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Funding Ammunition Ports — 2012
The U.S. Army's two ammunition ports -- Military Ocean Terminal Concord and Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point -- have different funding approaches and accounting systems, and a central question is what the most appropriate financial structure should be.
Toward Affordable Systems III: Portfolio Management for Army Engineering and Manufacturing Development Programs — 2012
Expands and applies RAND's portfolio analysis and management (PortMan) method to address the problem of selecting U.S. Army engineering and manufacturing development projects to develop affordable systems in the face of cost and budget uncertainties.
Improving Army Basic Research: Report of an Expert Panel on the Future of Army Laboratories — 2012
Provides recommendations on how the Army can get the best long-term value from its investments in basic research.
What’s the Potential for Conflict with China, and How Can It Be Avoided? — 2012
Presents scenarios to illustrate possible sources of military conflict with China over the next thirty years.
RAND Arroyo Center Annual Report 2011 — 2012
Describes the full range of research products and services that RAND Arroyo Center provided to the Army leadership in FY 2011, including projects, quick-response studies, peer-reviewed publications, and the analytic training of Army officers.
Identifying Civilian Labor Market Realities for Army Officers Making Stay/Leave Decisions — 2012
This report describes the socioeconomic environment officers will encounter if they leave active-duty service and analyzes its potential impact on Army retention and how it can be effectively communicated to officers making stay/leave decisions.
Urban Warfare: The 2008 Battle for Sadr City — 2012
The authors identify factors critical to the coalition victory over Jaish al-Mahdi in the 2008 Battle of Sadr City and describe a new model for dealing with insurgent control of urban areas.
How Do Soldiers’ Deployments Affect Children’s Academic Performance and Behavioral Health? — 2012
With regard to Army families, the study examines the effects of long and frequent parental deployments on children’s academic performance as well as their emotional and behavioral well-being in the school setting.
Making Improvements to The Army Distributed Learning Program — 2012
Assesses the performance of The Army Distributed Learning Program (TADLP) and looks at ways to strengthen the Army's interactive multimedia instruction (IMI) program by improving both the quality of the product and the efficiency of the process.
Army Network-Enabled Operations: Expectations, Performance, and Opportunities for Future Improvements — 2012
The Army's staking much of its future battlefield success on the belief that units linked together with appropriate networks can dominate their adversaries by learning enemy locations and attacking with small arms fire and precision-guided munitions.



