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To determine whether the industrial base for the U.S. domestic coal-based electricity generation industry can maintain the capability to design, const...
An Empirical Analysis
Managers of weapon system acquisition programs and their staffs have often voiced concerns about the burden of complying with federal statutes or regu...
The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics asked RAND to evaluate the cost of compliance with acquisition...
The time required to divine and develop a new weapon system is an important element of the overall acquisition process. This study identifies the majo...
Contrasting and Common Impressions from the Contractor Teams and Joint Program Office
The Arsenal Ship acquisition program was unique in two respects: it represented a new operational concept for Navy weapon systems, and its management ...
All major weapon system programs establish a program baseline early in the acquistion cycle which sets forth cost, schedule, and performance targets. ...
We conducted this assessment by performing a detailed examination of 21 projects, comprising about one-third of the total population that had accumula...
The Navy Experience with Military Specifications and Standards Reform
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Policies and Procedures for the Acquisition of Ship Programs
Department of Defense policies, procedures, and organizations for program management and oversight of defense acquisition programs do not align well w...
As part of a research effort to identify and analyze the range of system and subsystem prototyping strategies available to the Department of Defense a...
In the constrained budget environment of recent years, the Department of Defense (DoD) has placed increasing emphasis on enhancing installation & infr...
Doing Data Right in Weapon System Acquisition
This report examines Department of Defense acquisition data and the information systems where it resides and offers insights into improving the manage...
DoD is the largest single energy using organization in the U.S. Achieving DoD's energy conservation goals has become increasingly important in a tight...
Cost Growth Analysis Using Selected Acquisition Reports
This report documents the contents of the DSCPD; the authors discuss data sources, database structure, adjustments and normalization procedures used i...
For the last decade, the U.S. Army has quickly acquired systems for war. By examining the nontraditional methods used, this study examines how the Arm...
Global Hawk and Darkstar ; Their Advanced Concept, Technology Demonstration, Program Experience ; Executive Summary
In 1994, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and theDefense Airborne Reconnaissance Office launched a joint initiative with thegoal to overc...
Cost growth in weapon system development, one result of the inherent risk of developing advanced systems, has been a prevalent problem for many years....
The Department of Defense can more effectively harness commercially developed technologies through policies that incentivize and improve coordination ...
RAND researchers assess the knowledge, tools, and capabilities needed by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition workforce to infuse environm...
The Department of Defense (DoD) faces a difficult cleanup challenge, with thousands of sites at active and closing installations and formerly used def...
Phase II Experience
The U.S. military's development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has been hampered by cost overruns, schedule slippage, and disappointing operationa...
Given present trends toward reduced force size and equipment buys, there is some concern about whether the military aircraft industry will be able to ...
Executive Summary
Acquisition data underpin the management and oversight of the U.S. defense acquisition portfolio. However, balancing security and transparency has bee...
Over the past three decades, a number of attempts have been made to develop unmanned aerial vehicles, but many of these efforts have met with suboptim...
Policy and Practice
Issues with Access to Acquisition Data and Information in the Department of Defense finds that the process for gaining access to data is inefficient a...
A Closer Look at the Origins and Implementation of Controlled Unclassified Information Labels and Security Policy
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Global Hawk and Darkstar ; Flight Test in the HAE UAV ACTD Program
The past three decades have seen a number of less-than-successful efforts to develop high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles. In 1994, the Defense Adva...
"Regulations and guidance have permitted tailoring of the acquisition process as one of many ways in which the acquisition workforce can more efficien...
The history of joint acquisition programs in the U.S. Department of Defense reveals varied outcomes -- some positive, some negative. Joint program man...
Congressional concern with cost overruns, or breaches of Nunn-McCurdy thresholds, in several major defense acquisition programs led the authors, in a ...
A Series on Considerations for Managing Program Data in the Emerging Acquisition Environment
This research identifies and describes some of the issues related to managing acquisition program information in the emerging acquisition environment ...
The past three decades have seen a number of less-than-successfulefforts to develop high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles. In 1994, theDefense Advanc...
A new approach to environmental management is rapidly evolving in a number of large, successful commercial firms. The Department of Defense (DoD) has ...
Issues, Options, and Trade-Offs
Mosaic Warfare envisions more fractionated, heterogeneous forces, dynamically composed on tactical timelines. In this report, the authors present insi...