Elizabeth Hastings Roer

Modeling and Measuring the Effects of Economic Shocks on a Defense Industrial Base

Economic shocks are unanticipated changes in the conditions upon which resource allocation decisions are based. Economic shocks include a wide range o...

The Technology Promotion and Protection Decision Tool

Introduction and User Manual

The U.S. government has developed hundreds of approaches to promote and protect critical technologies and their associated industrial base, and the sh...

Amping Airpower--Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing for the U. S. Air Force

Military Utility, Market Dynamics, and Warfighter Adoption

The authors evaluate the possible utility of electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, how much influence the U.S. Air Force has on technical de...

Characterizing the Uncrewed Systems Industrial Base

The Department of Defense has hypothesized that future demand for uncrewed systems (UxS) will strain the capacity of the defense industrial base (DIB)...

Managing Risk in Globalized Supply Chains

This report addresses the challenges the U.S. Air Force faces in mitigating the risks associated with an increasingly globalized weapon supply chain a...

Federal Programs to Assist Military-to-Civilian Employment Transitions

Limited Scrutiny and Substantial Investment in Education Programs

This report identifies 45 federal military-to-civilian transition programs, the variety of benefits they provide, their costs, the most-expensive ones...