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Rethinking How the Air Force Views Sustainment Surge
This book analyzes the interpretation, transformation, and future of the U.S. Air Force's ongoing surge requirements. "Sustainment surge" describes the increase in weapon systems …
Improving the Cost Estimation of Space Systems
Why have the costs of acquiring space systems been so high? What are the sources of the problem? To answer these questions, RAND undertook an extensive study of two space systems - …
Improving Intelligence Support to the Future Warfighter
Given new and increasingly sophisticated threats from peer and near-peer adversaries, the authors provide an analysis of intelligence support to the U.S. Air Force acquisition …
Historic Preservation in Indiana
Over the last half century, historic preservation has been on the rise in American cities and towns, from urban renewal and gentrification projects to painstaking restoration of …
The Air Force's Experience with Should-Cost Reviews and Options for Enhancing its Capability to Conduct Them
Ensuring Mission Assurance While Conducting Rapid Space Acquisition
As the U.S. Space Force (USSF) pursues rapid acquisition of warfighting capabilities, a key question is whether the streamlining techniques being used to get new space systems to …
Final Assembly and Checkout Alternatives for the Joint Strike Fighter
Analyzes alternative strategies for final assembly and checkout of the Joint Strike Fighter. (PW/CC); The Department of Defense asked RAND to examine alternatives for the final …
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 activities. This document …
Managing Air Force Joint Expeditionary Taskings in an Uncertain Environment
Since 2004, the U.S. Air Force has provided personnel for joint sourcing solution assignments in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a result, certain Air Force career fields are experiencing …
Price-based Acquisition
Analysis of findings from case studies and structured interviews focused on determining the potential benefits and challenges of using price-based acquisition for Department of …
The United Kingdom's Naval Shipbuilding Industrial Base
Assesses whether shipyards, other naval firms, and suppliers in the United Kingdom have sufficient capacity to meet the demands of the Ministry of Defence's construction of new …
A Methodology for Comparing Costs and Benefits of Management Alternatives for F-22 Sustainment
The U.S. Air Force asked RAND Project AIR FORCE to perform a congressionally required assessment of contractor versus organic management of F-22 air vehicle and F119 engine …