New In Focus now available on Biodefense. A collection of resources that focuses on mitigating the effects of biological hazards by strengthening biodefense policy. This list includes national biodefense and health security strategies, recommendations for public health preparedness and response, and after-action reports on the response to COVID-19. Please Note: An HSDL account...
The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) maintains a collection of the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), which collects and analyzes data from the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on epidemiology and public health. Each issue of the MMWR is packed with raw and analyzed public health data and...
Space Operations Command’s (SpOC) 2022 Strategic Plan outlines their goals and objectives as they continue to improve their warfighting posture. The Strategic Plan identifies the following 6 Lines of Effort (LOE) and their supporting objectives: 1: Advance SpOC-wide Preparations for Protect & Defend and Contested Operations Advance preparedness for contested...
The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed the lives of nearly one million Americans, and has created economic losses of more than $16 trillion. Despite many challenges, a safe and effective vaccine was developed in less than a year and new treatments and diagnostics have been created. Although science and technology have...
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of State released the latest 2021 edition of the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, which documents the status of human rights and worker rights in 198 countries and territories around the world. The reports paint a clear picture of where human rights and democracy are under threat. They...
Cybersecurity becomes increasingly challenging as criminal tactics evolve and adapt. American companies are at the forefront as they race to strengthen network security in response to cyber threats. In 2021 the United States experienced the most ransomware threats at 421.5 million— a sharp increase from 2020. To assist companies in...
In 2019, amid rising concerns of school active shooter and mass shooting incidents, Congress directed the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to produce a report on the role of police in schools and recommendations on how they can better serve the needs of students. In response to this directive, “NIJ...
The RAND Corporation has released Assessing Risk to the National Critical Functions as a Result of Climate Change, a report developed by the Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center (HSOAC) for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). This report outlines the implications of climate change on National Critical Functions (NCFs)...
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has launched a website with the purpose of tracking global disinformation campaigns on social media. ASPI’s recent report- Understanding Global Disinformation and Information Operations: Insights from ASPI’s New Analytic Website provides a brief analysis of the data provided. The website described within presents a...
The Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) recently published the report – The Role of Violent Conspiratorial Narratives in Violent and Non-Violent Extreme Right Manifestos Online, 2015-2020. While there now exists an academic consensus stressing the importance of extremist words that sharply delineate, reify and polarise in‑ and out‑group...
