RAND Arroyo Center Publications — Monographs/Technical Reports
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2012
Army Network-Enabled Operations: Expectations, Performance, and Opportunities for Future Improvements — March 13, 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.
Funding Ammunition Ports — May 9, 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.
Improving Army Basic Research: Report of an Expert Panel on the Future of Army Laboratories — April 18, 2012
Provides recommendations on how the Army can get the best long-term value from its investments in basic research.
Lightening Body Armor: Arroyo Support to the Army Response to Section 125 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 — March 7, 2012
Summarizes a congressionally directed study of how the weight of the body armor worn by combat soldiers in Afghanistan can be reduced.
Making Improvements to The Army Distributed Learning Program — March 28, 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.
Toward Affordable Systems III: Portfolio Management for Army Engineering and Manufacturing Development Programs — May 8, 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.
Hard Fighting: Israel in Lebanon and Gaza — January 19, 2012
The author examines the state of the Israeli military before the Second Lebanon War, the lessons it learned during that conflict, the reforms it undertook to address its deficiencies, and how it fared during Operation Cast Lead three years later.
Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Logistics Applications — January 25, 2012
Estimates the technical and operational feasibility and likely benefits of employing unmanned aircraft systems for various tasks in support of logistics operations.
