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A History of U.S.-Japan Collaboration on the Fs-X Fighter
During World War II, Japanese fighters, such as the famed Zero, were among the most respected and feared combat aircraft in the world. But for decades...
Structure, Competition, Innovation
Drawing on primary and secondary sources on the aircraft industry, this report provides a brief survey of industry structure, innovation, and competit...
A Half Century of U.S. Fighter Aircraft R&D
The proposition that innovation is critical in the cost-effective design and development of successful military aircraft is still subject to some deba...
This report examines the relationship between U.S. casualties and public support for U.S. military intervention in Korea and Vietnam, and concludes th...
An Assessment of U.S.-Japan Collaboration on the FS-X Fighter
The United States has generally tried to discourage its allies from developing their own major weapons systems, to promote equipment standardization w...
U.S. Government Policy and the Defense Aerospace Industry
The increasing consolidation of the defense aerospace industry, brought about by post-Cold War reductions in defense authorizations, has led to the pr...
History of Us-Japan Collaboration on the Fs-X Fighter
Assessing the Next-generation European Fighters
Three new European fighters will probably be highly competitive with existing U.S. fighters and be developed, procured, and sold outside of Europe. Th...
A Half Century of Fighter Aircraft R&D
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The European Experience
Since the mid-1970s the United States has advocated U.S.-European weapons procurement cooperation to promote increased NATO equipment rationalization,...
Implementation Challenges for Defense Space Programs
"So far, EA implementation of military space programs has produced mixed results. The capabilities and requirements definition and management processe...
The Role of Experience
The authors conclude that relevant experience does, indeed, matter--firms develop valuable system-specific knowledge in ongoing work, and experience i...
Future Directions in Japanese Security Policies
This report assesses how changes in the domestic, regional, and international environments are likely to affect future Japanese security policies and ...
A number of analyses have recently been conducted in efforts to update technical cost models and cost estimating relationships for fixed-wing combat a...
The Navy Experience with Military Specifications and Standards Reform
"Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."...
Technical Appendixes on Methodology
These appendixes explain the methodology used in an analysis of the costs and savings of joint aircraft acquisition programs. They illustrate calculat...
Provides insights on possible results of international collaboration on weapons procurement programs....
In the past 50 years, the U.S. Department of Defense has pursued numerous joint aircraft programs, the largest and most recent of which is the F-35 Jo...
Themes from Six U.S. Air Force Major Defense Acquisition Programs
"Prepared for the United States Air Force."...
Approaches for Speeding Delivery of Defense Capabilities
The authors analyze various approaches to speed acquisition of military capabilities and keep pace with evolving threats, assess these approaches' sui...
The French Experience in Africa
Appendix B, Historical Case Studies of Multiyear Procurement and Block Buy Contracts
"Prepared for the United States Air Force"--Title page....
Commercial Approaches to Weapons Acquisition
Civil-military integration (CMI) lies at the core of current DoD efforts to reduce the costs of procuring and maintaining modern weapon systems. Based...
This report analyzes whether multi-service joint aircraft acquisition programs actually save Life Cycle Cost, and the implications that joint fighter ...
Rafale, EAP, Lavi, and Gripen
This report surveys and compares the approaches to prototyping adopted by four countries--Great Britain, France, Israel, and Sweden--during the develo...
A Comparison of Air Force Major Defense Acquisition Programs
"This report is a companion report to an earlier report, which identified the main characteristics of six recent U.S. Air Force acquisition programs w...
This report presents findings from a research study conducted by RAND Project AIR FORCE, a division of the RAND Corporation, to examine the effects of...
An Assessment of Potential Savings
"In 2015, the United States and partner governments in the F-35 program began considering the use of a three-year block buy (BB) contract for procurem...
A Strategy Option
American defense analysts have recently displayed new interest in a strategic option that invokes a potential for conducting nonnuclear, limited-objec...
This report examines the likely evolution of the tactical fighter/attack force structures, mission priorities, and capabilities of the Allied European...