2012-05-10T18:02:55Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/about/people/p/peltz_eric.html http://www.rand.org/commentary/2008/06/05/Forbes.html 2008-06-05T20:58:00Z 2008-06-05T20:58:00Z

The 1991 Gulf War represented the pinnacle of the U.S. industrial approach to warfare: overwhelming mass. Subsequently, the U.S. military began the shift to a new support paradigm, adapting the lean, best practices of contemporary business, write Eric Peltz and Rick Eden.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG344.html 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Describes how Army forces were sustained with materiel during Operation Iraqi Freedom, examines how well this support performed, and discusses the effects on operations, emphasizing the period from the start of ground combat to the fall of Baghdad.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG342.html 2005-12-13T11:34:00Z 2005-12-13T11:34:00Z

Describes how well the Department of Defense logistics system supported Army forces in Operation Iraqi Freedom, documents the major reasons for shortfalls in performance, provides recommendations for improvement, and points to questions raised with respect to the design of future forces.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG238.html 2004-10-28T14:40:00Z 2004-10-28T14:40:00Z

Defines metrics to evaluate the Army’s process for returning and repairing reparable spare parts.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR286.html 2005-10-24T13:29:00Z 2005-10-24T13:29:00Z

Examines the relationship between equipment age and spare part costs for M1 Abrams tanks.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1577.html 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Assesses how the Army should define equipment sustainment requirements, what methods and tools equipment developers might need to use these requirements effectively, and their merit as key performance parameters.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1481.html 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Equipment Downtime Analyzer provides an integrated set of metrics that tie equipment sustainment and reliability to equipment readiness.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1108.html 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Velocity management has brought a new way of doing business to U.S. Army logistics, with a renewed focus on the Army customer and a powerful approach for process improvement that cuts across three critical performance dimensions: time, ...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB3039.html 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Army's Transformation and new operational concepts put a premium on ''equipment sustainability,'' the ability to keep weapon systems available during operations.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB3030.html 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

To help improve the Army's understanding of equipment readiness, RAND Arroyo Center researchers have developed a management and analysis tool that is the focus of a new report, Diagnosing the Army's Equipment Readiness: The Equipment Downtime Analyzer (EDA).

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB3026.html 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Develop a new algorithm for calculating inventory levels in SSAs. Known as dollar cost banding (DCB), the new algorithm has produced immediate and significant gains in performance at little or no additional inventory cost.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB3032.html 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9091.html 2005-11-25T10:11:00Z 2005-11-25T10:11:00Z

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB59.html 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We examine alternatives that eliminate or reduce AIS deployments by providing spare-parts replenishments to FOLs through distribution rather than local repair, comparing these alternatives both to each other and to the current system.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB3041.html 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB3042.html 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/CT223.html 2004-12-21T12:12:00Z 2004-12-21T12:12:00Z

Testimony presented to the House Armed Services Committee on March 24, 2004.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1271.html 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather than choose between distribution-based and supply-based logistics system designs, the Army, in conjunction with its joint supply-chain partners, should seek optimal, balanced systems that it can adapt quickly to changing conditions.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1272.html 2007-12-19T10:44:00Z 2007-12-19T10:44:00Z

This article explains how the Army has been able to achieve historically high levels of performance in its tactical inventories of repair parts by applying a series of RAND-developed process and algorithm improvements.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1789.html 2004-01-01T12:05:17Z 2004-01-01T12:05:17Z

Assesses the relationship between tank age and the mission-critical failure rate for the Army's M1 Abrams tank.