Jonathan W Welburn

This report documents an analysis, conducted in response to the California Public Banking Option Act, of the feasibility of a CalAccount Program, which offer Californians access to a voluntary, zero-fee, zero-penalty, federally insured transaction account and related payment services at no cost to account holders.

The perennial debate about whether U.S. allies are contributing sufficiently to the collective defense of the post-World War II liberal international order has resurfaced in recent years. In this report, RAND researchers describe the Burdensharing Index that they constructed to aid in measuring and analyzing allied contributions.

This report presents an examination of how cyber-related risks compare with other risks to defense-industrial supply chains, including how attackers might use supply chains to wage attacks, such as through malicious code, and how supply chains might, themselves, be targets of attack, such as through disruption. It also explores the implications of the differences in risks for directions in risk assessment and mitigation and for research.

Cyber mission thread analysis (CMTA), which identifies mission-critical systems in a cyber threat environment, requires a disciplined, well-planned process for its execution. This report provides a proposed planning and implementation guide (1) to perform CMTA expeditiously while still giving results good enough to make decisions about mission criticality, and (2) to analyze multiple missions concurrently.