liberation, improved care and rehabilitation of victims; and, especially, ways to increase prosecutions that will shut down trafficking operations. By addressing these points of intervention we believe the United States can become a much harder target for criminal traffickers - a place where the risks of discovery are greater and the consequences more swift and decisive. For each case, we examined the roles of various actors in the trafficking process: law enforcement, immigration services, the criminal justice system and judiciary, social services, the victim's legal representation, collaboration between all these agencies, and demand factors and industry of exploitation."
United States. Department of Justice
2005-11
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Khobar Towers Tragedy and Response
"For some Americans, the catastrophic events of September 11, 2001 may have overshadowed the Khobar Towers bombing of June 25, l996.Yet as horrific as the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center were, the bombing in Dhahran-terrible in its own right-should still command our attention. There is no distinguishing of the importance among these, or any other terrorist events, to those who lost their loved ones in them. That the Khobar Towers tragedy was followed by ones even larger in scale does not diminish its importance: it furthers it. The 'Bleeding Kansas' of the 1850s prefigured a far bloodier Civil War in the 1860s, and the blasted facade of Building 131 anticipated the yet more deadly terrorism of the twenty-first century. This history is based largely on tape-recorded oral history interviews conducted by the author and held by the Air Force Historical Studies Office, on Bolling Air Force Base, Washington, D.C. Other historians contributed a few more of these sessions and those sources are identified in the endnotes and backmatter. Where I conducted the interview, the endnotes describe it as an interview 'with' the participant; where another historian asked all or most of the questions, the notes call it an interview 'of' the participant. In the endnotes which have shortened citations, the use of one of these prepositions or the other tells the reader whether the interview cited was conducted by the author or another historian. In every case, the AFHSO [Air Force Historical Studies Office] holds copies of these taped interviews. Many of the interviewees offered painfully vivid accounts of the Khobar Towers bombing and its aftermath. Their stark honesty made it difficult to quote some parts of their interviews. I tried to describe accurately the horrors of a terrorist attack and at the same time to respect the feelings of those who survived the bombing that night and of the families of those who did not."
Air Force History and Museums Program (U.S.)
Jamieson, Perry D.
2008
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Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General: Effectiveness of the Department of Homeland Security Traveler Redress Inquiry Program (REDACTED)
The Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) states the following in regards to this "Redacted" report: "The Department of Homeland Security's Traveler Redress Inquiry Program is a multiagency effort designed to provide fair and timely redress, or remedy, to travelers who have difficulties with federal government screening and border crossing processes. We evaluated the program's effectiveness in response to a request from U.S. Representative Bennie G. Thompson, Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security. Our objectives were to determine whether the Traveler Redress Inquiry Program is (1) collecting, processing, and safeguarding information as intended; (2) processing responses to individual requests in a timely manner; and (3) accelerating the refinement and correction of erroneous screening information, and contributing to screening process improvements. […] In response to our report, the Department of Homeland Security has proposed plans and taken action that, once fully implemented, will reduce a number of the deficiencies we identified. Although the department concurred with most of our recommendations, a number of its proposed plans focus on solutions that will take more than a year to develop, rather than near-term corrective actions consistent with the pressing nature of the underlying issues. The department concurred with 20 recommendations, concurred in part with 1 recommendation, and did not concur with 3 recommendations."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2009-09
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Fireline Handbook
This document is a handbook for firefighters covering a variety of topics ranging from logistics to operations to firefighter safety.
National Wildfire Coordinating Group (U.S.)
