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New hostage strategy to follow interagency review
Posted: April 28, 2015 by the Simons Center
Officials recently announced that an interagency review of U.S. hostage policy will be completed this spring. The review has been under way for nearly a year, and was originally announced in November 2014. The accidental killing of two hostages, American... Read More
Report outlines lessons learned establishing interagency task force
Posted: February 25, 2015 by the Simons Center
Earlier in February, the RAND Corporation released a report documenting lessons learned while establishing the Guatemalan Interagency Task Force (IATF) Tecún Umán. The IATF was established for the interdiction of drug flow across the Mexican border. Guatemala is a major... Read More
USAID leads, DoD supports U.S. Ebola response
Posted: October 7, 2014 by the Simons Center
In the past two weeks the U.S. government has made several announcements outlining whole-of-government response to the Ebola outbreak in Africa. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is the lead agency in the effort, with support from the Department... Read More
USAID builds on Iraq emergency response
Posted: September 29, 2014 by the Simons Center
In the past two months, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has released a series of fact sheets outlining their role in the U.S. response to continuing conflict and hardship in Iraq. The fact sheets provide and overview of... Read More
Report recommends improved transportation collaboration in disaster response
Posted: June 18, 2014 by the Simons Center
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report in May of this year assessing the collaborative efforts made by the Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) during Hurricane Sandy. The report, GAO-14-512, focuses on... Read More
DOJ/DHS partnership curbs cybercrime
Posted: June 17, 2014 by the Simons Center
In early June, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported on the success of its partnership with the Department of Justice (DOJ) in containing the spread of the Gameover Zeus botnet. Gameover Zeus is a sophisticated piece of malware that... Read More
IAP 12W (February 2014) Systems Theory and Military Leadership
Posted: February 25, 2014 by the Simons Center
by Lisa Livingood How a person understands and thinks about their environment matters. Joint doctrine, explicitly, and Army doctrine, implicitly, recommend that military commanders and staffs exercise systems thinking in operational planning and execution. However, current military doctrine fails to... Read More
IAP 11W (November 2013) Evolving a Hamstrung and Broken System
Posted: November 19, 2013 by the Simons Center
by Ryan R. McCallum In recent years, the topic of interagency collaboration between “operational” military units, such as special operations forces (SOF), and “civilian” organizations, such as the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development, has become... Read More
RAND reports on DoD disaster relief efforts
Posted: October 22, 2013 by the Simons Center
Earlier this year the RAND Corporation published a report examining Department of Defense (DoD) humanitarian assistance/disaster response (HA/DR) operations in four major international disasters occurring between 2008 and 2011. The report underlines the key lessons learned from DoD’s role in... Read More
Report reviews nuclear response preparedness
Posted: October 10, 2013 by the Simons Center
In late September, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report that reviewed the level of preparation of 27 major U.S. cities considered to be at high risk of a nuclear terrorist attack. GAO’s findings were based on the survey... Read More
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