Irv Blickstein

Small Ships in Theater Security Cooperation

The authors evaluate the use of small ships in theater security cooperation (TSC). They provide the U.S. Navy with a concept of operation for small sh...

Forks in the Road for the U.S. Navy

Are the points inthe future when the U.S. Navy would benefit from a change in direction?...

Root Cause Analyses of Nunn-McCurdy Breaches

The authors examine the Joint Precision Approach and Landing System Inc. 1A Nunn-McCurdy breach and document a methodology that can assess and summari...

DoD and Commercial Advanced Waveform Developments and Programs with Multiple Nunn-McCurdy Breaches

The report presents the results of two studies: The first compares the capabilities and development approaches used in the Joint Tactical Radio System...

Navy Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution

A Reference Guide for Senior Leaders, Managers, and Action Officers

This tool documents key but enduring aspects of how the Navy implements the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution process so that action off...

United States Navy Employment Options for Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs)

This report assesses in what ways and to what degree unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) are suitable for supporting U.S. Navy missions and functions. It...

U.S. Navy Employment Options for Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs)

Assesses in what ways and to what degree unmanned surface vehicles are suitable for supporting U.S. Navy missions and functions....

Root Cause Analyses of Nunn-McCurdy Breaches

DoD and Commercial Advanced Waveform Developments and Programs with Multiple Nunn-McCurdy Breaches. Vol. 5

Congressional concern with cost overruns, or breaches, in several major defense acquisition programs led the authors, in a partnership with the Perfor...

Root Cause Analyses of Nunn-McCurdy Breaches

Compares aspects of the Joint Tactical Radio System network domain program with similar elements for the commercial long-term evolution waveform and a...

Baselining Defense Acquisition

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) aims to improve mission effectiveness and efficiency. In support of this effort, the Office of the Secretary of D...

Methodologies in Analyzing the Root Causes of Nunn-McCurdy Breaches

Congressional concern with cost overruns, or breaches, in several major defense acquisition programs led the authors, in a partnership with the Perfor...

Management Perspectives Pertaining to Root Cause Analyses of Nunn-McCurdy Breaches, Volume 4

Program Manager Tenure, Oversight of Acquisition Category II Programs, and Framing Assumptions

Concerned with cost overruns in programs that breached Nunn-McCurdy thresholds, Congress directed investigation of the root causes of these overruns, ...

Domestic Trends in the United States, China, and Iran

The U.S. Navy faces uncertainty about the degree to which it will have to prepare for a high-end future conflict versus the so-called Long War. To hel...

Root Cause Analyses of Nunn-McCurdy Breaches: Excalibur artillery projectile and the Navy Enterprise Resource Planning Program : with an approach to analyzing program complexity and risk

Congressional concern with cost overruns, or breaches, in several major defense acquisition programs led the authors, in a partnership with the Perfor...

Recent Large Service Acquisitions in the Department of Defense

Lessons for the Office of the Secretary of Defense

Findings of a study on policy issues relevant to large service acquisitions. Six case studies representing a range of new approaches are used to ident...

Gap Analysis and Alternatives Analysis of the Coast Guard Cost Estimating Workforce

"This Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center report assesses the capabilities of the current Coast Guard cost-estimating workforce; identifies ...

Assessing Bid Protests of U.S. Department of Defense Procurements

Identifying Issues, Trends, and Drivers

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 called for a study of "the prevalence and impact of bid protests on DoD acquisitions," inc...

A Preliminary Investigation of Ship Acquisition Options for Joint Forcible Entry Operations

The current strategy for U.S. naval power is embodied in "Sea Power 21,"' which would integrate naval forces for global joint operations against regio...

A Preliminary Analysis of Advance Appropriations as a Budgeting Method for Navy Ship Procurements

A companion piece to MR-1526 that examines the pros and cons of applying advance appropriations across a broader segment of the Navy shipbuilding prog...

Root Cause Analyses of Nunn-McCurdy Breaches: Excalibur artillery projectile and the Navy Enterprise Resource Planning Program : with an approach to analyzing program complexity and risk

Congressional concern with cost overruns, or breaches of Nunn-McCurdy thresholds, in several major defense acquisition programs led the authors, in a ...

Root Cause Analyses of Nunn-McCurdy Breaches

Congressional concern with cost overruns, or breaches, in several major defense acquisition programs led the authors, in a partnership with the Perfor...

Root Cause Analyses of Nunn-McCurdy Breaches: Program manager tenure, oversight of acquisition category II programs, and framing assumptions

Congressional concern with cost overruns, or breaches, in several major defense acquisition programs led the authors, in a partnership with the Perfor...

A Preliminary Analysis of Advance Appropriations as a Budgeting Method for Navy Ship Procurements

The Navy shipbuilding program typically comprises a few individually very expensive projects, together with an irregular schedule of new starts. Such ...

Proposed Analytical Products for the Air Force Warfighting Integration Capability

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...