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Upcoming Webinars

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The Financing of Terrorism Through Cryptocurrency

COMING SOON – EXACT DATE AND TIME TBD. The earliest-reported foreign terrorist organization that adopted cryptocurrencies as a means of donations was the Ibn Taymiyyah Media Center (ITMC) crowdfunding campaign for Mujahideen Shura Council/Environs of…

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Tactical Grief-Processing: The Cornerstone of Unconventional Resilience

This presentation will explore the central hypothesis of an ethnographic study examining how U.S. Air Force Special Operations Surgical Teams (SOSTs) build and sustain resilience against catastrophic injury exposure. Moving beyond conventional trauma-based resilience frameworks,…

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Electromagnetic Pulse Hardening of Critical Infrastructure

An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) can have devastating consequences for electronic components, electrical systems, and the nation’s critical infrastructure.  While EMPs can be both natural and man-made, the events can damage and/or disrupt significant portions of…

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Barometric Extremes: Amplified Weather Hazards Impacting Energy and IT Sector Operations

Extreme weather trends over the past 85 years have indicated a major swing in lower lows, and longer lasting highs which is wreaking havoc on weather systems at the surface. When systems and practices were…

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Machine-Learning Weather Prediction

Machine learning (ML) is revolutionizing weather forecasting because it can identify complex patterns in vast amounts of weather data. It provides accurate predictions, fast updates, and the ability to capture subtle details that traditional methods…

Past Webinars

USAID: Conflict Assessment Framework

In order to best understand the environments where they work, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) uses a diagnostic tool called the Conflict…

Podcast: Interoperability Among Agencies and Local Population during Multilateral Peacekeeping Operations

Part 1 Integrated missions require people from diverse backgrounds to work together and to work with local populations with whom they may be unfamiliar, and…

Agnostic Compact Demilitarization of Chemical Agents (ACDC)

The safe destruction of chemical warfare agents (CWAs) and organic precursors is a timely, costly, and significant challenge for the international community. Today, for example,…

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Facial Recognition Performance and Its Measurement

Facial recognition sees daily press coverage for its capabilities, limitations, and policy implications. It has undergone a revolution since 2012, as the developer community has…

Podcast: Accent Matters: Biolinguistics and Social Identity Dimensions

Accent Matters: Biolinguistics and Social Identity Dimensions The aim of this podcast is to examine dimensions of accent in terms of the (bio-) linguistic mind/brain…

Podcast: Constructing Forensic Linguistic ‘Finger Prints’ for Human/Criminal Identification

Constructing Forensic Linguistic ‘Finger Prints’ for Human/Criminal Identification This podcast discusses forensic linguistics, a technology that offers a new frontier in forensic evidence gathering –…