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Authors:John A. Ausink, Laura H. Baldwin, Christopher Pau
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: lessons, commercial, sector, transformation, workforce, force, procurement, air
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2004
ISBN-10: 0833036483
ISBN-13: 9780833036483
The Air Force is in the process of significantly changing the way it purchases goods and services, with the goals of reducing costs and increasing performance to better support its missions. A procurement transformation division was created to lead these implementation efforts, and the new division highlighted two related areas for particular emphasis: (1) implementation of cross-functional teams (commodity councils) to develop strategies for individual commodity groups and (2) procurement workforce development to support implementation. This monograph reviews commercial-sector commodity counc
Author: Robert Wolfe
Publisher: Karina Library
Keywords: nonduality, living
Number of Pages: 468
Published: 2009-08-02
ISBN-10: 0982449100
ISBN-13: 9780982449103
Living Nonduality is about the nature of living without division. In recent decades, many in the Western world have begun to look anew at the ancient spiritual teachings from the East: the Zen Buddhism of Japan; the Tibetan Buddhism of the Dalai Lama; the Tao of China; the Sufis of the Muslim Middle East; the Vedanta scriptures of India. What all of these spiritual traditions have in common is a viewpoint which is different from mainstream Christianity, Judaism and Islam.How is it different, and what are the differences? Nonduality and the direct and immediate experience of universal
Authors:Andrew R. Hoehn, Adam Grissom, David Ochmanek, Da
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: security, challenges, iraq, america, meeting, division, labor, new
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833039628
ISBN-13: 9780833039620
A new U.S. grand strategy has been emerging, one that requires not only resources but patience and commitment: the promotion of democracy and freedom abroad. The U.S. armed forces will continue to be among the myriad contributors necessary to achieve this goal. In the face of increasing complexity, changing tactics, and tight budgets, the defense establishment will need to change in multiple ways, yet must also not risk its historic strengths. This volume draws together and integrates insights derived from a wide range of research efforts undertaken at RAND over the past few years. Some of the
Authors:Jeffrey Wasserman, Jeanne S. Ringel, Karen A. Ric
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: system, vera, regression, based, approach, allocation, resource, potential, changes, veterans, equitable, understanding
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2004
ISBN-10: 0833035606
ISBN-13: 9780833035608
The Veterans Health Administration asked the RAND National Defense Research Institute, a division of the RAND Corporation, to undertake a quantitative analysis of the Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA) system. VERA was instituted in 1997 and was designed to improve the allocation of the congressionally appropriated medical care budget to the regional service networks that compose the Department of Veterans Affairs health system. The study determines how particular patient and facility characteristics influence allocations to the regional service networks and simplifies and refines
Author: Craig A McMahan
Publisher: Wildlife Division, Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept
Keywords: accompany, map, pwd, bulletin, synopsis, illustrated, types, texas, including, cropland, vegetation
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 1984
eBookDB-ID: B00071SH8E
There has never been a very detailed map of existing vegetation types of Texas statewide on a plant association level. Important broad and/or regional studies include those by Bray (1906); Tharp (1926, 1939); Cottle (1931); Dyksterhuis (1946, 1948); Allred, et al. (1954); Gould et al. (1960) and a map by Telfair (1983). Kuchler (1964) published a potential natural vegetation type map of the conterminous United States. Kuchler's map is a valuable contribution from both the standpoint of existing and potential vegetation of Texas, however, the scale is too small for many planning purposes. The a
Author: David M. Marchick Alan P. Larso
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relatio
Keywords: schwartz, irene, series, american, competitiveness, bernard, right, national, investment, security, getting, balance, foreign
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2007-12-14
ISBN-10: 0876093640
ISBN-13: 9780876093641
The Dubai Ports World controversy has shed light on the tensions between Congress and the executive branch over the appropriate balance between foreign investment and national security. In the past few months, members of Congress have met with international companies, homeland security experts, and administration officials to better understand the process of reviewing security concerns associated with foreign investment in the United States. Congress is intent on changing the process and becoming more involved; the challenge ahead is to reform the process in order to minimize the security risk
