Authors:Beth E. Lachman, Peter Schirmer, David R. Freling
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: sharing, geospatial, data, assets, barriers, benefits, mapping, enables, missions, installation
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833040340
ISBN-13: 9780833040343

This report assesses the effects of using and sharing installations and environment geospatial data assets within and across the business, warfighting, and intelligence mission areas of the Department of Defense (DoD) Global Information Grid. The authors found that the assets have diverse beneficial effects and support a wide range of missions, including installation and environmental management, training, homeland security, military health, and warfighting operations and planning. Common benefits include time savings, cost savings, cost avoidance, improved situational awareness, more effectiv

Authors:Gary Cecchine, Michael A. Wermuth, Roger C. Molan
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: assets, respond, terrorist, attacks, medical, military, civil, support, using, triage
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2004
ISBN-10: 0833036610
ISBN-13: 9780833036612

Even before the events of September 11, 2001, threat assessments suggested that the United States should prepare to respond to terrorist attacks inside its borders. This monograph examines the use of military medical assets to support civil authorities in the aftermath of a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or conventional high explosives attack inside the United States. In conducting this study, the authors focused on the following questions: Under what circumstances could military medical assets be requested? What sort of asset is likely to be requested? Are appropriate assets and

Authors:Russell W. Glenn, Steven Hartman, Scott Gerwehr
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: shoulders, atlas, operations, support, combat, service, urban
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2004
ISBN-10: 0833034669
ISBN-13: 9780833034663

Operations in urban areas pose specific challenges for U.S. Army combat service support (CSS)--which is responsible for arming, manning, sustaining, and otherwise supporting these operations. This report gives an overview of these tasks and ways in which the CSS community can prepare itself to meet them. The authors conducted literature reviews and interviews, and they drew on extensive prior research. Findings fall into two broad categories: (1) functional-area specific, applying exclusively to arming, manning, sustaining, moving, fixing, force protection, and selected other areas; and (2) th

Author: Jill Boberg
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: policies, affect, freshwater, resources, management, water, assets, demographic, changes, liquid
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2005
ISBN-10: 0833032968
ISBN-13: 9780833032966

Human beings

Authors:John Birkler, Brien Alkire, Robert W. Button, Gor
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: guard, coast
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2004
ISBN-10: 0833035150
ISBN-13: 9780833035158

In November 2002, the United States Coast Guard (USCG) commissioned RAND to assess its Deepwater program, an effort the USCG is undertaking to slowly, but steadily replace or modernize nearly 100 aging cutters and more than 200 aircraft. Known more formally as the Integrated Deepwater System program, this endeavor aims to equip the USCG with state-of-the-art cutters, aircraft, helicopters, and unmanned air vehicles at an annual cost of about $500 million in fiscal year 1998 dollars, and to be completed in approximately 20 years. All of its activities will be orchestrated through an integrated

Authors:Donna Fossum, Lawrence S. Painter, Elisa Eiseman,
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: nation, universities, colleges, development, research, assets, federal, investment, vital
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2004
ISBN-10: 0833036246
ISBN-13: 9780833036247

To provide an empirical basis for assessing the federal investment in university-based research and development (R

Authors:Ellen M. Pint, John R. Bondanella, Jonathan Cave,
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: installation, assets, operations, services, military, conference, private, partnerships, background, papers, public
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2001
ISBN-10: 0833030191
ISBN-13: 9780833030191

The U.S. Department of Defense and the U.K. Ministry of Defence (MoD) face a common challenge: to modernize their forces to meet changing military threats under reduced budgets. To meet this challenge, both organizations are increasingly interested in leveraging private sector capital and expertise to provide defense activities and support services. This report provides an overview of private-sector involvement in the provision of defense support services in the U.K. MoD and the U.S. Army. It describes outsourcing and privatization initiatives in the United Kingdom from 1980 to the present.