Intelligence and Border Security, and More from CRS
Noteworthy new products from the Congressional Research Service include the following (all pdf).
“Securing America’s Borders: The Role of the Intelligence Community,” December 7, 2010.
“Hamas: Background and Issues for Congress,” December 2, 2010.
“U.S.-Australia Civilian Nuclear Cooperation: Issues for Congress,” December 1, 2010.
“Intelligence Estimates: How Useful to Congress?,” November 24, 2010.
In anticipation of future known and unknown health security threats, including new pandemics, biothreats, and climate-related health emergencies, our answers need to be much faster, cheaper, and less disruptive to other operations.
To unlock the full potential of artificial intelligence within the Department of Health and Human Services, an AI Corps should be established, embedding specialized AI experts within each of the department’s 10 agencies.
Investing in interventions behind the walls is not just a matter of improving conditions for incarcerated individuals—it is a public safety and economic imperative. By reducing recidivism through education and family contact, we can improve reentry outcomes and save billions in taxpayer dollars.
The U.S. government should establish a public-private National Exposome Project (NEP) to generate benchmark human exposure levels for the ~80,000 chemicals to which Americans are regularly exposed.