This perspective examines how federally funded research and development centers can close gaps across three domains: data and infrastructure, algorithmic intelligence, and autonomous experimentation
Researchers compared Santa Monica’s recent economic and social trends with peer cities near Los Angeles. They found steeper declines in retail sales and tourism, but recent policy reforms may improve the city’s economic trajectory
The U.S. government is opening federal land for data center development. In this report, the authors explore how the government could facilitate the siting and construction of data centers on federal land within the context of energy constraints
The authors evaluate the Coast Guard’s sexual assault and sexual harassment prevention and response strategies, victim support services to support recovery efforts, and accountability mechanisms
In this watershed moment for policy analysis driven by AI, which has eroded trust in experts and institutions, the field must revisit first principles and use them to guide institutional redesign, policy analysis training, and research governance
This report describes the development of a model to analyze policies to address the opioid epidemic and summarizes the relevant data. This paper does not include any specific policy analysis; rather, it presents the tools to do such analysis
The authors examine how personal injury class actions have fared since key U.S. Supreme Court rulings, compare those rulings with other litigation aggregation mechanisms, and highlight reforms to support fair and efficient resolution of mass claims
With this analysis, the authors identify the conditions under which restraint is feasible and sustainable, as well as show how these conditions shift as states come to believe that they are close to attaining artificial general intelligence
This report presents findings from the impact evaluation of California’s Veterans Support to Self-Reliance initiative, which is designed to provide enhanced supportive services to veterans living in permanent supportive housing
The authors use two concepts from educational policy literature, accountability and alignment, to examine strategies that a school district implemented to spur the increased usage of an educational technology platform for learning math
This study examines how emerging non-nuclear command and control and counter-C2 systems could affect strategic stability as digital technology, AI, commercial infrastructure and contested information transform military operations and decisions
This is the first of several reports in a RAND study on the U.S.-China competition. The authors provide a framework for evaluating the character and status of that competition and give insight into how the United States can gain strategic leverage