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Format: 1 online resource (68 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-282-94052-X , 9786612940521 , 0-8330-5077-X

Series Statement: Technical report ; TR-837-DHS

Content: This report offers research and recommendations on ways to measure the overall efforts of the national border-security enterprise between ports of entry. Focusing on three missions--illegal drug control, counterterrorism, and illegal migration--this report recommends ways to measure performance of U.S. border-security efforts in terms of interdiction, deterrence, and exploiting networked intelligence.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE - Introduction; CHAPTER TWO - General Missions, Focus Missions, and Criteria for Measuring Effectiveness; 2.1 Understanding Related DHS Missions and Operations; 2.1.1 The Breadth of Enduring Missions; 2.1.2 Focus Missions; 2.2 Framing Border Security within a System of Solutions to National Missions; 2.3 Measuring Contributions to Border Security; CHAPTER THREE - A Conceptual Model of Border Security as a Foundation for Measurement , 3.1 Defining Border Security as Controlling Illegal Flows3.2 Core Functions of Border-Security Activities; 3.2.1 Interdiction; 3.2.2 Deterrence; 3.2.3 Networked Intelligence; 3.3 Identifying Measures for Border-Security Functions; CHAPTER FOUR - Contributions of Border Security to Drug Control, Counterterrorism, and Illegal Migration; 4.1 Border-Security Contributions to Drug Control; 4.1.1 National Drug Control Policy and Capabilities; 4.1.2 Contributions of Interdiction, Deterrence, and Networked Intelligence to Drug Control , 4.1.3 Non-DHS Agencies and Factors on Which Border-Security Outcomes Depend4.2 Border-Security Contributions to Counterterrorism; 4.2.1 National Counterterrorism Policy and Capabilities; 4.2.2 Contributions of Border Interdiction, Deterrence, and Networked Intelligence; 4.2.3 Non-DHS Factors on Which Border-Security Outcomes Depend; 4.3 Border-Security Contributions to Preventing Illegal Migration; 4.3.1 National Immigration Policy and Capabilities; 4.3.2 Contributions of Border Interdiction, Deterrence, and Networked Intelligence , 4.3.3 Non-DHS Factors on Which Border-Security Outcomes DependCHAPTER FIVE - Recommended Measures for Controlling Drugs, Immigration, and Border Crossing by Terrorists; 5.1 Measures for Interdicting Flow; 5.1.1 Interdiction Measurement Issues; 5.1.2 Measurement Cases; 5.2 Measures for Deterring Flow; 5.3 Measures for Exploiting Networked Intelligence; 5.4 The Inadequacy of Capstone Measures for Evaluating Border Security; CHAPTER SIX - Implementing Steps to Measure Border Security; 6.1 Developing Models of Border Interdiction to Support Planning , 6.2 Identifying and Exploiting Opportunities to Estimate Attempted Illegal Crossings6.3 Translating Studies of Adversary Decisionmaking into Doctrine for Deterrence; 6.4 Identifying Best Practices for Exploiting Networked Intelligence; 6.5 Evaluating Border-Security Efforts Using a Layered Portfolio View; 6.5.1 Suitability of the Proposed Border-Control Measures; 6.5.2 Showing Relationships Between Border Security and Other Capabilities; Back Cover , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8330-4977-1

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (65 p.)

ISBN: 1-282-03320-4 , 9786612033209 , 0-8330-4635-7

Series Statement: Technical report ; TR-603-UPSF

Content: U.S. railroads have improved their productivity, but increasing freight. volume threatens to cause performance-degrading capacity constraints. This. report describes the current state of railroad capacity and performance for. freight transportation.

