Emergency Response for Homeland Security
The below publications were supported in whole or in part by SDC's research under the University of Southern California's Department of Homeland Security-funded Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorist Events (CREATE).  

• Decision Models for Emergency Response Planning
• Emergency Response for Homeland Security: Lessons Learned and the Need for Analysis
• Locating Facilities That Serve Cycles, Not Nodes
• OR Models for Homeland Security
• Viewing Urban Disruptions from a Decision Informatics Perspective

National Evaluation of Federally-Funded
Criminal History Records Improvement Programs
Under a multiyear grant from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, SDC is evaluating how federal programs such as the National Criminal History Records Improvement Program (NCHIP) impact the quality of state criminal history systems and bring the states closer to meeting federal statutory mandates.

• Records Quality Index (RQI) Report

Firearm Eligibility Background Checks Research
With BJS funding and the close collaboration of the  FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), SDC's research has shed light on the cost-benefit of checks conducted by states versus by the FBI, the scope and nature of replicated background checks, and the impact of denying prospective firearm purchasers.

• Cost-Benefit of Point-of-Contact (POC) Versus Non-POC Firearm Eligibility Background Checks
• Assessment and Resolution of Replicated Firearm Eligibility Checks

Other

• To Queue or Not to Queue: In a US Presidential Election, That Should Not Be a Question

Expertise

Homeland Security

Criminal Justice

Logistics

Queueing Analysis

Workforce Sizing