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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 …
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 - …
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 …
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 …
Qatar's School Transportation System
In consideration of the many challenges associated with Qatar's continued growth and demographic changes, the government of Qatar is interested in updating its school …
Ending F22a Production
In April 2009, the Department of Defense decided to terminate production of the F-22A Raptor. In advance of the decision, the Air Force asked RAND Project AIR FORCE to identify the …
Military Airframe Costs
One-liner: Analyzes the effects of materials and manufacturing techniques on airframe costs and explores the implications of these effects on acquisition policy. In recent years, a …
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 …
Impossible Certainty
Cost analysts must predict-sometimes very far-into the future how much money the military will spend on weapon systems. But these analysts do not have perfect knowledge about …
Improving Defense Acquisition
In this report, researchers describe overarching trends that affect defense acquisition, outline challenges in the defense acquisition process, and suggest improvements that might …
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 …
Test and Evaluation Trends and Costs for Aircraft and Guided Weapons
The authors examine the effects on cost of various trends in test and evaluation for certain military systems.