Note: "Supported by the UPS Foundation." , Cover; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter One - Introduction; Freight Transportation: An Engine for Economic Growth; The Pressures of Increased Demand for Transportation; Concerns About Rail Infrastructure; The Public Costs of Private Logistics Decisions; Content of This Report; Chapter Two - Capacity; Capacity: Industry Structure; Capacity: Infrastructure; Capacity: Motive Power; Capacity: Operating Strategies; Capacity: Crews; Capacity Summary; Chapter Three - Performance; Average Speed; Reliability; Prices; Productivity; Resilience , Chapter Four - Observations and RecommendationsReferences , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8330-4505-9

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (61 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 0-8330-7913-1

Content: Department of Defense (DoD) installations rely on the commercial electricity grid for 99 percent of their electricity needs, but the U.S. electricity grid is vulnerable to disruption from natural hazards and actor-induced outages, such as physical or cyber attacks. Using portfolio analysis methods for assessing capability options, this paper presents a framework to evaluate choices among energy security strategies for DoD installations.

Note: "RAND Homeland Security and Defense Center." , "RR-162-RC"--Page [4] of cover. , Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE: Introduction; Background; Outline of This Report; CHAPTER TWO: Using Joint Capability Areas to Inform Installation Energy Security Decisions; Defining Joint Capability Areas for Homeland Security and Emergency Response; Illustrative DoD Capabilities for Energy Security; CHAPTER THREE: Developing a Capabilities-Based Approach for Evaluating Energy Security Decisions; Characterizing the Broad Range of Future Challenges , Identifying Investment Building Blocks for Candidate OptionsAssessing Effectiveness with a Capabilities-Based Portfolio Analysis; Evaluating Outputs and Improving Inputs; CHAPTER FOUR: Conclusions; APPENDIX: Relevant Joint Capability Areas Served by Installation Energy Services; Bibliography

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8330-7910-7

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (93 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 0-8330-4093-6

Series Statement: Rand Corporation monograph series

Content: This monograph provides a practical definition of terrorism risk, presents a method of estimating it, and demonstrates a framework for evaluating this method. Results support conclusions on how to improve risk-based resource allocation.

Note: "MG-388-RC"--P. [4] of cover. , The RAND Center for Terrorism Risk Management Policy; Center for Terrorism Risk Management AdvisoryBoard; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Glossary; CHAPTER ONE- Introduction; Risk Assessment Versus Resource Allocation; Scope and Limitations; Overview of This Monograph; CHAPTER TWO- Terrorism Risk and Its Components; Threat; Vulnerability; Consequences; Risk as a Function of Threat, Vulnerability, andConsequences; CHAPTER THREE- Accounting for Uncertainty and Values in Terrorism Risk Assessment , Uncertainties in the Estimation of Threat, Vulnerability,and ConsequencesReflecting Values in Terrorism Risk Management; Implications of Uncertainty and Values for Managing Terrorism Risk; CHAPTER FOUR- Two Approaches to Estimating Terrorism Risk in Urban Areas; Simple Risk Indicators: Population-Based Metrics; Event-Based Models: The RMS Terrorism Risk Model; Comparison of Population, Density-Weighted Population,and the Aggregated Estimate of Urban Area Risk Shares; CHAPTER FIVE- Evaluating the Performance of Different Estimates of Terrorism Risk; The Performance of Terrorism Risk Estimates , CHAPTER SIX- Conclusions and RecommendationsDefining Terrorism Risk; Reflecting Uncertainty in Terrorism Risk Assessment; Simple Versus Event-Based Risk Estimates; Recommendations; APPENDIX- Supporting Figures and Table; Bibliography

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8330-3834-6

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (226 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-282-94038-4 , 9786612940385 , 0-8330-5014-1

