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A long-awaited cease-fire between Israel and Hamas is in effect. But on the path toward peace, a cease-fire is just the beginning. New RAND research lays out a road map to achieving a *durable* Israeli-Palestinian peace. Here's an overview. 🧵
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The Department of Defense assesses and monitors the health readiness of America's armed forces. New RAND research examines DoD's health readiness assessments and identifies potential opportunities for improvement, increased efficiencies, and cost savings.
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5 problems that the emergence of artificial general intelligence presents for US national security: ➡️ wonder weapons ➡️ systemic power shifts ➡️ nonexperts empowered to develop weapons of mass destruction ➡️ artificial entities w/ agency ➡️ instability
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This new report quantifies the impacts of underperforming software on DoD productivity, mission readiness, and morale:
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This new report summarizes the literature on military compensation, with the goal of identifying ways to improve efficiency:
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In some U.S. cities, veteran households are 15% to 17% more likely to spend critical shares of their income on housing compared with nonveteran households. Our new report explores:
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Young adults in Los Angeles who were shifting to independence from the foster care system had a hard time finding permanent housing. Study participants moved an average of 15 times over a one-year period.
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New research explores ways to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of military health readiness assessments:
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Leading AI labs are in hot pursuit of AGI, which would produce human-level—or even superhuman-level—intelligence across many cognitive tasks. RAND's @jim_mitre and Joel Predd highlight 5 hard national security problems such a development could present:
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New research seeks to strengthen behavioral threat assessment and management efforts in K–12 schools:
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RAND experts discuss evidence-based tactics that could mitigate or even stop mass casualty attacks:
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RT @jim_mitre: AGI's potential emergence presents 5 hard problems for U.S. national security: 1-wonder weapons 2-systemic shifts in power…
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A new report examines how demographic changes in China could affect the future of the People's Liberation Army:
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Our new research explores the impacts of underperforming software and information technology in the Department of Defense:
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Understanding local geographic differences in veteran housing cost burden can help sharpen policy efforts to address veteran housing insecurity and homelessness. New research:
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With larger training runs and the widespread deployment of AI systems, how much power will AI data centers require? Our new study provides some estimates:
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The Indo-Pacific region is a crucial arena for U.S. foreign policy and the alliances and partnerships that will influence global trade and security frameworks moving forward. We asked a team of RAND experts to assess the issues at play in the region:
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When a student's behavior raises concerns that they may pose a risk to themselves or others, school leaders and public safety professionals must make a difficult judgment about the best way to respond. Our new research can help:
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How might China's demographic changes affect the nation's ability to transform its military into a more modern force? RAND research explores:
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Service members and civilians experience a variety of technical issues in using DoD-provided IT and software. A conservative estimate of the cost to DoD of lost productivity due to IT and software issues for FY 2023 is $2.5 billion. New report:
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New RAND research sets out security, governance, economic, physical and social, and international pathways to an Israeli-Palestinian peace that lasts.
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