2004-03
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Disaster Contracts Quarterly Report: Fourth Quarter, Fiscal Year 2016 (Fiscal Year 2016 Report to Congress)
"This document responds to the language set forth in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Appropriations Act (P.L. 109-295) and the Joint Explanatory Statement that accompanies the same Act. P.L. 109-295), Section 691 (d) of title VI states: At the end of each fiscal quarter, beginning with the first fiscal quarter occurring at least 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit a report on each disaster assistance contract entered into by the Agency by other than competitive procedures to the appropriate committees of Congress. The Joint Explanatory Statement that accompanies P.L. 109-295 (Conference Report 109-699) states: FEMA shall provide a quarterly report to the Committees on Appropriations regarding all contracts issued during any disaster. The report shall include a detailed justification for any contract entered into using procedures based upon the unusual and compelling urgency exception to competitive procedures requirements under section 303(c)(2) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (41 U.S.C. 253(c)(2) or section 2304(c)(2) of title 10, United States Code. Justification details by individual contract are to include, at least: the amount of funds, the timeframe, the contractor, a specific reason why the contract could not be competed and how action may be taken to ensure competition of the contract in the future without impeding timely disaster response."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
2016-11-21
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Serial No. 106-15: E-Commerce: the Benefits and Pitfalls of Conducting Business over the Internet: Hearing before the Committee on Small Business, U.S. House of Representatives One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, May 26, 1999
From the opening statement of Christopher Shays: "Earlier today we heard testimony in closed session from those familiar with very specific and very sensitive aspects of the threats posed by terrorists to U.S. citizens and property at home and abroad. That information provided some depth and clarity to the subcommittee's ongoing oversight of government wide terrorism issues. But terrorism also has a very public face. Using fear and panic as weapons, terrorists seek to amplify and transform crimes against humanity into acts of war. The growing and changing threat of terrorism requires an ongoing public discussion of the appropriate strategy, priorities and resources to protect public health and national security. That discussion brings us here this afternoon. As this point in the evolution of our post cold war response to the new realities of a dangerous world, we should have a dynamic, integrated assessment of the threat posed by foreign and domestic-origin terrorism. We should have a truly national strategy to counter the threat. And to implement that strategy, we should have a clear set of priorities to guide Federal programs and funding decisions." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Daniel O. Hill, Harris N. Miller, Andrew B. Whinston, Alan W. Anderson, and Brian Hanson.
United States. Government Printing Office
1999
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Ground Dog Day: Lessons Don't Have to be Relearned in the Use of Dogs in Combat
"Currently, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan involve the US fighting insurgents. The nature of the fight in highly populated areas negates traditional American strengths in technology and mechanization. One of the potential tools in this fight is the expanded use of military working dogs (MWD), also called war dogs or K-9s. The increased use of dogs on the battlefield has the potential to save lives. The problem is that this lesson seems to have to be relearned with every prolonged conflict the US enters. The delay by the military leadership recognizing dogs utility on the battlefield has historically cost US servicemen's lives. The purpose of this thesis is to determine whether lessons that have been learned could be applied to the current MWD program to enhance the effectiveness of using dogs in combat. The intent is not to convince the reader that every lesson or particular conclusion or recommendation presented is the final solution to creating a perfect MWD program. The aim, instead, is to offer a spectrum of options or alternative methods that may be of use to those involved in MWD programs and to suggest areas for further research and exploration."
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Hammerstrom, Michael L.
2005-12
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Improving Protection Against Viral Aerosols Through Development of Novel Decontamination Methods and Characterization of Viral Aerosol
From the Thesis Abstract: "Although respirators and filers are designed to prevent the spread of pathogenic aerosols, a stockpile shortage is anticipated during the next flu pandemic. Contact transfer and reaerosolization are also concerns. An option to address these potential problems is to decontaminate used respirators/filters for reuse. In this research a droplet/aerosol loading chamber was built and used in decontamination testing to proved a fair comparison of the performance of different decontamination techniques, including antimicrobial chemical agents, microwave irradiation and ultraviolet (UV) irradiation, which were incorporated into filtration systems and tested. The inactivation efficacy of dialdehyde cellulose and starch filters s biocidal filters was investigated. In sufficiently humid conditions both media showed higher removal efficiency and better disinfection capability at lower pressure drop than conventional media."
