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Retention of Racial-Ethnic Minorities in the Regular Army
To help the Army accomplish its diversity goals, RAND Arroyo Center examined retention of racial-ethnic minorities in the Regular Army's enlisted and officer ranks and how racial-ethnic composition changes as soldiers progress in their careers.
Nov 30, 2023
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Research Brief
Striving for Diversity: Observations on Racial and Ethnic Talent in the Regular Army's Senior Officer Corps
This brief discusses research on the progression of racial and ethnic minority officers through the ranks and ways to improve promotion rates to increase diversity in senior Army leadership.
Nov 30, 2023
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Assessing Competencies and Proficiency of Army Intelligence Analysts Across the Career Life Cycle
This report describes the development and implementation of a process to assess key analytic competencies and proficiency of the U.S. Army's analysts in the 35F military occupational specialty and the design of a protocol for ongoing evaluation.
Jul 27, 2017
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Improving the Air Force Small-Business Performance Expectations Methodology
This study is an assessment of the Air Force Small-Business Performance Expectations Methodology, with recommendations for improvement.
Jun 2, 2017
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A Review of Alternative Methods to Inventory Contracted Services in the Department of Defense
Concerned about U.S. Department of Defense contracts for private-sector services, Congress mandated development of an inventory of contract activities. RAND conducted a review of the system, stakeholder needs, and alternative data sources.
Apr 27, 2017
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Issues with Access to Acquisition Data and Information in the Department of Defense: Doing Data Right in Weapon System Acquisition
This report examines Department of Defense acquisition data and the information systems where it resides and offers insights into improving the management, availability, and usefulness of this information.
Mar 27, 2017
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Issues with Access to Acquisition Data and Information in the Department of Defense: A Closer Look at the Origins and Implementation of Controlled Unclassified Information Labels and Security Policy
The authors evaluated current Controlled Unclassified Information labeling procedures, practices, and security policies for U.S. Department of Defense acquisition data and recommend improvements.
Dec 19, 2016
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Developing a Risk Assessment Methodology for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
This report provides a risk assessment methodology that integrates risk factors and risk management approaches tailored to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's management, operations, and acquisition structures.
Jun 29, 2016
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Identifying and Managing Acquisition and Sustainment Supply Chain Risks
Examines supply chain risk management, including evolving commercial and Air Force practices, and recommends modifications to Air Force practices.
Mar 4, 2015
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Findings from Existing Data on the Department of Defense Industrial Base
Existing federal data can identify subcontractors in the defense supply base, their socioeconomic status, and the vulnerability of contractors and subcontractors to environmental risks and changes in their federal prime and subcontract revenue.
Nov 6, 2014
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Identifying and Eliminating Barriers Faced by Nontraditional Department of Defense Suppliers
The report seeks to identify barriers that companies face when attempting to enter into contracts with the Department of Defense (DoD), especially when they are not traditional DoD suppliers.
Sep 25, 2014
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Small Business and Strategic Sourcing: Lessons from Past Research and Current Data
Department of Defense (DoD) goals may conflict as DoD attempts to apply strategic-sourcing practices to reduce total costs and improve performance while maintaining a goal of spending about 23 percent of prime-contract dollars with small businesses.
Aug 26, 2014
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Obtaining Life-Cycle Cost-Effective Facilities in the Department of Defense
The Department of Defense constructs, operates, and maintains numerous facilities. This report shares RAND's description and assessment of the process used to obtain life-cycle cost-effective facilities and how it affects construction options.
Mar 5, 2013
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A Gap Analysis of Life Cycle Management Commands and Best Purchasing and Supply Management Organizations
Reviews the Army's achievements in implementing best purchasing and supply management practices and describes how this progress compares with that of leading commercial enterprises.
Jan 7, 2013
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Assessing the Impact of Requiring Justification and Approval Review for Sole Source 8(a) Native American Contracts in Excess of $20 Million
A new federal requirement for justification and approval of 8(a) contracts over $20 million may delay the awarding of these contracts to eligible participants such as Native Group firms but have little impact on the number of such contracts awarded.
Dec 10, 2012
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Supplier Relationship Management at Army Life Cycle Management Commands: Gap Analysis of Best Practices
Examines the Army's supplier relationship management practices, identifying best practices and focusing on how the Army can gain better performance and reduce total costs.
