Frank Camm

What the Army Needs to Know to Align Its Operational and Institutional Activities

The Army must transform its institutional activities to align them with operating forces to improve support and release resources from institutional a...

What the Army Needs to Know to Align Its Operational and Institutional Activities

Executive Summary

The Army must transform its institutional activities to align them with operating forces to improve support and release resources from institutional a...

Strategic Choices for a Turbulent World

In Pursuit of Security and Opportunity

This report is the last of a six-volume series in which RAND explores the elements of a national strategy for the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. It a...

Producing Liquid Fuels from Coal

Prospects and Policy Issues

Large U.S. coal reserves and viable technology make promising a domestic industry producing liquid fuels from coal. Weighing benefits, costs, and envi...

A Separate Space

Creating a Military Service for Space

As the United States creates the Space Force as a service within the Department of the Air Force, RAND assessed which units to bring into the Space Fo...

Federal Financial Incentives to Induce Early Experience Producing Unconventional Liquid Fuels

The government, as a principal, may seek to induce a private investor, as an agent, to build and operate an unconventional-oil production plant to pro...

Analyzing the Operation of Performance-based Accountability Systems for Public Services

Empirical evidence of the effects of performance-based public management is scarce. This report describes a framework used to organize available empir...

Prototyping Using Other Transactions

Case Studies for the Acquisition Community

Through literature reviews, interviews, and case studies, researchers reviewed recent U.S. Air Force experience in using other transactions for protot...

History of the Fairfax

A Military Retirement Community

With over 500 residents, The Fairfax is a thriving community that offers retired military officers and their spouses gracious living arrangements. But...

A New Methodology for Conducting Product Support Business Case Analysis (BCA)

With Illustrations from the F-22 Product Support BCA

This document explains how to apply guidance on project evaluation to product support business case analyses in a way that allows senior Department of...

Toward a Culture of Consequences

Performance-based Accountability Systems for Public Services : Executive Summary

Performance-based accountability systems (PBASs) link incentives to measured performance to improve public services. This report explores PBAS design ...

How Should the Army Use Contractors on the Battlefield?

Assessing Comparative Risk in Sourcing Decisions

Can the Army improve the way it measures the risks of using civilian contractors in combat? This report proposes a method for comparing the "residual ...

Analysis of Technology Innovator Industrial Base for JCREW 3. 3

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Government Accountability Office Bid Protests in Air Force Source Selections

Evidence and Options--Executive Summary

Recent bid protests have caused large disruptions in resource and operational planning in the Air Force, even leading to the cancellation of the Comba...

Improving Acquisition to Support the Space Enterprise Vision

The Space Enterprise Vision (SEV), developed jointly by Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) and the National Reconnaissance Office in 2015, describes an i...

Managing Intellectual Property Relevant to Operating and Sustaining Major U.S. Air Force Weapon Systems

The authors identify opportunities to improve policy on technical data, data rights, and intellectual property associated with operating and sustainin...

A Review of Alternative Methods to Inventory Contracted Services in the Department of Defense

Concerned about U.S. Department of Defense contracts for private-sector services, Congress mandated development of an inventory of contract activities...

A Clean Sheet Approach to Space Acquisition in Light of the New Space Force

The authors describe an unconstrained ?clean sheet? approach to space acquisition for the U.S. Space Force designed around the unique mission and call...