Barbara Bicksler

Measures of Performance and Effectiveness for the Marine Corps¿ Sexual Assault Prevention Programs

To assist the U.S. Marine Corps in evaluating its sexual assault prevention programs, the authors of this report identify and develop measures of perf...

Life Cycle Management of Military Commercial Derivative Aircraft

Improving FAA Certification, Implementation of Digital Engineering and Sustainment Strategy

To help the Army accomplish its diversity goals, RAND Arroyo Center examined retention of racial-ethnic minorities in the Regular Army's enlisted and ...

Air Force Non-Rated Technical Training

Opportunities for Improving Pipeline Processes

This report identifies opportunities for optimizing processes and policies in the U.S. Air Force nonrated technical training pipeline and recommends p...

Assessing the Readiness for Human Commercial Spaceflight Safety Regulations

Charting a Trajectory from Revolutionary to Routine Travel

RAND researchers assessed the progress that the commercial spaceflight industry has made in adopting voluntary safety standards and whether the indust...

Ensuring Parental Rights of Military Service Academy Cadets and Midshipmen

Policy and Cost Implications

U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) policy prohibits cadets and midshipmen at the U.S. military service academies (MSAs) from having dependents while enr...

A Survey System to Assess Abuse and Misconduct Toward Air Force Students in Occupational Specialty Training

Introduction -- Part I: Understanding Technical Training and Flying Training -- Characteristics of the Technical Training Environment -- Characteristi...

Creating Readiness Metrics for the Army Civilian Workforce

A Way Ahead for Integrating Readiness Into Civilian Workforce Planning

The authors develop a definition of and model for measuring civilian workforce readiness to inform Army policies and practices using qualitative metho...

Assessment and Selection for U. S. Air Force Special Warfare

Defining Attributes and Designing Rater Training

Air Force Special Warfare warrants specialized assessment and selection of future operators. The authors examine the nontechnical attributes needed to...

Criminal History Record Information Sharing with the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

Education and Training Materials for State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Partners

This report presents materials to facilitate more effective and efficient criminal history record information sharing with the Defense Counterintellig...

Harassment and Discrimination on the Basis of Gender and Race/Ethnicity in the Fema Workforce: 2021 Survey Follow-Up

This report describes gender-based/sexual and race/ethnicity-based harassment and discrimination at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. About one...

Air Force Nonrated Technical Training

Selected Topics to Improve Efficiency

The authors identify insights relevant to Air Force technical training from how colleges and universities size their instructor corps, best practices ...

Leveraging Commercial Space Services

Opportunities and Risks for the Department of the Air Force

The expanding global commercial space industry offers new opportunities--such as technological advances in small satellites, lower launch costs, and i...