Author: Tom LaTourrette John Mendeloff
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: benefit, cost, trade, offs, effectiveness, implementation, workplace, safety, health, programs, mandatory
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0833045571
ISBN-13: 9780833045577

In 1998, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) began work on developing a standard that would have required all workplaces to establish a safety and health program, which uses management tools that address general behaviors and procedures to reduce the risk of occupational injuries and illnesses. Although some states already had such programs in place, OSHA argued that worksites with such programs had lower rates of injury and illness and that a federal standard would extend this benefit to worksites without such programs. By 1999, however, OSHA had abandoned its rulemaking

Authors:Ellen M. Pint, Lisa Pelled Colabella, Justin L. A
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: mobility, multipurpose, wheeled, vehicle, model, management, recapitalization, planning, fleet, improving
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0833041746
ISBN-13: 9780833041746

The U.S. Army is undergoing a major transformation to ensure that its future capabilities meet the needs of the nation. One element of its transformation strategy is the recapitalization (RECAP) program, which entails rebuilding and selectively upgrading 17 systems. The program has continuously evolved, with ongoing decisionmaking about what types of system modifications will occur and the scale of programs. Greater insight into aging effects can facilitate such decisions. This report describes regression analyses carried out to assess how vehicle age relates to annual repair costs and availab

Authors:Obaid Younossi, Mark V. Arena, Robert S. Leonard,
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: assessment, completed, ongoing, programs, quantitative, increasing, system, cost, growth, weapon
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833041355
ISBN-13: 9780833041357

In recent decades, there have been numerous attempts to rein in the cost growth of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition programs. Cost growth is the ratio of the cost estimate reported in a program

Author: Lionel A. Galway
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: risk, analysis, review, cost, elicitation, probability, distribution, subjective
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833040111
ISBN-13: 9780833040114

A cost estimate for a project such as the acquisition of a new aircraft or satellite system carries with it an inherent probability that the actual cost will exceed the estimate

Author: James N. Dertouzos
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: evidence, advertising, military, effectiveness, cost
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2009
ISBN-10: 0833045660
ISBN-13: 9780833045669

The Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps together spent more than $600 million on recruiting advertising in 2007, a 150 percent increase over that spent in 1999. The armed services are also spending more on Internet and cable TV advertising than in the past. Does this advertising produce enlistments? This documented briefing presents the results of an econometric analysis that used data from 2002 to 2004 to explore this and the following questions: How does advertising compare with such alternatives as offering bonuses or adding more recruiters? Which service’s advertising efforts are

Authors:Joseph G. Bolten, Robert S. Leonard, Mark V. Aren
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: major, defense, acquisition, programs, analysis, growth, weapon, system, cost, sources
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0833042890
ISBN-13: 9780833042897

Previous studies have shown that the Department of Defense (DoD) and the military departments have historically underestimated the cost of new weapon systems. Quantifying cost growth is important, but the larger issue is why cost growth occurs. To address that issue, this analysis uses data from Selected Acquisition Reports to examine 35 mature, but not necessarily complete, major defense acquisition programs similar to the type and complexity of those typically managed by the Air Force. The programs are first examined as a complete set, then Air Force and non-Air Force programs are analyzed s

Authors:Thomas S. Szayna, Kevin F. McCarthy, Jerry M. Sol
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: exist, matter, states, united, military, gap, civil
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833041576
ISBN-13: 9780833041579

What is the potential for a divergence in views among civilian and military elites (sometimes referred to as the civil-military gap) to undermine military effectiveness? The authors propose a five-stage analytical framework that encompasses the main areas where a civil-military gap might have an impact. Using an existing survey-based dataset (prepared and administered by the Triangle Institute for Security Studies) to inform this framework, they find a variety of differences among the military and civilian respondents. However, most of those differences disappeared when the authors focused on