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Frank Camm

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Senior Economist

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Education

Ph.D. in economics, University of Chicago; A.B. in economics, Princeton University

Biography

Dr. Frank A. Camm, Jr. (Ph.D., Economics, University of Chicago) is a senior economist. He currently leads projects sponsored by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, and Office of the Secretary of Defense. The first seeks ways to improve the incentive environment present in major Air Force weapon system development programs. The second asks how to reduce barriers that discourage innovative, nontraditional sources from participating in U.S. efforts to develop countermeasures for radio-controlled improvised explosive devices. The third examines how changes in U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) spending on non-U.S. sources affect employment in the U.S. During his 29-year career at RAND, Dr. Camm has participated in a series of efforts to implement process changes in the Department of Defense. He led RAND's development of lean logistics and support of its implementation in the Air Force. He devised and tested metrics systems in Air Force depots and developed metrics systems for high-level oversight of Army logistics. He has studied best commercial practices in change management at first hand and developed ways to adapt these methods to the implementation of process changes in Air Force sourcing practice, DoD environmental management practice, and Army integration of its operational and institutional activities.

Research Focus

Defense resource management; sourcing and contract policy; government process and program assessment; process analysis; law and economics; organizational behavior; industrial organization

RAND Research Areas

Education

Recent Projects

  • Foreign sources in the U.S. defense industrial base
  • Decision rights in Air Force logistics
  • Policy for nonconventional fuels
  • Formal risk assessment in Air Force strategy planning

Selected Publications

Frank Camm, Federal Agencies Can Adapt Best Commercial Practice to Improve Their Acquisition of Services, RAND Corporation, 2006

Frank Camm and Victoria A. Greenfield, How Should the Army Use Contractors on the Battlefield? Assessing Comparative Risk in Sourcing Decisions, RAND Corporation, 2005

Victoria A. Greenfield and Frank Camm, Risk Management and Performance in the Balkans Support Contract, RAND Corporation, 2005

Frank Camm et al., What the Army Needs to Know to Align Its Operational and Institutional Activities, RAND Corporation, 2003

Research Focus

Process analysis; law and economics; organizational behavior; industrial organization; Defense resource management; sourcing and contracting policies and practices; energy and environmental policy

RAND Research Areas

Education

Recent Projects

  • How changes in the deployable part of the Army or Operating Force affect demand for services from the nondeployable Army Generating Force
  • Improving the use of formal risk assessment tools in Air Force strategic force planning
  • Improving Air Force source selection methods and use of award fees in major acquisitions
  • Enhancing the Navy's ability to attract innovative sources to its programs to counter radio-controlled improvised explosive devices
  • How Department of Defense use of foreign sources affects employment within the U.S.; empirical evidence on how well performance-based accountability systems work

Selected Publications

Frank Camm, James T. Bartis and Charles Bushman, Federal Financial Incentives to Induce Early Experience Producing Unconventional Liquid Fuels, RAND Corporation, 2008

Frank Camm, James T. Bartis, James David S. Ortiz, Producing liquid fuels from coal: prospects and policy issues, RAND Corporation, 2008

Frank Camm, David Kassing, R. William Thomas, Carolyn Wong, How Funding Instability Affects Army Programs, RAND Corporation, 2007

Frank Camm, Ralph Masi, Cynthia R. Cook, Anny Wong, What the Army Needs to Know to Align Its Operational and Institutional Activities., RAND Corporation, 2007

Research Focus

Defense resource management, sourcing and contract policy, government process and program assessment

Recent Projects

  • Foreign sources in the U.S. defense industrial base
  • Decision rights in Air Force logistics
  • Policy for nonconventional fuels
  • Formal risk assessment in Air Force strategy planning

Selected Publications

What the Army Needs to Know to Align Its Operational and Institutional Activities, Frank Camm et al., RAND Corporation, 2007

Federal Agencies Can Adapt Best Commercial Practice to Improve Their Acquisition of Services, RAND Corporation, 2006

How Should the Army Use Contractors on the Battlefield? Assessing Comparative Risk in Sourcing Decisions, Frank Camm and Victoria A. Greenfield, RAND Corporation, 2005

Risk Management and Performance in the Balkans Support Contract, Victoria A. Greenfield and Frank Camm, RAND Corporation, 2005

Recent Media Appearances

Interviews: Business Week; Christian Science Monitor; Federal Times

To arrange an interview:

Contact the RAND Office of Media Relations, (703) 413-1100, x5117 or (310) 451-6913, or send an email to media@rand.org.

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