Authors:Mark A. Lorell, Jeffrey A. Drezner, Julia F. Lowe
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: specifications, standards, reform, military, experience, mil, specs, navy, reforming
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2001
ISBN-10: 0833028863
ISBN-13: 9780833028860

This study helps determine why Navy military specifications and standards reform (MSSR) was not completed within budget or in accordance with a self-imposed schedule. The report defines the status of Navy reforms, looks for reasons why the Navy missed its self-imposed reform completion date, describes primary options for completing the reforms, and identifies steps RAND could take to help the Navy choose among these options. To help them understand the perspectives, interests, and concerns of all who were involved in the reform effort, the authors collected data from and held discussions with

Authors:Laura Werber Castaneda, Lawrence M. Hanser, Const
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: eskan, base, village, saudi, arabia, air, sultan, competency, deployments, development, experience, prince, role
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2004
ISBN-10: 0833035487
ISBN-13: 9780833035486

In fall 2001, the RAND Corporation conducted a survey of officers and enlisted personnel who had recently returned from a deployment to Prince Sultan Air Base (PSAB) or Eskan Village in Saudi Arabia. This documented briefing reports the results of that effort, using survey data to consider the utility of a PSAB/Eskan deployment as a setting for broadening the skills and developing the competencies of Air Force staff. This briefing also addresses the larger issue of whether the learning that occurs during deployments merits tracking. The authors surveyed officers and enlisted personnel in the c

Author: Jennifer Kavanagh
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: military, experience, training, aptitude, contribution, performance, findings, productivity, personnel, review, determinants
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2005
ISBN-10: 0833037544
ISBN-13: 9780833037541

Reviews the primary literature and empirical findings related to three major factors that affect military personnel productivity: experience, training, and ability. The majority of studies concerning the relationship between productivity and experience, training, or aptitude find that each of these three factors contributes significantly to personnel productivity. Most studies confirm that careerists are several times as productive as first-term personnel, although the size of the experience differential is likely to vary based on the nature and requirements of a given occupation. Additional t

Authors:Laura Werber Castaneda, Margaret C. Harrell, Dani
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: implications, support, retention, families, reserve, experiences, guard, deployment
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0833045733
ISBN-13: 9780833045737

Use of the Guard and Reserve has steadily increased since the first Gulf War in the early 1990s, and this trend is likely to continue as the Global War on Terror persists. Previous research on how deployments affect military families has focused almost exclusively on the Active Component; however, demographic differences between active component and reserve component families suggest that the latter may face different issues during deployment and consequently require different types of support. Castaneda et al. interviewed military family experts and guard and reserve service members and spous

Author: Jeremy M. Wilson Clifford A. Grammich
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: experiences, personnel, promising, practices, lines, discussion, national, retention, recruitment, contemporary, urban, environment, police
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2009
ISBN-10: 0833047396
ISBN-13: 9780833047397

Recruitment and retention of officers is an increasing challenge for police agencies in a time of increasing crime and homeland security demands and of decreasing resources in American cities. Many urban police agencies report particular difficulty in recruiting minority and female officers. To help address these challenges, the RAND Center on Quality Policing convened a National Summit on Police Recruitment and Retention in the Contemporary Urban Environment in June 2008. Speakers discussed changing police workforce issues, strategies being employed, lessons that could be learned from other o

Authors:Brian A. Jackson, Peter Chalk, Richard Warnes, Li
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: united, australia, canada, france, kingdom, germany, experiences, states, domestic, creation, intelligence, agency, considering, lessons
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2009
ISBN-10: 0833046179
ISBN-13: 9780833046178

With terrorism still prominent on the U.S. agenda, whether the country’s prevention efforts match the threat the United States faces continues to be central in policy debate. One element of this debate is questioning whether the United States should create a dedicated domestic intelligence agency. Case studies of five other democracies

Authors:Stephanie S. Teleki, Cheryl L. Damberg, Melony E.
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: first, groups, trainees, experiences, corps, patient, safety, improvement, evaluation
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2006
ISBN-10: 083303992X
ISBN-13: 9780833039927

The Patient Safety Improvement Corps (PSIC), part of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality