Capabilities Based Planning

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Capabilities-based planning enables military agencies to identify program needs, allocate resources, and track activities and outcomes. RAND develops methodologies and tools such as this to assist the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, and other defense agencies in evaluating their manpower, equipment, cooperative relationships with military partners, and other capabilities.

Research conducted by: RAND Arroyo Center; RAND National Security Research Division; RAND Project AIR FORCE

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Capabilities-Based Planning Can Enhance Energy Security at DoD Installations — Feb 20, 2013

Energy security strategies are needed because DoD installations rely on the U.S. commercial electricity grid which is vulnerable to disruption from natural hazards and actor-induced outages, such as physical or cyber attacks.

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Improving Air Force Depot Programming by Linking Resources to Capabilities — Nov 21, 2012

Depot purchased equipment maintenance (DPEM) funds the bulk of the work done at Air Force depots that does not involve the repair of spares or work on modification programs. This report analyzes how to better program for DPEM.

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Bridging the Gap: Prototype Tools to Support Local Disaster Preparedness Planning and Collaboration — Oct 12, 2012

RAND researchers developed an initial prototype tool to help determine capabilities and resources a locality will likely require during a disaster. The report also describes two social networking tools for local coordination of disaster preparedness.

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Integrating the Full Range of Security Cooperation Programs into Air Force Planning: An Analytic Primer — Sep 29, 2011

Supplies Air Force planners with information about resources for security cooperation, the rules that govern their use, and their application methods.

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Assessing the Effectiveness of the International Counterproliferation Program — Sep 12, 2011

Addressing the threat of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction requires interagency and international cooperation. This report demonstrates how one assessment framework can be applied to security cooperation programs.

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Bridging the Gap: Developing a Tool to Support Local Civilian and Military Disaster Preparedness — Apr 12, 2010

This report describes the current policy context for domestic all-hazards risk-informed capabilities-based planning by local military and civilian authorities and provides a framework for a local planning support tool for their use.

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Assessing Capabilities and Risks in Air Force Programming: Framework, Metrics, and Methods — Apr 1, 2009

A method for capabilities-based programming is developed to assist the programming of a wide range of resources in light of an uncertain future, expressing capabilities and risks of resource allocations in terms of national planning objectives.

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A Capabilities-Based Strategy for Army Security Cooperation — Jul 31, 2007

In the context of multinational force compatibility, this report defines the Niche Capability Planning Framework, which is intended to guide and focus the U.S. Army's long-term compatibility investments with partner armies of varying capabilities.

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Supporting Air and Space Expeditionary Forces: Capabilities and Sustainability of Air and Space Expeditionary Forces — Feb 17, 2006

Presents a method for assessing Air and Space Expeditionary Force manpower and materiel deployment capabilities and a detailed description of software tools developed by RAND for quantifying deployment capabilities.

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Supporting Air and Space Expeditionary Forces: A Methodology for Determining Air Force Deployment Requirements — Aug 13, 2004

Describes a prototype research tool for determining manpower and equipment deployment requirements.

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New Challenges, New Tools for Defense Decisionmaking — Jan 1, 2003

Addresses the new challenges for defense policy in a world transformed by the end of the Cold War and then the war on terrorism, and sketches new analytic techniques for framing particular defense issues.

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Analytic Architecture for Capabilities-Based Planning, Mission-System Analysis, and Transformation — Apr 29, 2002

Analytic Architecture for Capabilities-Based Planning, Mission-System Analysis, and Transformation

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Paul K. Davis

Senior Principal Researcher, RAND; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. in chemical physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; B.S., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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Patrick Mills

Senior Operations Research Analyst; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
B.A. and M.S. in industrial engineering, Texas Tech

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Constantine Samaras

Engineer; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. in engineering and public policy and civil and environmental engineering, Carnegie Mellon University; M.P.A. in public policy, New York University; B.S. in civil engineering, Bucknell University

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Don Snyder

Senior Physical Scientist
Ph.D. in geology, University of California, Berkeley

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