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Governing AI with Existing Authorities

Governing AI with Existing Authorities

Recent advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) have captured the public’s attention and sparked a widespread debate about how the government should regulate this powerful technology. A variety of policy…

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Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Forces

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management...

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) uses Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Forces to help shape its approach to offshore wind and other renewable energy development on the U.S. Outer Continental…

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Textile Recycling Technologies

Textile Recycling Technologies

The U.S. is one of the top consumers of textiles in the world, and clothing brands produce approximately twice the amount of clothing today compared to two decades ago. Driven…

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Eyes Wide Open: Harnessing the Remote Sensing and Data Analysis Industries

Eyes Wide Open: Harnessing the Remote Sensing and...

Remote sensing has a long history in the United States, but a relatively short commercial one. The 2020 National Space Policy explicitly states “that long-term United States national security and…

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Homeland Explosive Consequence and Threat Tool: HEXCAT

Homeland Explosive Consequence and Threat Tool:...

HExCAT is an explosive hazard modeling tool that estimates the potential impact and consequences of an explosion, including severity and types of injures, effectiveness of response, choke points and building…

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Enabling Principles for Artificial Intelligence Governance

Enabling Principles for Artificial Intelligence...

The question of how to govern artificial intelligence (AI) is rightfully top of mind for U.S. lawmakers and policymakers alike. Strides in the development of high-powered large language models  like…

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Research and Development: U.S. Trends and International Comparisons

Research and Development: U.S. Trends and...

Research and Experimental Development (R&D) refers to creative and systematic work aimed at increasing the stock of knowledge and is broken down into three categories: basic research, applied research, and…

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Offensive Deception

Offensive Deception

Deception can protect mission operational assets in the field, while redirecting, managing, and engaging with the adversary. Applications for deception in the mission realm include: 1. Adversary Engagement 2. Raising…

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Leveraging Deception Techniques

Leveraging Deception Techniques

Many organizations’ stance on cyber deception stems from the belief that only the ones that are mature enough can implement it into their current cybersecurity strategy. This is a common…

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Federal Capability Statement

Federal Capability Statement

The federal government and military sectors are continuously under attack by sophisticated and nation-state threat actors. New threats are discovered every day, and there is never a good time for…

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Emergency Management of Tomorrow Research: Landscape Assessment

Emergency Management of Tomorrow Research:...

As part of the Emergency Management of Tomorrow Research Program, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory conducted an Emergency Management…

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America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2022

America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2022

This report provides a demographic profile of the households and living arrangements of Americans, and how these have changed over time. Additionally, the COVID-19 pandemic affected the economic well-being of…

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Geographic Adjustments: Fair Market Rents and the Supplemental Poverty Measure

Geographic Adjustments: Fair Market Rents and the...

The Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) is one of two measures of poverty produced by the Census Bureau (the other measure being the official poverty measure). The SPM has been published…

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Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Reauthorization Act of 2023 (H.R. 6093)

Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation...

Hazardous weather and climate events kill hundreds of people and cause billions of dollars of property damage in the United States each year. In 2023, for instance, the United States…

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Landsat Next on the Horizon

Landsat Next on the Horizon

In December 2022, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey presented initial details about Landsat Next, the next proposed launch in the Landsat series of Earth-observing…

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