RAND Corporation

📚 Education

Feb 05, 2026

Promising Practices for Building Stackable Credential Infrastructure

In this paper, the authors review promising practices for designing and implementing stackable credentials—a short-term credential that builds toward a higher-level credential—to inform the efforts of states and postsecondary institutions

United States

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🌍 Geopolitics

Feb 04, 2026

Surveying Duality in Space

These proceedings share details on a workshop examining dual-use space systems (those capable of performing both civilian and military operations) that included space stakeholders from the Indo-Pacific from government, private, and research sectors

عالمي

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🏥 Healthcare

Feb 03, 2026

Medicare Ground Ambulance Data Collection System (GADCS) Report Appendix

This appendix updates the response rates, summary statistics, and econometric analyses described in the previous report with data from all cohorts of the GADCS reported as of May 15, 2025 (including Year 1 through Year 4 cohorts)

United States

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🏥 Healthcare

Feb 03, 2026

Referral Pathways Into the NHS Digital Weight Management Programme for Musculoskeletal and Perioperative Patients

To understand reasons for variation and experiences of the implementation and functioning of referral pathways for musculoskeletal and elective surgical care patients into the NHS Digital Weight Management Programme

United Kingdom

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🏗️ Infrastructure

Feb 03, 2026

Who Funds Engineering Safety Research?

By developing understanding of the global engineering safety research publication and funding landscape, this work is intended to support research and funding in the field, leading to the development of safer engineered systems

عالمي

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🌍 Geopolitics

Jan 31, 2026

Improving Interoperability with Allies and Partners

The U.S. Air Force must generate and sustain airpower from dispersed, partner-owned locations. This brief discusses interoperability not as an end state but as a spectrum of cooperation that is tailored to requirements, standards, and capabilities

عالمي

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🌍 Geopolitics

Jan 31, 2026

Bridging innovation: Defence-civilian synergies for a resilient European future

This report presents the takeaways of an expert event titled ‘Bridging Innovation: Defence-Civilian Synergies for a Resilient European Future’, which was hosted on 8 September 2025 by the UK office of the Hanns Seidel Foundation and BASED Europe

United Kingdom

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📚 Education

Jan 31, 2026

Analysis of West Virginia’s State School Aid Funding Formula

This report, prepared for the West Virginia House of Delegates, is intended to provide an independent, holistic assessment of the state’s school aid funding formula and to identify opportunities for improvements in the state’s funding strategy

United States

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🏛️ Politics

Jan 30, 2026

The Science of Gun Policy

This report, in its fifth edition, synthesizes the available scientific evidence for the effects of various firearm policies on firearm deaths, violent crime, the gun industry, defensive gun use, and other outcomes

United States

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👥 Society

Jan 30, 2026

Mass Shootings in the United States

The authors describe approaches for defining a mass shooting and how these definitions can influence estimates of mass shooting trends. They then summarize findings from the literature regarding the characteristics and consequences of mass shootings

United States

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👥 Society

Jan 30, 2026

Firearm Mortality and State Characteristics

Rates of homicide, death by suicide, and firearm violence vary dramatically among U.S. states. This tool allows users to investigate how these differences correspond with state characteristics

United States

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📚 Education

Jan 29, 2026

Employers as Partners in the Success of Working Adult Learners

This report provides the first evaluation of the Achieve Your Degree program at Ivy Tech Community College. The authors offer recommendations for implementing employer partnerships and related programming to support working adult learners nationwide

United States

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