Category: On the Homefront – the HSDL Blog
The Climate and Security Advisory Group (CSAG), a group of senior military, national security, and intelligence leaders chaired by the Center for Climate and Security (CCS) and Elliott School of International Affairs, has released a report that assesses the progress that the Biden Administration has made towards achieving climate security. This...
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released the GAO 2022-2027 Strategic Plan: Goals and Objectives for Serving Congress and the Nation. Published every four years, this report guides the agency’s efforts to help legislators oversee federal operations and address the most important national issues facing our society and government....
RAND Corporation has released Individual Differences in Resistance to Truth Decay: Exploring the Role of Reasoning and Cognitive Biases, a report stemming from RAND’s Initiative, “Countering Truth Decay.” The term “Truth Decay” is defined as, a societal phenomenon indicated by four key sociocultural trends: heightened disagreement about facts and analytical interpretations...
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its annual report for 2021. Their 2021 Internet Crime Report outlines information related to the 847,376 complaints of suspected cybercrime, with reported losses at $6.9 billion, that they received throughout the year. According to IC3 data, phishing scams, non-payment/non-delivery scams, and...
Over the years, hundreds of studies have been conducted related to the causes and consequences of school violence. In a new report released by the National Institute of Justice, the authors systematically review research performed on school violence, and provide a comprehensive look of what is known on the subject....
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...
New In Focus now available on Disaster Workforce Resilience. A collection of resources that focuses on building an inclusive emergency management workforce to better serve diverse communities. This list includes strategic plans and guides to aid in the recruitment and retention of women and people of color in federal, state, and...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has recently released a report of their Internal Review of Domestic Violent Extremism within DHS. Using the definition provided from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s report on Domestic Violent Extremism Poses Heightened Threat in 2021, a domestic violent extremist is defined...
Trust for America’s Health has released its latest report in an annual series on public health emergency preparedness in America: Ready or Not 2022: Protecting the Public’s Health from Diseases, Disasters and Bioterrorism. The report assesses and tracks the public health preparedness of all 50 states and the District of...
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has just released their Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community for 2022. This annual report focuses on the worldwide threats to U.S. national security for the upcoming year, and specifically “provides the Intelligence Community’s (IC’s) baseline assessments of the most...