A new U.S. Navy instruction offers a “guide to the operation and administration of detention facilities.”
Detention means “the temporary holding of persons in custody in a detention facility pending a decision to officially charge them with a criminal offense. Detention is distinctly different from confinement that includes pretrial or post-trial confinement.”
See “Guide for the Operation and Administration of Detention Facilities” (pdf), OPNAV Instruction 1640.9A, December 11, 2006.
Another new Navy instruction concerns information assurance. See “Navy Implementation of Department of Defense Intelligence Information System (DODIIS) Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)” (pdf), OPNAV Instruction 5239.3, November 27, 2006.
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.