Research insights into aircraft selection and maintenance, crew training, test facilities, and airspace access are valuable to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and U.S. and allied air forces. RAND studies have also examined military air power and aerospace industry issues.
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Summarizes the major research findings regarding the HAE UAV ACTD program's acquisition strategy.
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An Economic Framework for Evaluating Military Aircraft Replacement
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Assesses how rapidly the Army's new medium-weight Stryker Brigade can be deployed by air or sealift from planned bases in the United States versus forward bases in key regions and explores how rapidly large U.S. forces need to deploy.
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This briefing reports findings on whether warranty recovery firms could be employed effectively to assist the armed forces with their warranty claims for aircraft engines.
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Addresses the effect of that acquisition strategy on the flight test program of the two air vehicles: the conventional Global Hawk and the low-observable DarkStar.
Research Brief
Summary of "Aerospace Operations Against Elusive Ground Targets," which seeks to identify concepts and technologies that could improve the United States Air Force's capability to detect, classify, recognize, and defeat elusive targets.
Commentary
Published commentary by RAND staff.
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Ranges and airspace for Air Force training purposes are scarce resources. RAND and the Air Combat Command developed an analytic structure containing a joint mission framework, training requirements, infrastructure requirements, and the current infrastructure
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This report examines the package of new tools and techniques known as lean production to see if it would enable aircraft manufacturers to produce new weapon systems at costs below those predicted by historical cost estimating models.
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Ranges and airspace for Air Force training purposes are scarce resources for which the Air Force must present a rigorously defensible claim.
Journal Article
Options for Jet Engine Intermediate Maintenance (JEIM) structures for F100 engines on F-15 and F-16 aircraft and TF-34 engines on A-10 aircraft.
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This report examines the origin and nature of the United States Air Force peacetime pilot shortage along with retention issues, and shows that the real problem is experience levels in operational units.
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Explores the extent to which the United States can now rely on air-delivered precision weapons in lieu of ground forces to achieve strategic objectives and minimize American casualties.
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The Dutch National Aviation Administration asked RAND Europe to consider the managerial and societal feasibility of a new model to calculate the external risk from aviation accidents around airports.
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This report aids the U.S. Air Force in addressing a potential vulnerability of its in-theater bases: highly accurate attacks against USAF aircraft on parking ramps made possible by the proliferation of GPS guidance and submunition warhead technologies.
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The High Altitude Endurance UAV (HAE UAV) joint program incorporates several innovative elements in its acquisition strategy that depart radically from traditional acquisition approaches.
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Drawing on more than two decades of RAND research and focusing primarily on fighter aviation, Lambeth shows how air power in Russia has steadily withered away since the breakup of the USSR.
Journal Article
Examines options the Air Force might consider for F-15 avionics maintenance to work toward achieving EAF goals.
Research Brief
Suggests that the dramatic contraction of the aerospace industry may indeed jeopardize the future design and production of innovative and cost-effective military fighter aircraft.
Research Brief
Focused on understanding how the acquisition innovations have affected program outcomes so far and on identifying lessons learned that might be applied to improve DoD acquisition strategies.
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