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Choosing policy responses to mitigate greenhouse gases (GHGs) is one of the great challenges that the United States faces. It will require balancing c...
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Operation Retrenchment Specter, a Workforce Futures Game
To weigh options in managing military personnel costs, the U.S. Air Force explores trade-offs in a workforce futures policy game that simulates the mo...
Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Use in U.S. Central Command
Intratheater airlift delivers critical and time-sensitive supplies, such as blood products for transfusions or repair parts for vehicles, to deployed ...
Intratheater airlift delivers critical and time-sensitive supplies to deployed forces. Traditionally, military aircraft have provided this airlift. Ho...
Summary of Findings and Recommendations
Between fiscal years 1996 and 2017, U.S. Air Force (USAF) spending on contractor logistics support (CLS) grew from 6 percent to 21 percent of aircraft...
"Prepared for the United States Air Force."...
The authors of this report evaluate the costs and benefits of maintenance manpower force structures in the U.S. Air Force that merge maintenance caree...
An Analytic Framework for Evaluating Costs and Trade-Offs
A new tool simulates how various Department of the Air Force personnel policy changes could affect military spending. The tool lets users view cost va...
Four appendixes contain data processing details, technical details and supplemental tables for recruiter characteristics, details and tables for the a...
The Los Angeles area has the most severe traffic congestion in the United States. Trends in many of the underlying causal factors suggest that congest...
A Systems Approach
This report shares efforts to develop decision support frameworks for assessing the costs and benefits of digital engineering in defense weapon system...
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...
Insights from an Industry Survey
Although the benefits of digital engineering might not be immediately apparent in terms of cost savings or schedule reduction, survey results indicate...
"To help the Air Force better anticipate cost and schedule challenges and manage programs throughout their life cycles, this study developed a methodo...
Developing Prototype Approaches to Estimate Risk Reduction Across Security Missions
The U.S. Air Force (USAF) Security Forces (SF) are responsible for detecting, deterring, denying, and defeating security threats in both garrison and ...
Capabilities, Needs, and Management Options for NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate asked RAND to assess flight research capabilities and needs, and to identify management options that w...
To summarize trends and identify factors contributing to bid protest activity and outcomes in Air Force procurements, the authors assembled data from ...