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The authors examine how allied planning, programming, budgeting, and execution-like mechanisms enable or hinder collaboration across the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization amid...

The authors examined retention of racial-ethnic minorities in the Regular Army's enlisted and officer ranks and how racial-ethnic composition changes as soldiers progress in their careers. The...

The authors offer a framework for how the U.S. Department of Defense might conduct a strategic readiness assessment and apply it to two defense policy issues: munitions procurement and planning...

This report presents some of the challenges that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) may face in fielding an artificial intelligence technology called reinforcement learning--which expands the...

Researchers describe six case studies of nondeclared disasters in diverse community contexts, considering innovations that support recovery in underserved communities and metrics for assessing...

In this report, the author presents an evaluation of the effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine from February 2022 to August 2023 on Russian military manpower and the potential future...

Private-sector companies are applying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to diverse business functions, including human resource management (HRM), to great effect. The Department...

In this report, part of RAND's Gun Policy in America initiative, researchers seek objective information about what scientific literature reveals about the likely effects of various gun laws. In the...

The increasing availability and decreasing cost of custom synthetic nucleic acids presents risk of misuse. The authors provide recommendations to implement comprehensive screening and secure...

In this study, RAND researchers examined the current role of security cooperation efforts as a tool in the emerging strategic competition among the United States, Russia, and China. In particular,...

Improvements in Russian and Chinese counterspace capabilities could endanger the space-based capabilities that the United States relies on for a broad array of military and economic functions. In...

This report develops a new concept for strategic disruption by special operations forces, exploring how disruptive campaigns can frustrate an adversary's preferred strategy and enable friendly gains...

This report examines climate adaptation strategies for National Critical Functions at risk of disruption from climate change, focusing on strategies that owner-operators of critical functions might...

The aim of this study of U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Centers of Excellence (COEs) is to develop recommendations for enhancing the structure, function, and long-term management of...

The United States, according to official U.S. national security statements and an avalanche of commentary since about 2016, is engaged in a long-term strategic rivalry with China and a lesser ? but...

Many states implemented automatic voter registration, removed excuse requirements for absentee ballots, and expanded early voting windows ahead of the 2020 election. This report examines the effects...

This document presents the updated, second edition ruleset for the Information Warfighter Exercise Wargame, which is used by the Marine Corps to provide training on information capabilities and...

Russia's manipulation of Ukraine, which culminated in the 2022 invasion, demonstrated that Russia was willing to resort to all means necessary to secure a regional sphere of influence that included...

The Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) is designed to enhance security at U.S. ports. It demonstrates that the holder has passed a Transportation Security Administration security...

This report is part of a larger RAND Corporation study on the societal foundations of national competitiveness. The authors surveyed Chinese and Russian thinking about the qualities of nations that...

The authors explore the challenge of renewing competitive dynamism in the face of national decline by nominating key qualities that determine a society's competitiveness and analyzing historical...

The authors of this report use data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to describe health care access and health outcomes for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other...

Aircrew flight equipment (AFE) personnel inspect, repair, maintain, pack, and adjust aircrew flight equipment, which is vital to the safety of the aircrews. In response to U.S. Air Force concerns...

The authors identify ways to improve the U.S. Space Force's (USSF's) capability requirements development to help USSF achieve its core mission in the face of rapidly developing adversary capabilities...

Twenty years after the first marriage licenses were issued to same-sex couples in Massachusetts, this report provides an evidence review and new analyses of the effects of granting legal status to...

Leading artificial intelligence (AI) developers and researchers, as well as government officials and policymakers, are investigating the harms that advanced AI systems might cause. In this report,...

Russia's war against Ukraine shocked the world both in terms of its naked aggression and brutality. Aside from the hostilities themselves, Russian aggression has sparked conversations about a similar...

In this report, researchers update and extend an earlier study to document the views of employers of reserve component (RC) members and reevaluate Department of Defense (DoD) policy, federal...

The authors assess school leaders' awareness and perception of Department of Defense youth programs, the ways such programs build connections with communities, and the extent to which these programs...

Rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) for game-playing has inspired intense interest in the possible benefits of the technology for wargames. This report presents an assessment of the limits...