Implementing Climate and Global Change Research


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The report reviews a draft strategic plan from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, a program formed in 2002 to coordinate and direct U.S. efforts in climate change and global change research. The U.S. Climate Change Science Program incorporates the decade-old Global Change Research Program and adds a new component -the Climate Change Research Initiative-whose primary goal is to "measurably improve the integration of scientific knowledge, including measures of uncertainty, into effective decision support systems and resources."




Public Health Information Technology: Additional Strategic Planning Needed to Guide HHS’s Efforts to Establish Electronic Situational Awareness Capabilities


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A catastrophic public health (PH) event could threaten our national security and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties. Recognizing the need for efficient sharing of real-time info. to help prevent devastating consequences of PH emergencies, Congress mandated the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS), in collaboration with state, local, and tribal PH officials, to develop a strategic plan for the establishment and evaluation of an electronic nationwide PH situational awareness capability. This report reviewed HHS's status of efforts to implement these capabilities, described collaborative efforts to establish a network, and determined grants authorized by the act and awarded to PH entities. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.




National Strategic Planning and Practice


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This title was first published in 2001. This text explores the relationship between telecommunications strategic planning process (TSPP), the organization and the environment for developing an understanding of the idea of a national TSPP (NTSPP) in Thailand. The overall aim is to explore an understanding of an NTSPP by providing a detailed study of the strategic planning and practices of the Thai telecom regulators during the period from 1954 to 1996. It applies the strategic planning process principles to further the understanding of NTSPP in Thailand. By using the SPP framework, the study develops a theoretical TSPP framework for analyzing the underlying TSPP strategies within the national telecom regulators in Thailand. It also seeks to illustrate the limitations of the traditional strategic planning theory when applied to NTSPP. From a theoretical perspective, this book illustrates that a lack of formalization and consensus in Thailand's NTSPP is the fundamental backlog for the successful operation of its industry.




The National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan


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Artificial intelligence (AI) is a transformative technology that holds promise for tremendous societal and economic benefit. AI has the potential to revolutionize how we live, work, learn, discover, and communicate. AI research can further our national priorities, including increased economic prosperity, improved educational opportunities and quality of life, and enhanced national and homeland security. Because of these potential benefits, the U.S. government has invested in AI research for many years. Yet, as with any significant technology in which the Federal government has interest, there are not only tremendous opportunities but also a number of considerations that must be taken into account in guiding the overall direction of Federally-funded R&D in AI. On May 3, 2016, the Administration announced the formation of a new NSTC Subcommittee on Machine Learning and Artificial intelligence, to help coordinate Federal activity in AI.1 This Subcommittee, on June 15, 2016, directed the Subcommittee on Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) to create a National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan. A NITRD Task Force on Artificial Intelligence was then formed to define the Federal strategic priorities for AI R&D, with particular attention on areas that industry is unlikely to address. This National Artificial Intelligence R&D Strategic Plan establishes a set of objectives for Federally-funded AI research, both research occurring within the government as well as Federally-funded research occurring outside of government, such as in academia. The ultimate goal of this research is to produce new AI knowledge and technologies that provide a range of positive benefits to society, while minimizing the negative impacts.







Combating Terrorists in the USA


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"Combating Terrorists in the USA" provides all Americans with basic information on how to deal with terrorists who are currently living in clandestine cells within the USA. We provide information on the enemy and the associated threat. "Combating Terrorists in the USA" provides strategy and the importance of intelligence. We delve into combating terrorism, risk management, security planning, and countermeasures. "Combating Terrorists in the USA" considers protecting our critical infrastructure, cyber-security (including cyber-crime, cyber-terrorism, and cyber-warfare), terrorist profiling, maritime piracy, abortion clinic bombings, Ku Klux Klan, Al-Qaeda, and naval militias. "Combating Terrorists in the USA" includes 443 reference citations of ideas from many of the greatest minds worldwide in homeland security and combating terrorists. Seven subject matter experts who are highly qualified practitioners contributed one or more chapters to "Combating Terrorists in the USA: Protecting the CONUS from Terrorists." Their contributions add tremendously to the quality and technical content of this book. I owe a debt of gratitude to them for the valuable information they provide for everyone's benefit.




Compendium report on multisectoral actions for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases and mental health conditions


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Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health conditions have a profound impact on societies, communities and individuals around the world. Their risk factors and determinants extend beyond the traditional health sector. Addressing this complex challenge necessitates interventions that reach beyond the boundaries of public health and requires a coherent, coordinated approach across all relevant governmental sectors. Understanding, documenting and sharing how governments implement multisectoral actions are essential to overcome these challenges and identify the capacity needs for coherent and sustainable responses to NCDs and mental health. In 2019, WHO Member States requested the Director-General to provide a consolidated report to the World Health Assembly analysing approaches to multisectoral action for NCD prevention and control, including addressing social, economic and environmental determinants of health. This compendium report is the Secretariat’s response to that request and features case studies from countries across WHO’s six regions.