Brien Alkire

Littoral Combat Ships

Relating Performance to Mission Package Inventories, Homeports, and Installation Sites

Alkire et al. provide a clear understanding of the operational, logistics, and cost trade-offs between three interdependent elements of the Navy's Lit...

Guidelines and Metrics for Assessing Space System Cost Estimates

1. Introduction / 2. Space system fundamentals / 3. Reviewing a cost estimate / 4. Space vehicle cost crosschecks / 5. Common issues in estimating spa...

The Department of Defense Posture for Artificial Intelligence

Assessment and Recommendations

In this report, the authors assess the state of artificial intelligence (AI) relevant to DoD, conduct an independent assessment of the Department of D...

Evaluating Future Trends in Support of the Air Force Strategic Environment Assessment

Discussion and Results from a Structured Workshop

This report presents the results of a fiscal year 2016 RAND Project AIR FORCE add-on project to generate a range of future projections to assist Air F...

A Wargame Method for Assessing Risk and Resilience of Military Command-and-control Organizations

Many recent wargames conducted by the joint community have examined alternative organizational structures for operational-level command and control (C...

Challenges and Opportunities for Air Force Remotely Piloted Aircraft

Providing Positioning, Navigation, and Timing and Communications Links to Warfighters

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Applications for Navy Unmanned Aircraft Systems

In this book, RAND provides an evaluation of the Navy's ongoing and proposed unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) programs and describes the most promising...

Command and Control of Joint Air Operations in the Pacific

Methods for Comparing and Contrasting Alternative Concepts

This report recommends methods for comparing and contrasting alternative organizational concepts for command and control of joint air operations in th...

Leveraging the Past to Prepare for the Future of Air Force Intelligence Analysis

This report describes steps the U.S. Air Force can take to help ensure that it has the capability needed to provide intelligence analysis support to a...

Enhancing Assessments of Space Mission Assurance

The U.S. government has taken several steps to account for the increasing likelihood that future conflicts will extend to space, including the establi...

Insights from the Plan Blue 21 Game

Examining the Role of Sensing and Partner and Allied Contributions to Competition with Russia in the Arctic

Since 2016, Plan Blue wargames have explored scenarios that depict large-scale war fights against state adversaries in order to help U.S. Department o...