May 23, 2012
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Periodical
RAND Review: Vol. 35, No. 3, Winter 2011-2012
Stories discuss world demographic trends, Afghan peace prospects, U.S. health care spending, California prisoner reentry, Latin American inequalities, global health, veterans' mental health, highway investments, teacher bonuses, and charter schools.
Jan 13, 2012
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Small Business and Defense Acquisitions: A Review of Policies and Current Practices
Evaluates federal small business policies, how they affect the Department of Defense, and the challenges associated with meeting mandated small business goals.
Oct 17, 2011
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Report
Targets for Marine Corps Purchasing and Supply Management Initiatives: Spend Analysis Findings
Moore et al. provide a first-order analysis of Marine Corps purchases and Defense Logistics Agency purchases on behalf of the Marine Corps, revealing many indicators of opportunities and challenges for purchasing and supply management initiatives.
Oct 13, 2011
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Periodical
RAND Review: Vol. 35, No. 2, Summer 2011
Stories discuss America after 9/11, Afghan-based solutions, Al Qaeda's narrative, air passenger security, victim compensation, military families, health insurance, entrepreneurship, unemployment, sex, Katrina families, Arab Spring, and a new RAND.
Sep 1, 2011
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Demographic Trends, Policy Influences, and Economic Effects in China and India Through 2025
Compares the recent and likely future demographic situations in China and India and their implications.
Jun 1, 2011
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Periodical
RAND Review: Vol. 35, No. 1, Spring 2011
Stories discuss gays in the military, police recruitment, home health care, breast cancer, health insurance exchanges, alternative fuels, refinery taxes, alcohol prices, outer space debris, mental illness, diplomatic trends, and health care costs.
Apr 29, 2011
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Changing Aircraft Carrier Procurement Schedules: Effects That a Five-Year Procurement Cycle Would Have on Cost, Availability, and Shipyard Manpower and Workload
Proposed changes to the Navy's aircraft carrier acquisition program will have little impact in the short term. Later, the force structure and the probability of meeting deployment goals shrink, along with the Navy's ability to grow the fleet.
Mar 21, 2011
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Advancing Aeronautics: A Decision Framework for Selecting Research Agendas
Develops a unified decisionmaking approach for selecting aeronautics research agendas that quantifies the social and economic reasons for the research, balances competing perspectives, and enables transparent explanation of the resulting decisions.
Feb 17, 2011
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Report
Reducing Gun Violence: Results from an Intervention in East Los Angeles
Describes an intervention designed to reduce youth gun violence in an East Los Angeles neighborhood.
Dec 22, 2010
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Research Brief
Improving Police Recruitment and Retention
Local police agencies face recruitment and retention challenges. Existing research can help local officials identify what has been learned elsewhere and is applicable to their own situations.
Oct 9, 2010
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Police Recruitment and Retention for the New Millennium: The State of Knowledge
This book summarizes lessons on recruiting and retaining effective police workforces.
Dec 31, 2009
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Police Recruitment and Retention in the Contemporary Urban Environment: A National Discussion of Personnel Experiences and Promising Practices from the Front Lines
A summary of the presentations, discussions, and opinions offered by panelists at a National Summit on Police Recruitment and Retention in the Contemporary Urban Environment held at RAND in June 2008.
Jun 9, 2009
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DDG-51 Engineering Training: How Simulators Can Help
Increased use of training simulators could improve engineering watchstanders' proficiency before Navy destroyers go to sea, saving money and reserving time at sea for refined training.
May 13, 2009
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Periodical
RAND Review: Vol. 32, No. 3, Fall 2008
The cover story offers 12 suggestions for the new U.S. president; other pieces discuss education and health in China and India, health policy models, the U.S. Postal Service mailbox monopoly, a green U.S. Army, and political reform in the Arab world.
Dec 14, 2008
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U.S. Navy Shipyards: An Evaluation of Workload- and Workforce-Management Practices
RAND examines how best to manage the multibillion-dollar annual workload of public shipyards, including alternative workload allocations, options to decrease overtime levels and hedge against workload growth, and other potential U.S. Navy strategies.
