Electricity: Federal Efforts to Enhance Grid Resilience
Domestic Preparedness
March 6, 2017
This report identifies grid resilience efforts implemented by federal agencies since 2013, highlights the results of these efforts, examines the extent to which these efforts were fragmented, overlapping, or duplicative,
DOD, HHS, and DHS Should Use Existing Coordination Mechanisms to Improve Their Pandemic Preparedness
Domestic Preparedness
March 3, 2017
This report assesses the extent to which: (a) the Department of Defense (DOD) has guidance and plans for supporting civil authorities in the event of a domestic outbreak of a
The Evolving Chemical/Biological Terrorism Threat
Ashley Frohwein
March 1, 2017
On 1 January 2017, British Minister of State for Security Ben Wallace warned that the Islamic State group (IS) has no moral qualms about carrying out a mass casualty attack with chemical weapons in Britain, and pointed to a December 2016 Europol report warning that IS may use chemical and biological (CB) weapons against European targets. The threat is growing.
