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The Air Force and other Defense Department entities conduct a host of security cooperation activities with partner air forces. However, there is currently no process for systematically tracking all these programs and activities. This report supplies Air Force planners with more-accessible information about resources for security cooperation, the rules that govern their use, and their application methods.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR981.html Sep 12, 2011 Sep 12, 2011

To effectively confront the threat of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the United States relies on the will and capacity of international partners for assistance. It requires international cooperation, including security cooperation programs to enhance partner capacity. Assessing the impact of these efforts is inherently difficult. This report demonstrates how one assessment framework can be applied to these programs.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG815.html Apr 1, 2009 Apr 1, 2009

<p>The findings presented here reexamine capabilities-based programming by introducing a new definition of capability metrics and a new set of algorithms for building and evaluating programs. The tools provide the programmer with a means to quantitatively and reproducibly develop programming options in light of an uncertain future, serving as a means to express capabilities and risks of resource allocations in terms of national planning objectives.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG563.html Jul 31, 2007 Jul 31, 2007

<p>The problem of multinational force compatibility requires a planning framework to guide the U.S. Army&rsquo;s investments with partner armies. This report defines the Niche Capability Planning Framework, which provides a conceptual template for integrating the various considerations implicit in a strategy for cultivating compatible niche capabilities in armies that lack a stable, long-term, collaborative program of assistance with the U.S. Army.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG303.html Feb 17, 2006 Feb 17, 2006

<p>The Department of Defense in recent years has shifted from threat-based planning to structuring its forces to provide a range of capabilities. As such, the need has arisen for new methods to assess the Air Force&rsquo;s manpower and materiel deployment capabilities. The authors outline a method for assessing Air and Space Expeditionary Force capabilities given certain policies and resource levels, and they illustrate how this method can contribute to the capabilities-based planning environment.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG176.html Aug 13, 2004 Aug 13, 2004

<p>The Air Force&#8217;s transition from a threat-based to a capabilities-based planning posture suggests the need to calculate swiftly the manpower and equipment required to generate those capabilities. This book outlines just such a methodology for determining deployment requirements. The methodology employs a prototype research tool&#8211;the Strategic Tool for the Analysis of Required Transportation (START)&#8211;which generates lists of capability units required to support a user-specified operation. The appendix serves as a user&#8217;s guide to the START program.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1576.html Jan 1, 2003 Jan 1, 2003

<p>The collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War &mdash; and then the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 &mdash; transformed the task of American foreign and defense policymaking. This book outlines the dimensions of that transformation and sketches new tools for dealing with the policy challenges-from modeling and gaming, to planning based on capabilities rather than threats, to personnel planning and making use of &ldquo;best practices&rdquo; from the private sector.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1513.html Apr 29, 2002 Apr 29, 2002

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

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

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

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<em>Senior Physical Scientist</em><br>Ph.D. in geology, University of California, Berkeley