Dec 8, 2008
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Enhancing Small-Business Opportunities in the DoD
Examines how federal programs and direct purchase goals affect small business contracting opportunities within the Department of Defense.
Oct 18, 2008
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Report
Why Has the Cost of Fixed-Wing Aircraft Risen? A Macroscopic Examination of the Trends in U.S. Military Aircraft Costs over the Past Several Decades
This report explores why, in recent decades, military fixed-wing aircraft costs have escalated faster than the rates of inflation, examining both economy-driven factors that the Services cannot control and customer-driven ones that they can.
Jun 25, 2008
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Research Brief
Aircraft Carrier Maintenance Cycles and Their Effects
This research brief summarizes RAND's analysis of the feasibility of different cycle lengths and their effect on the operational availability of Nimitz-class aircraft carriers. The authors also examine cycle length impact on shipyard workloads.
Apr 8, 2008
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Increasing Aircraft Carrier Forward Presence: Changing the Length of the Maintenance Cycle
Evaluating multiple one- and two-deployment scenarios, RAND examines the feasibility of different cycle lengths, their effect on Nimitz-class aircraft carrier forward presence, and their impact on shipyard workloads.
Mar 17, 2008
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Brain Korea 21 Phase II: A New Evaluation Model (Korean-language version)
Presents an evaluation model to assess the impact of the Brain Korea 21 program, which seeks to make Korean research universities globally competitive and to produce more high-quality researchers in Korea.
Mar 12, 2008
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Brain Korea 21 Phase II: A New Evaluation Model
Presents an evaluation model to assess the impact of the Brain Korea 21 program, which seeks to make Korean research universities globally competitive and to produce more high-quality researchers in Korea.
Mar 11, 2008
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Research Brief
Evaluating the BK 21 Program
This research brief describes RAND's suggestion of a model and database for evaluating Brain Korea 21, a program to improve Korean universities by providing fellowships to graduate students and young researchers.
Mar 10, 2008
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Developing Tailored Supply Strategies
Expenditures on purchased goods and services constitute large and growing portions of the budgets for most enterprises. The authors offer a set of steps for managing these, synthesized from the literature for analyzing total spending on commodities.
Sep 20, 2007
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American and Iranian Public Opinion: The Quest for Common Grounds
Uses data from the World Values Survey to assess similarities and differences in the core political, religious, social, and economic values of the United States and Iran.
Sep 13, 2007
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Estimating DoD Transportation Spending: Analyses of Contract and Payment Transactions
This analysis of individual contracting action report and PowerTrack data shows that the U.S. Department of Defense can further leverage transportation spending, particularly when it uses tenders instead of contracts to buy transportation services.
Sep 5, 2007
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A Methodology for Estimating the Effect of Aircraft Carrier Operational Cycles on the Maintenance Industrial Base
Describes modeling the extension of time between depot maintenance, varying the size of work packages, and using continuous-maintenance on the maintenance industrial base, and the effect of cycle length on operational availability.
Jul 29, 2007
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The F100 Engine Purchasing and Supply Chain Management Demonstration: Findings from Air Force Spend Analyses
Describes spend analyses drawn from a purchasing and supply management demonstration for purchases of F100 spare parts and repair services.
Dec 6, 2006
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Research Brief
Spend Analyses Conducted for the Air Force F100 Engine Demonstration
This research brief uses a spend analysis on the F100 engine to show how certain commercial best practices can help the Air Force identify specific goals related to managing outside suppliers and help achieve cost and performance goals.
Nov 21, 2006
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Research Brief
Why Have Navy Ship Costs Risen?
This research brief examines the rising costs of U.S. Navy ships over the past few decades and what the service can do now and in the future to reduce these costs.
Jul 18, 2006
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Why Has The Cost of Navy Ships Risen? A Macroscopic Examination of the Trends in U.S. Naval Ship Costs Over the Past Several Decades
Examines why the increases in acquisition cost for U.S. naval ships have outpaced the rate of inflation over the past several decades.
Apr 20, 2006
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Demographics and Security in Maritime Southeast Asia
This article analyzes how demographic factors are affecting the security environment of Southeast Asia and examines the resulting security implications for the United States.