Series Statement: RAND Corporation monograph series

Content: The ability to measure emergency preparedness - to predict the likely performance of emergency response systems in future events - is critical for policy analysis in homeland security. Yet it remains difficult to know how prepared a response system is to deal with large-scale incidents, whether it be a natural disaster, terrorist attack, or industrial or transportation accident. This research draws on the fields of systems analysis and engineering to apply the concept of system reliability to the evaluation of emergency response systems. The authors describe a method for modeling an emergency response system; identifying how individual parts of the system might fail; and assessing the likelihood of each failure and the severity of its effects on the overall response effort. The authors walk the reader through two applications of this method: a simplified example in which responders must deliver medical treatment to a certain number of people in a specified time window, and a more complex scenario involving the release of chlorine gas. The authors also describe an exploratory analysis in which they parsed a set of after-action reports describing real-world incidents, to demonstrate how this method can be used to quantitatively analyze data on past response performance. The authors conclude with a discussion of how this method of measuring emergency response system reliability could inform policy discussion of emergency preparedness, how system reliability might be improved, and the costs of doing so. --From publisher description.

Note: "This research was sponsored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and conducted under the auspices of the RAND Homeland Security and Defense Center, a joint center of the RAND National Security Research Division and RAND Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment." -- T.p. verso. , Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter One - Introduction: Measurement and Emergency Preparedness; Chapter Two - Defining and Demonstrating Response Reliability Analysis; Chapter Three - Describing a Chlorine Release Scenario and Relevant Response Parameters; Chapter Four - A Simplified Model of an Emergency Response to a Chlorine Release; Chapter Five - Exploring What Can Go Wrong During a Chlorine Response Operation: Identifying Relevant Failure Modes , Chapter Six - Assessing the Probability, Effects, and Severity of Failure Modes: An Exploratory Analysis Using Response After-Action ReportsChapter Seven - Concluding Observations; Appendixes; Bibliography; Back Cover , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8330-5005-2

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (112 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9786612282911 , 1-282-28291-3 , 0-8330-4102-9 , 1-4337-0948-1

Series Statement: Protecting emergency responders ; 4

Content: This monograph serves as a technical source for National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) incident commander guidelines for emergency response immediately following large structural collapse events. It characterizes response activities and expected hazards, and develops guidelines for selecting appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE). The partial or complete collapse of a multistory building creates an array of physical, chemical, and biological hazards. The most significant uncertainties are the composition and magnitude of the hazards present in the postcollapse e

Note: "Prepared for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health." , Cover; Preface; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Glossary; Chapter One - Introduction; Project Approach; Structure of This Monograph; Chapter Two - The Need for PPE Guidelines: Learning from the WTC Tragedy; After the Collapse: The Response and the Hazards; Learning from the WTC Disaster; Chapter Three - Characterization of Post-Structural Collapse Hazards; Physical Hazards; Chemical Hazards; Biological Hazards; Concluding Remarks; Chapter Four - Emergency Response to Structural Collapses; Defining the Hazard Environment; Response Activities at a Structural Collapse , Emergency Responders' Typical PPE EnsemblesSummary; Chapter Five - Guidelines for Emergency Responders' PPE Ensembles; Protection Required from Biological Hazards; Protection from Inhalation of Hazardous Materials; Implications for Responders' Typical Ensembles; Summary; Chapter Six - Logistics, Use, and Maintenance Issues at a Structural Collapse; Supply and Logistics; Integration and Compatibility; Training; Decontamination; Summary; Chapter Seven - Remaining Challenges for Protecting Emergency Responders at Multistory-Building Collapse Events; Planning for PPE Integration and Compatibility , Setting Safe Exposure LimitsConcluding Remarks; Appendix - Advisory Board Membership and Participants in Project Review Workshops; References , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8330-3907-5

Language: English

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Format: XXV, 66 S. , graph. Darst. , 23 cm

ISBN: 0833038346

Series Statement: Rand Corporation monograph series

Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-66)

