Devon Hill

Risk-Informed Analysis of Transportation Worker Identification Credential Reader Requirements

This report assesses the cost-effectiveness of a U.S. Coast Guard rule that requires any facility handling certain dangerous cargoes to biometrically ...

Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution in Comparative Organizations

Executive Summary

The Commission on Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) Reform asked the RAND Corporation for an independent analysis of PPBE-like fu...

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 ...

The Composition and Employment of Software Personnel in the U.S. Department of Defense

An Initial Analysis

Attempts by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to address persistent challenges with software development have been hampered by an inability to iden...

Strengthening the Defense Innovation Ecosystem

The Department of Defense can more effectively harness commercially developed technologies through policies that incentivize and improve coordination ...

Improving the Security of Soft Targets and Crowded Places

A Landscape Assessment

Researchers conducted a comprehensive landscape assessment of the attack threat to soft targets and crowded places and corresponding security measures...

Can a Daf-Wide Approach to Talent Management Meet the Needs of the Ussf and USAF Acquisition Workforce?

The authors assess the question of whether the Department of the Air Force (DAF) acquisition workforce management and development structures can meet ...

Improving the Representation of Women and Racial/ethnic Minorities Among U.S. Coast Guard Active-duty Members

The U.S. Coast Guard seeks to attract, recruit, and retain a workforce that represents all segments of U.S. society. However, in the current active-du...

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...

Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution in Comparative Organizations

Case Studies of Selected Allied and Partner Nations, Volume 2

In this second volume of four reports examining nine case studies of defense budgeting processes across comparative organizations, RAND researchers co...

Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution in Comparative Organizations

Case Studies of Selected Non-Dod Federal Agencies

This report, part of a four-volume set, presents case studies of planning, programming, budgeting, and execution (PPBE) functions in four federal agen...