Author: Martin C. Libicki
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: global, local, responsibility, share, grid, information, runs, ways
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2000
ISBN-10: 083302888X
ISBN-13: 9780833028884

Traditionally, information provided to warfighters only gave them broad situational awareness. Today, information from sensors and databases can help warfighters target past what they can see. This has prompted the Department of Defense (DoD) to build a military analog to the Internet, to be a font of warfighting information (and system services). But how should responsibility for providing information and services be shared between global external sources and organic local sources? Both will be necessary, and sensor characteristics matter. But sometimes the need for integrated battlespace pic

Author: Eric von Hippel
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: innovation, sources
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1994-09-22
ISBN-10: 0195094220
ISBN-13: 9780195094220

It has long been assumed that new product innovations are typically developed by product manufacturers, an assumption that has inevitably had a major impact on innovation-related research and activities ranging from how firms organize their research and development to how governments measure innovation. In this synthesis of his seminal research, von Hippel challenges that basic assumption and demonstrates that innovation occurs in different places in different industries. Presenting a series of studies showing that end-users, material suppliers, and others are the typical sources of innovatio

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

Author: Herman Menck
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: management, design, registries, cancer, central
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1994-05-01
ISBN-10: 3718605791
ISBN-13: 9783718605798

Practical issues, including the use of computers, selection and training of professional, administrative and technical staff are included, along with quality control procedures, essential to assure the integrity of information kept by the registry. Follow-up procedures, sources of population data, calculation and interpretation of incidence rates and survival rates, and the differences between case-control studies and cohort studies (based on registry data) are also described. Prevention and control applications, and legal issues relative to the confidentiality of information in the data files

Authors:Susan M. Gates, Christine Eibner, Edward G. Keati
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: different, levels, roles, defense, department, workforce, planning, civilian
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2006
ISBN-10: 0833039016
ISBN-13: 9780833039019

The Department of Defense (DoD), along with other federal agencies, is striving to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of its civilian workforce and to address impending personnel challenges, such as a significant increase in retirement rates. The Department is evaluating the extent to which a data-driven and Department-wide approach to civilian workforce planning, drawing on lessons learned from workforce planning, can facilitate achievement of these goals.The DoD asked the RAND Corporation to explore how workforce planning and requirements determination are accomplished at specific inst

Author: Justin Palmer
Publisher: LULU
Keywords: english, business
Number of Pages: 114
Published: 2007
eBookDB-ID: LULU775049

This is a BUSINESS ENGLISH text aimed primarily at Chinese students. It makes use of everyday business articles from a variety of sources (such as BusinessWeek and Fortune magazine) to teach business vocabulary. Each chapter contains a number of discussion questions focused on the issues raised in that article. The main aim of the book is to have students practice their oral English using a specific vocabulary.

Authors:Frederic Wehrey, Dalia Dassa Kaye,
Publisher: RAND Corporatio
Keywords: iraq, war, east, middle, effect
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1969-12-31
ISBN-10: 0833047884
ISBN-13: 9780833047885

Regardless of its outcome, the Iraq War has had a transformative effect on the Middle East. To equip U.S. policymakers to better manage the war1s long-term consequences, the authors analyzed its effects on the regional balance of power, local perceptions of U.S. credibility, the domestic stability of neighboring states, and trends in terrorism after conducting extensive interviews in the region and drawing from an array of local media sources.