Air Force Research Laboratory (Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida). Materials and Manufacturing Directorate
Woo, Myung-Huei
2012-04-16
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Disaster Assistance: FEMA Should Take Additional Actions to Strengthen Fraud Risk Management for Public Assistance Emergency Work Grants, Report to Congressional Requesters
From the Highlights: "FEMA has obligated over $10 billion in PA [Public Assistance] grants for emergency work to applicants in the three states and two territories recovering from hurricanes and wildfires in 2017. FEMA faces challenges balancing the need to quickly deliver disaster funds while minimizing the risk of fraud-- challenges increased by the size and scope of the 2017 disasters and the complexity of the PA grant program. Fraud schemes have included false documentation for debris removal. GAO [Government Accountability Office] was asked to review a range of disaster response and recovery issues following the 2017 disaster season. This report addresses the extent to which (1) FEMA's efforts to assess fraud risks to PA emergency work grants align with leading practices, and (2) FEMA helps ensure PA applicants are able to meet their responsibilities for managing fraud risks. GAO assessed FEMA's procedures against leading practices in the Fraud Risk Framework."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2020-09
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Interrogation: A Review of the Science: High- Value Detainee Interrogation Group
From the "Scope of the Report" section of the document: "The objective of this report is to provide a systematic review and evidence synthesis of the science related to interrogation. It is not intended as a manual or practitioners' guide. The emerging science of interrogation relies on a variety of relevant disciplines and fields of study for its theoretical and scientific foundations, many of which have provided decades of data. For instance, research on interrogations in the criminal justice system has been steadily accumulating for decades, providing data on topics such as effective and ineffective interrogation and interview methods, the conditions under which victim, witness, and suspect memories are most vulnerable, valid cues to deception, and the conditions under which individuals confess to crimes they did not commit. During the same period, there has been an emergence and growth of science on negotiation and social influence, persuasion, resistance, priming and embodied cognition, and cognitive-based cues to deception. To the extent that this research is relevant to an interrogation, it is included in this report. This report provides a comprehensive review of HIG-funded [High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group] research and other science relevant to interrogations: assessing cooperation and countering resistance (Chapter 1), influencing tactics (Chapter 2), interview methods (Chapter 3), and detecting truth and deception (Chapter 4). Based on the comprehensive research and field validation studies detailed in this report, it is concluded that the most effective practices for eliciting accurate information and actionable intelligence are non-coercive, rapportbased, information-gathering interviewing and interrogation methods."
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
2016-09
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FDA User Fee Agreements: Improving Medical Product Regulation and Innovation for Patients, Part Il, Hearing of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, First Session, Examining FDA User Fee Agreements, Focusing on Improving Medical Product Regulations and Innovation for Patients, April 4, 2017
This is the April 4, 2017 hearing on "FDA User Fee Agreements: Improving Medical Product Regulation and Innovation for Patients," held before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, United States Senate. From the opening statement of Lamar Alexander: "This is our second hearing on reauthorization of the Food and Drug Administration medical device and drug user fees. FDA is the agency responsible for making sure that patients benefit from the promising research driven by the 21st Century Cures Act, which this committee worked on last year in a bipartisan way, and which Majority Leader Senator McConnell called the most important piece of legislation last year. Two weeks ago, this committee heard from experts at the FDA who told us that a timely reauthorization of these user fee agreements is integral to helping patients and continuing implementation of the 21st Century Cures Act. I asked the witnesses at the last hearing what will happen if we do not reauthorize by the end of July, 20 days before the authority to collect user fees expires, and here is what they said. Dr. Janet Woodcock, head of FDA's drug center, agreed that cancer drugs would be delayed and said that patients developing resistance to existing cancer drugs might soon not have innovative ones approved soon enough to help them." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Kay Holcombe, David R. Gaugh, Scott Whitaker, and Cynthia Bens.
