The president's new National Security Strategy provides a vision and strategy for advancing the nation's interests, universal values, and a rules-based international order through strong and sustainable American leadership. The strategy outlines the principles and priorities that describe how the United States will lead the world toward greater peace and prosperity.
This report briefly describes the shift in the international security environment that some observers believe has occurred, and identifies some defense-related issues for Congress that could arise from it. Congress's decisions on these issues could have significant implications for U.S. defense capabilities and funding requirements.
Remarks by Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and the accompanying report provide a progress update for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for the calendar year 2014.
Following the conclusion of a two-year project initiated by the National Association of State EMS Officials Medical Directors Council, the National Model EMS Clinical Guidelines are now available. The project was developed to help state emergency medical services (EMS) systems ensure a more standardized approach to prehospital patient care.
The National Association of State EMS Officials released the emergency medical services' (EMS) domestic preparedness improvement strategy, which consists of goals, strategies, tasks, and activities to mitigate the 10 most significant gaps in EMS preparedness and response.
The U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management met on Tuesday, 27 January 2015, for a hearing entitled, Rebuilding After the Storm: Lessening Impacts and Speeding Recovery. This report contains a summary of subject matter testimony from the hearing.
This report briefly outlines the issues involved with terrorism insurance, summarizes extension legislation, and includes a side-by-side comparison of TRIA law and the bills introduced in the 114th and 113th Congresses.
This report presents an overview of the threat landscape in cyberspace. It presents a picture of what kinds of offensive and defensive tools exist and a brief overview of recent attacks. The report then describes the current status of US capabilities, and the national and international authorities under which the US Department of Defense carries out cyber operations.
The Global Risks report sheds light on global risks to help create a shared understanding of the most pressing issues, the ways they interconnect and their potential negative impacts. The shared understanding of challenges is needed as a base for multistakeholder collaboration to address global risks and build resilience against them.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Office for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Supports Public Health Law Program and Office of the Associate Director for Policy compiled a table of state-by-state Ebola protocols to help lawmakers and policymakers prepare for and respond to Ebola-related situations.
