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F-22a Multiyear Procurement Program: an Assessment of Cost Savings
Congress asked RAND for an independent review of whether the estimated savings from proposed multiyear contracts for 60 F-22A aircraft over three years would yield the promised …
Australia's Naval Shipbuilding Enterprise
To prepare for its next Defence White Paper, Australia is examining an enterprise-level naval shipbuilding plan. To support this effort, RAND researchers explore the feasibility of …
Implications of an Air Force Budget Downturn on the Aircraft Industrial Base
The U.S. Air Force is facing a number of challenges as a result of the current defense budget downturn along with the uncertainty of its timing and magnitude. RAND examined the …
Learning from Experience
This volume presents a set of lessons learned from Australia's Collins submarine program that could help inform future program managers. Collins was the first submarine built in …
Joint Precision Approach and Landing System Nunn-Mccurdy Breach Root Cause Analysis and Portfolio Assessment Metrics for DOD Weapons Systems
The report contains two analyses. First, the authors examine the cause of a Nunn-McCurdy unit cost breach of the Joint Precision Approach and Landing System Inc. 1A major defense …
Why Has the Cost of Fixed-wing Aircraft Risen?
This report explores why, in recent decades, military fixed-wing aircraft costs have escalated beyond the rates of commonly used inflation indices, examining both economy-driven …
The Royals Navy's New Generation Type 45 Destroyer Acquisition Options and Implications
This book describes an analysis of strategies for the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defense to take in acquiring the TYpe 45, a new generation destroyer that will become a main …
The Technology Promotion and Protection Decision Tool
The U.S. government has developed hundreds of approaches to promote and protect critical technologies and their associated industrial base, and the sheer number and diversity of …
U.S. Navy Shipyards
RAND investigated cost-effective workforce-management strategies, alternative workload allocations, and the relevant best practices of comparable organizations to assist the Navy …
Are Ships Different? Policies and Procedures for the Acquisition Ofship Programs
Department of Defense policies, procedures, and organizations for program management and oversight of defense acquisition programs do not align well with shipbuilding. Ship …
Historical Cost Growth of Completed Weapon System Programs
Our analysis shows that the Department of Defense (DoD) and the military departments have generally underestimated the cost of buying new weapon systems and that this growth is …
Establishing a Sovereign Guided Weapons Enterprise for Australia
The authors describe the relevance of five international case studies in relation to Australia's creation of a Sovereign Guided Weapons Enterprise, identified as a key priority by …