Language: English

Keywords: USA ; Terrorismus ; Risikoanalyse ; Prävention

URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0518/2005024093.html

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ISBN: 0-8330-8936-6

Note: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8330-8826-2

Language: English

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ISBN: 0-8330-9626-5

Content: "Communities, companies, and governments at all levels in the United States are making decisions that will influence where, what and how infrastructure will be built. These design and policy decisions shape infrastructure, influence economic development, and influence future exposures to natural hazards for decades. Population growth and shifts, particularly those on the coasts, drive demand for new infrastructure, and, as a result, increase the exposure of infrastructure to natural hazards. These natural hazard exposures are projected to be larger and more uncertain in the future because of the effects of sea level rise and projected changes in temperature and precipitation patterns. Thus, incorporating natural hazard risk assessment into infrastructure planning is becoming both increasingly important and challenging. This report summarizes insights we have gained about the exposures to U.S. infrastructure from natural hazards now and in the future. Our analysis identifies regions in the country where infrastructure may be uniquely exposed to a complex set of natural hazards. In those regions, our analysis highlights the types of infrastructure that are exposed and the hazards that put them at risk. Our analysis also reveals where infrastructure exposures may be expected to change most dramatically. Finally, our analysis reveals where infrastructure exposures remain most uncertain and where new data and analysis would be most valuable. Each of these findings can inform federal efforts to improve infrastructure and resilience planning"--Back cover.

Note: Introduction: The Need to Better Understand Current and Future Hazard Exposure -- Defining and Analyzing Infrastructure Exposure -- Current Patterns of Exposure in the Continental United States -- Climate Change and Natural Hazard Exposure -- Findings and Policy Considerations.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8330-9500-5

Language: English

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ISBN: 0-8330-9627-3

Content: "The United States relies on a number of infrastructure systems--roads, the electric grid, ports, telecommunications networks, refineries, and the like--for carrying out basic social and economic functions. Disruptions of these systems could impose potentially significant economic, social, environmental and national security consequences. This report serves as the technical documentation and reference document for the data, methods, and analytic approach used in the analysis of national exposures to infrastructure from natural disasters. The analysis includes 11 natural hazards and five infrastructure sectors. Analytic findings about current and future exposures of infrastructure in the United States drawn from this data analysis are documented in a separate report. The report documents how each infrastructure type and hazard is represented in data sets to act as a reference for any use of the data. For each analyzed hazard, this report includes a brief background that describes potential infrastructure impacts, and relevant metrics; a list of sources used in compiling hazard data; an overview of existing methods and applications or modifications used to analyze regional exposure to varying levels of hazard severity. When analyzing infrastructure exposures with this data, it is important to understand this information to ensure that the analysis results reflect the scope, precision, and completeness of the data. Failure to appropriately use the data could result in analysis that misrepresents exposures. The report also provides an overview of all hazard and infrastructure data used to complete this analysis. Analytic findings about current and future exposures of infrastructure in the United States drawn from this data analysis are documented in a separate report"--

Note: Preface -- , Figures -- , Tables -- , Summary -- , Acknowledgments -- , Abbreviations -- , Introduction: , References -- Chapter 2. , Climate-Adjusted Hazards: , Coastal Flooding: , Data Sources -- , Analysis Methods -- , References -- , Extreme Temperature: , Data Sources -- , Analysis Methods -- , References -- , Meteorological Drought: , Data Sources -- , Analysis Methods -- , References -- , Wildfires: , Data Sources -- , Analysis Methods -- , References -- , Hazards Without Climate Adjustment: , Earthquakes: , Data Sources -- , Analysis Methods -- , References -- , Hurricane Winds: , Data Sources -- , Analysis Methods -- , References -- , Data Sources -- , Analysis Methods -- , Riverine Flooding: , Data Sources -- , Analysis Methods -- , References -- , Tsunamis: , Data Sources: , Analysis Methods -- , References -- , Tornadoes: , Data Sources: , Analysis Methods -- , References -- , Landslides: , Data Sources -- , Analysis Methods -- , References -- , Infrastructure Data Collection Process -- , Approach to Characterizing Infrastructure Vulnerability to Hazards.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8330-9458-0

Language: English