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The U.S. Combat Aircraft Industry 1909-2000 Structure, Competition, Innovation
Drawing on primary and secondary sources on the aircraft industry, this report provides a brief survey of industry structure, innovation, and competition in the U.S. fixed-wing …

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 - …

Going Global? U.S. Government Policy and the Defense Aerospace Industry
An examination of the effects of consolidation and globalization on the aerospace defense industry. The increasing consolidation of the defense aerospace industry, brought about by …

Government Accountability Office Bid Protests in Air Force Source Selections

F-35 Block Buy--An Assessment of Potential Savings
This appendix discusses historical implementation of multiyear procurement (MYP) and block buy (BB) contracts and how they compare. As context for an analysis of potential savings …

Evolutionary Acquisition
This monograph presents findings of a RAND Project AIR FORCE research project documenting lessons learned by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and other Department of Defense (DoD) cost …

A Review of Selected International Aircraft Spares Pooling Programs
Development of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter was shared by the United States (for the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps), Australia, Canada, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, …

Program Characteristics That Contribute to Cost Growth
This report evaluates four recent Air Force Major Defense Acquisition Programs with low cost growth and compares and contrasts their key characteristics to the six programs …

Troubled Partnership
The United States has generally tried to discourage its allies from developing their own major weapons systems, to promote equipment standardization with U.S. forces, and tie …

Extreme Cost Growth
Examines conditions present in six U.S. Air Force Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAPs) experiencing extreme cost growth, using case study analysis. This report is a companion …

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 …

Across The Board: The Modern Architecture Behind an Effective Board of Directors
"E = mc2 was a powerful equation that brought order to the interrelationship of mass and energy. It took one stroke from a genius to bring a higher-order perception of the …