United States. Government Publishing Office
2018
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Exposure to Death, Disasters, and Bodies
"This is the fourth of a series of six volumes addressing the various psychological and behavioral factors of performance and medical care delivery in a chemical and biological warfare (CBW) environment. This volume addresses the unique stress of exposure to death and disaster both for individuals and for a community. In December 1985, the U.S. Army suffered its largest peacetime loss when a chartered plane carrying 248 soldiers crashed in Gander, Newfoundland. This tragedy resulted in 248 soldiers killed, all of whom were from one Army Post, Fort Campbell, Kentucky. This was one-third of a force which had been deployed to the Sinai Desert in a multi-national peacekeeping effort. The impact of this disaster upon the soldiers, unit and community at Fort Campbell, and the impact to the body recovery and body identification process at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, are the focus of this volume. Such research is conducted to obtain answers which will assist in establishing programs that will be in place and be available when disaster, tragedy, or CBW strike."
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Department of Psychiatry
Ursano, Robert J., 1947-
1988-06
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Understanding the Fundamental Principles Underlying the Survival and Efficient Recovery of Multi-Scale Techno-Social Networks Following a WMD Event (a)
"Motivation: Understanding the fundamental principles underlying the functional robustness of Techno-Social Networks (TSN-s) is a tall, but inevitable challenge. As the society becomes increasingly dependent on infrastructure transport networks, the implications of large-scale disruptions (e.g., due to WMD events) of these systems also become increasingly important. In our ever more connected and interdependent world, small perturbations can have far reaching effects. Large-scale events, such as cascading failures (e.g., the East coast blackout on Aug. 14, 2003) or epidemics (SARS [Severe acute respiratory syndrome] and most recently Ebola) are typical to complex networks, and they serve as warnings about the type of behaviors one can expect in strongly interconnected systems. As a result, we demand ever-increasing predictive power and ability to evaluate the impact of potential failures. There has been, however, little to no mathematical and analytical methodology that would allow a realistic assessment of the consequences of large-scale failures in critical infrastructure TSN-s, largely due to two major aspects of these networks: i) Multivariate and heterogeneous constraints. Real-world TSNs typically operate under a wide range of constraints and limitations imposed both from the technical (physical) side and the social (usage) side. Physical constraints include geographical embeddedness; energy limitations (transportation costs, battery life); device capacity, latency and bandwidth, while usage constraints include software limitations, communication protocols and regulations. To advance empirical applications, network models will need to address these constraints since they strongly influence the response and failure modes of a network in case of WMDs. The dynamics of constrained complex networks, especially if they are directed, weighted and hierarchical are not well understood. The adaptive capabilities, including recovery of TSNs facing major destructive events has been a relatively uncharted territory"
United States. Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Toroczkai, Z. (Zoltan); Vespignani, Alessandro, 1965-
2016-07
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SDI: Technology, Survivability, and Software
It puts Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) technologies in context by reporting the kinds of ballistic missile defense (BMD) system architectures that the SDI organization has considered for "phased deployment." It reviews the status of the various SDI technologies and system components. It analyzes the feasibility of producing dependable software of the complexity that advanced BMD systems would require. Finally, it summarizes what is now known-and unknown-about the probable survivability of such systems against concerted enemy attacks of various kinds. The study found that major uncertainties remain concerning the probable cost, effectiveness, and survivability of the kinds of BMD system (which rely on kinetic rather than directed-energy weapons) that might be deployable in the "phase-one' proposed for the mid to late 1990s. In addition, OTA believes several more years of SDI research would be needed to determine whether it is feasible to construct the kinds of directed-energy weapons contemplated as follow-ons to SDIO's "phase one" BMD system. The survivability of both short-term and longer-term BMD systems would depend heavily on the outcome of a continuing competition in weapons and countermeasures between the United States and the Soviet Union. Finally, developing dependable software for advanced BMD will be a formidable challenge because of the difficulty of testing that software realistically.
United States. Government Printing Office
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
1988-05
