Author: Mary E. Chenoweth Clifford A. Grammich
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: air, findings, force, spend, analyses, demonstration, management, engine, purchasing, supply, chain, f100
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2006
ISBN-10: 0833038893
ISBN-13: 9780833038890

This monograph describes spend analyses that the RAND Corporation conducted in 2002 for the first phase of a purchasing and supply management demonstration conducted at the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center for purchases of F100 jet engine spares and repair services and jet engine bearings. As part of the Spares Campaign begun in early 2001 under Air Staff leadership to reengineer Air Force supply, the objective of the demonstration was to apply best practices to managing supplies, suppliers, and the supply base to attain the best quality, performance, and prices in purchased goods and servic

Author: James N. Dertouzos Steven Garber
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: analyses, policy, options, recruiting, army, resource, management, human
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2006
ISBN-10: 0833040049
ISBN-13: 9780833040046

U.S. Army Recruiting Command (USAREC) is faced with the challenge of ensuring that the flow of qualified volunteers is adequate to meet future active-duty accession requirements. This report documents research methods, findings, and policy conclusions from a project analyzing human resource management options for improving recruiting production. It details research designed to develop new insights to help guide future recruiter management policies. The research involves econometric analyses of three large and rich datasets. The first analysis compares the career paths of enlisted personnel, in

Authors:Thomas Held, Bruce Newsome, Matthew W. Lewis
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: acquisition, decisions, improve, framework, military, equipment, commonality
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0833045504
ISBN-13: 9780833045508

Increasingly, the U.S. Army and the Department of Defense as a whole are developing families of systems built around common components. To inform the Army’s decisionmaking process surrounding commonality, RAND Arroyo Center was asked to assess the advantages and disadvantages of commonality and how to best manage their trade-offs. To do so, this report uses historical analysis, literature analyses, and case studies of commercial and military efforts to exploit commonality. It presents analyses of the effects of commonality on costs, capabilities, and training and offers a decisionmaking

Authors:Philip S. Anton, Dana J. Johnson, Michael Block,
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: analyses, assessment, nasa, supporting, facilities, tunnel, propulsion, test, wind
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2004
ISBN-10: 0833036424
ISBN-13: 9780833036421

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Authors:Ronald G. McGarvey, James M. Masters, Louis Luang
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: centralized, intermediate, repair, facilities, conus, analysis, air, space, expeditionary, forces, supporting
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0833042904
ISBN-13: 9780833042903

RAND was asked by the U.S. Air Force to carry out analyses needed to determine alternatives for the use of CONUS Centralized Intermediate Repair Facilities (CIRFs) that would provide increased maintenance efficiency (compared with traditional, decentralized structures) without reducing combat support capability. These CIRFs would provide off-equipment repair of propulsion and avionics components for the F-15, F-16, and A/OA-10. RAND developed an optimization-based analytic method for CIRF network design that identifies a range of cost-effective alternatives. Aircraft force structure bed-downs

Authors:Richard Silberglitt, Philip S. Anton, David R. Ho
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: trends, information, drivers, barriers, implications, social, materials, nano, revolution, technology, depth, analyses, bio, global
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2006
ISBN-10: 083303975X
ISBN-13: 9780833039750

In 2020, areas of particular importance for technology trends will include biotechnology, nanotechnology, materials technology, and information technology. The authors of this report assessed a sample of 29 countries across the spectrum of scientific advancement (low to high) with respect to their ability to acquire and implement 16 key technology applications (e.g., cheap solar energy, rural wireless communications, genetically modified crops). The study

Authors:Nancy Y. Moore, Mary E. Chenoweth, Elaine Reardon
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: contract, payment, transactions, analyses, spending, dod, transportation, estimating
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833041649
ISBN-13: 9780833041647

In FY 2003, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) spent nearly $7 billion on transportation, travel, and relocation services from commercial enterprises. Given a continuing need to make the most of existing resources, including those used for transportation, the U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM) asked the RAND Corporation to conduct a spend analysis of transportation purchases. This analysis of combined individual contracting action report (DD350) and PowerTrack (PT) data indicates that DoD has additional opportunities to leverage transportation spending, particularly where it uses tenders