State-of-the-Art Reports (SOARs)

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Autonomous Platforms for Casualty Evacuation

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…

Unencumbering the Warfighter: Functionalized Materials for Chemical and Biological Protective Clothing

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…

Agricultural Security: Impacts on Military Readiness and National Security

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…

Resilience by Design: Microgrid Solutions for Installation Energy

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…

Nanotechnology Applications for Combat Casualty Care

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…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in Biometric Data Fusion

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…

Critical Infrastructure Protection

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…

Alternative Energy: An Enabler of Military Capability

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…

Countermeasures Against the Degradation of Warfighter Capabilities Due to Infectious Disease Threats

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 Resilience

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;…

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Defense Applications

This State of the Art Report focuses on applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that are relevant to DoD and other governmental agencies that share similar goals, such as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and…

Methods for Investigating Chemical/Biological Weapons Use

This state-of-the-art report (SOAR) focuses on technologies and methods regarding the investigation of alleged chemical and/or biological weapons use as it pertains to DoD’s mission to protect U.S. forces and the homeland from chemical and…