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A Father's Journey to Become His Son's Caddie
A long-standing promise from a father to his five-year-old son . . . A poignant diary that chronicles the journey When Don Snyder was teaching the gam...
My Parents' Love Story
Don Snyder knew nothing about his mother aside from the terrible fact that she died at the age of nineteen, just sixteen days after giving birth to hi...
A Memoir of a Job Lost and a Life Found
Five years ago, Don Snyder was teaching English at Colgate University. He was forty years old and had a wife, three children, a new baby on the way, a...
When I looked up again, Mr. Halworth's red cap was gone. I wondered if his daughter had watched him disappear, and I turned to look at her. It took a ...
A Model for the Global Positioning System
Outlines criteria for analyzing how sustainment investments affect the operational performance of space systems, focusing on the Global Positioning Sy...
Workloads, Capacity, and Availability
This monograph describes a model for evaluating the combined capacity of organic (U.S. Air Force owned and operated) and contractor maintenance assets...
Framework, Metrics, and Methods
The goal of the defense budget is to deliver a portfolio of capabilities to meet a spectrum of uncertain future security environments. Despite progres...
This report devises a new metric for measuring expeditionary medical support (EMEDS) and develops a framework for applying it across three Air Force m...
America through the eyes of a Canadian photographer....
A Photographic Trip Into the Sixties
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An Implementation Guide for Process Planning and Execution
Cyber mission thread analysis (CMTA), which identifies mission-critical systems in a cyber threat environment, requires a disciplined, well-planned pr...
A Prototype Framework for Assessing Impact to Missions from Cyber Attacks to Weapon Systems
A decision to mitigate or accept a risk from a cyber attack to a weapon system depends on the operational mission impact. This proposed method for ass...
Waiting for Words
The U.S. Air Force asked RAND Project AIR FORCE to examine how tactics, techniques, and procedures should change to improve an airman's ability to det...
There is increasing concern that Air Force systems containing information technology are vulnerable to intelligence exploitation and offensive attack ...
This report describes new concepts for U.S. Air Force combat support command and control while under persistent multi-domain attack during a high-end ...
Application to Future Logistics Concepts
Researchers present a Future Logistics Concept Assessment Framework, which is a disciplined, systematic way to assess proposed future logistics concep...
This report presents a framework for the development of metrics-and a method for scoring them-that indicates how well a U.S. Air Force mission or syst...
One of the more challenging goals in programming is to link Air Force budget program element investments to operationally relevant capability metrics,...
The authors offer ways to help wings assure their missions despite cyber attacks, focusing on how wings can maintain situational awareness, defend the...
This report offers a foundation for better managing, at the enterprise level in the Air Force, efforts to ensure resiliency of missions to adversarial...
In Canadian Workspaces
Guidance for Where to Focus Mitigation Efforts
Report for Congress
In 2011, Congress mandated budget reductions requiring that the Department of Defense reduce its future spending by approximately $487 billion over th...
A Methodology for Determining Air Force Deployment Requirements
The Air Force's transition from a threat-based to a capabilities-based planning posture suggests the need to calculate swiftly the manpower and equipm...
Capabilities and Sustainability of Air and Space Expeditionary Forces
The Department of Defense in recent years has shifted from threat-based planning to structuring its forces to provide a range of capabilities. As such...
A Mission-Centric Approach
After decades of near neglect, the Air Force is embarking on a vast modernization of its portion of the nation's nuclear deterrence capabilities--but ...
The United States' nuclear deterrence is no more effective than its ability to carry out nuclear operations and other states' perceptions of this abil...
Prioritization and Scheduling
During the execution of programs, managers must orchestrate the planning and performance of upwards of tens of thousands of interdependent tasks. Many...
Policy Implications of Using Non-Dedicated Systems for Nuclear Command and Control
The systems used for command and control in the U.S. military are undergoing modernization with an eye toward greater integration and interoperability...
in Canadian workspaces
Developing and Presenting Options for Future Force Design and Capability Development
RAND Project Air Force assisted the Air Force Warfighting Integration Capability (AFWIC) in conceptualizing analytical and other products to support c...