In WHO-convened Global Study of Origins of SARS-CoV-2: China Part released by the World Health Organization (WHO), SARS-CoV-2 surveillance data and virus cases reported in China are analyzed as far back as late 2019. Specifically, surveillance of morbidity due to pneumonia in and around Wuhan. Molecular sequence data suggests the...
The National Counterintelligence and Security Center of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has released Insider Threat Mitigation for U.S. Critical Infrastructure Entities: Guidelines from an Intelligence Perspective. This document highlights the importance of mitigating insider threats within U.S. critical infrastructure entities to meet the expanding nature of threats...
The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security has released National Priorities to Combat Misinformation and Disinformation for COVID-19 and Future Public Health Threats: A Call for a National Strategy. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a dangerous influence of health-related misinformation and disinformation. The abundance of access-enabling technology such as social...
The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Solutions Network has released the World Happiness Report 2021. While it is their ninth World Happiness Report, this piece is unlike any other due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic across the world. Using the Gallup World Poll as the foundation, this report examines...
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Justice released an unclassified joint threat assessment on the elevated threat of domestic violent extremists (DVE) this year. The report, Domestic Violent Extremism Poses Heightened Threat in 2021, states that a number of contributing factors...
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released their 2020 Internet Crime Report, which details a record number of 791,790 internet crime complaints that the department received in 2020. The report explains that the “IC3 aggregates related complaints to build referrals, which are forwarded to local, state, federal, and...
The National Intelligence Council, through the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, recently declassified its assessment on the role of foreign actors in the 2020 U.S. elections. Using a collection of intelligence reporting, the assessment outlines five key judgments in Foreign Threats to the 2020 US Federal Elections: Key...
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...
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2020 included the Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF), which gave immediate financial assistance to state and other local governments. The National Association of Counties (NACo) petitioned the National Academy of Public Administrators (NAPA) to conduct an independent review of...
The Association of the United States Army recently published The Role of Drones in Future Terrorist Attacks, which investigates the relationship between technological advancements and terrorism. More specifically, the paper focuses on how terrorists can use drones to benefit their cause by increasing the effectiveness of their operations. Drones have...
