SOARs are HDIAC publications that provide in-depth analysis of current technologies, research, and the latest technical information available on a topic within any of the HDIAC technical focus areas.
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) have risen to the top of the national consciousness. Warfighters returned from Iraq and Afghanistan with a high rate of TBI and mTBI, with over…
Biometric systems are used independently or in tandem with other systems to establish a person’s identity, such as for surveillance and monitoring (law enforcement trying to track persons of interest) or to ensure identification for…
The United States and its allies face the return of large-scale combat operations (LSCO) against peer and near-peer competitors—an environment not seen in over 70 years. The return of LSCO brings about multiple challenges, including…
Over the past 20 years, the landscape of threats posed to U.S. forces by chemical and biological (CB) weapons agents has grown in both complexity and scope. While the CB protective overgarments currently issued to…
The food and agriculture (FA) sector is designated as one of the 16 critical infrastructures that contribute to U.S. economic stability and security. Vulnerabilities in the FA sector pose a threat to food security, national…
Microgrids are an increasingly promising solution for providing the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) with energy resilience, or the ability to provide uninterrupted electricity supply to—and recover from disruptions in power at—fixed military installations. This…
This state-of-the-art report focuses on advances in combat casualty care (CCC) treatments, tools, and techniques enabled by the application of nanotechnology. Recent research and development at the nanoscale have yielded innovations in hemorrhage control and…
This State-of-the-Art Report focuses on recent advances in biometric recognition technologies and the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning to recognition tasks in multimodal identification systems. Multimodal systems use “feature-level” data fusion (e.g., periocular…
The Homeland Defense & Security Information Analysis Center (HDIAC) regularly develops state of the art reports (SOARs) in order to provide a compendium of scientific/technical articles that summarize the most current state of research in…
The Homeland Defense & Security Information Analysis Center (HDIAC) regularly develops state of the art reports (SOARs) in order to provide a compendium of scientific/technical articles that summarize the most current state of research in…
The Homeland Defense and Security Information Analysis Center (HDIAC) develops regular state of the art reports in order to provide a compendium of scientific/technical articles that summarize the most current state of research in topic…
Critical infrastructure is composed of assets necessary to the U.S. government, military, individuals, and private industry. The 16 U.S. critical infrastructure sectors are chemical; commercial facilities; communications; critical manufacturing; dams; defense industrial base; emergency services;…