Mar 17, 2006
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Demographics and Security: The Contrasting Cases of Pakistan and Bangladesh
This paper argues that many of the observed dissimilarities between Pakistan and Bangladesh stem, at least in part, from demographic differences, some of which can be attributed to the two countries' diverse human development policies.
Nov 28, 2005
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Research Brief
Building Ships On Time: How Can the Defence Procurement Agency More Accurately Monitor Progress?
UK military shipbuilding experiences considerable schedule slippage. To assess the reasons for this and means to improve it, RAND researchers surveyed major shipbuilders, reviewed relevant literature, and identified the primary causes of production d...
Nov 25, 2005
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Changes in American Opinion about Family Planning
The results indicate continuing high support for requiring US health insurers to cover family planning services, but some loss of support for US sponsorship of family planning programs in developing countries.
Oct 28, 2004
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Using a Spend Analysis to Help Identify Prospective Air Force Purchasing and Supply Management Initiatives: Summary of Selected Findings
This briefing summarizes research on how the Air Force might use an analysis of its spending to develop better supply management strategies, improve its relationships with suppliers, and better manage its supply base.
Sep 21, 2004
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Journal Article
Disarming Development
The continuing paths of development pursued by Bangladesh and Pakistan merit monitoring for the lessons they offer.
2004
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Designing Airports for Security: An Analysis of Proposed Changes at LAX
The Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) Master Plan explores a variety of ways to meet the changing aviation needs of Southern California in coming decades.
2003
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Periodical
RAND Review: Vol. 27, No. 3, Fall 2003
Shows how coordinated efforts among community groups and public agencies can reduce gun violence among inner-city youth; also covers expanding health insurance, defense personnel policies, the nuclear threat, domestic violence, and nanotechnology.
2003
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Too Few Good Men: The Security Implications of Russian Demographics
A decreasing number of births and increasing number of deaths continues to cause Russian population losses, particularly, in recent years for military-age males.
2003
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Strategic Appraisal: United States Air and Space Power in the 21st Century
This report draws on the expertise of researchers from across RAND to explore both the challenges and opportunities that the U.S. Air Force faces as it strives to support the nation's interests in a challenging technological and security environment.
2002
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Dire Demographics: Population Trends in the Russian Federation
In sum, the demographic problems Russia faces indicate it may do better to focus on qualitative indicators, such as the health and welfare of its population, than on quantitative indicators, such as the overall size of its population.
2001
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Research Brief
Dire Demographic Trends Cast A Shadow on Russia's Future
The report examines overall population change, patterns of fertility and mortality, and shifts in age structure, as well as the implications of demographic change for public policy.
2001
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Journal Article
Expeditionary Operations: Intermediate Engine Maintenance Alternatives
Options for Jet Engine Intermediate Maintenance (JEIM) structures for F100 engines on F-15 and F-16 aircraft and TF-34 engines on A-10 aircraft.
2001
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Research Brief
Improvements in Contraception Are Reducing Historically High Abortion Rates in Russia
Examines the historical causes underlying traditionally high abortion rates in Russia, the contribution of family planning programs in recent years to reducing abortion rates, and prospects for continued improvement.
2001
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Research Brief
Russia's Mortality Crisis: Drinking, Disease, and Deteriorating Health Care
Authors conclude that many unfavorable current demographic trends are the continuation of long-term patterns, in some cases aggravated by economic stagnation and stress from recent social and political changes in Russian society.
2001
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Journal Article
Global Access: Strategy 2000
Defense basing decisions reflect both military needs and political conditions.
2000
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Journal Article
Strategy 2000: Alternate Munitions Prepositioning
The Air Force has a substantial amount of munitions prepositoned in Southwest Asia and aboard ships in the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.
2000
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Journal Article
Expeditionary Airpower: A Vision for Agile Combat Support
To a large extent, success of Expeditionary Aerospace Forces depends on turning the current combat support system into one that is much more agile.
1999
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Journal Article
Expeditionary Airpower: F-15 Support Analysis: Exploring F-15 Avionics Intermediate Maintenance Concepts to Meet AEF Challenges
Examines options the Air Force might consider for F-15 avionics maintenance to work toward achieving EAF goals.
1999