Military Budgets and Defense Spending

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The portion of the national budget that is allocated to defense covers salaries, training, and health care; maintains and purchases arms, equipment, and facilities; funds military operations; and funds the development of new technologies. RAND analyzes defense expenditures and advises military and civilian decisionmakers on options to maximize the effectiveness, continuity, and innovation of the nation's military force.

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

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Report

The F100 Engine Purchasing and Supply Chain Management Demonstration: Findings from Air Force Spend Analyses — Dec 6, 2006

Describes spend analyses drawn from a purchasing and supply management demonstration for purchases of F100 spare parts and repair services.

Report

Why Has The Cost of Navy Ships Risen? A Macroscopic Examination of the Trends in U.S. Naval Ship Costs Over the Past Several Decades — Apr 20, 2006

Examines why the increases in acquisition cost for U.S. naval ships have outpaced the rate of inflation over the past several decades.

Commentary

A Far too Costly Pentagon — Feb 27, 2006

Published commentary by RAND staff: A Far too Costly Pentagon, in United Press International.

Report

Acquisition and Competition Strategy Options for the DD(X): The U.S. Navy’s 21st Century Destroyer — Jan 31, 2006

How can the Navy achieve the most effective competition among its suppliers during development and production of its new family of destroyers while ensuring that two shipyards remain in business to compete on future programs?

Journal Article

Why No Trade-Off Between Guns and Butter? Armed Forces and Social Spending in the Advanced Industrial Democracies, 1960-1993 — Jan 1, 2006

Argues that the standard measure of military efforts-defense spending-inadequately captures the social and political impact of military preparedness.

Research Brief

Forecasting China's Military Spending Through 2025 — Nov 25, 2005

RAND Project AIR FORCE (PAF) assessed three trends and provided projections of China's potential military expenditures through 2025.

Commentary

Beware Beijing's Military Ambitions — Aug 7, 2005

Published commentary by RAND staff.

Report

Software Cost Estimation and Sizing Methods: Issues and Guidelines — Jul 25, 2005

Recommends an approach to improving the utility and accuracy of software cost estimates by exposing uncertainty (in understanding the project) and reducing the risks associated with developing the estimates.

Report

An Assessment of Air Force Data on Contract Expenditures — May 20, 2005

Assesses the adequacy and accuracy of data from the Individual Contracting Action Report form, also known as the DD350, for conducting an expenditure analysis

News Release

RAND Study Predicts China's Defense Spending Is Lower Than Previous Outside Estimates — May 19, 2005

RAND Study Predicts China's Defense Spending Is Lower Than Previous Outside Estimates

Report

Modernizing China’s Military: Opportunities and Constraints — May 17, 2005

Projects future growth in Chinese defense expenditures, evaluates the current and likely future capabilities of China’s defense industries, and compares likely future defense expenditure levels with recent expenditures by the United States and the U.S. Air Force.

Commentary

Fear and the Garrison State — Apr 26, 2005

Published commentary by RAND staff.

Report

Dollar Cost Banding: A New Algorithm for Computing Inventory Levels for Army Supply Support Activities — Sep 2, 2004

Describes the development and implementation of dollar cost banding, a new algorithm for computing inventories maintained by Army supply support activities (SSAs).

Commentary

Time to Mend Fences — May 30, 2003

commentaries by RAND Staff: insightful commentaries on current events, published in newspapers, magazines and journals worldwide.

Report

Is Military Advertising Effective? An Estimation Methodology and Applications to Recruiting in the 1980s and 90s — Jan 1, 2003

Develops improved econometric analysis methods for evaluating whether military advertising has been effective in increasing the numbers of high-quality enlistments in the services and illustrates the methods using data from the early 1980s and mid-1990s.

Report

The U.S. Army and the New National Security Strategy — Jan 1, 2003

How should the Army transform to meet the new strategic challenges?

Report

A Framework for Strategy Development — Apr 29, 2002

This report contains the results of a study designed to assist the Department of Defense in its efforts to refine the defense strategy in light of recent experiences and to address expectations about future challenges to U.S. national security.

Report

Finding the Right Balance: Simulator and Live Training for Navy Units — Apr 29, 2002

The authors look at the use of simulators in the Air Force, the Marines, and French and British forces to see if the Navy's current mix of simulator and live training should be changed substantially for the first time since the 1970s.

Research Brief

Innovation and Technological Leadership: Fifty Years of Competition in U.S. Aircraft R&D — Jan 1, 1999

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.

Report

Environmental Management in Design: Lessons from Volvo and Hewlett-Packard for the Department of Defense — Jan 1, 1998

The authors of this report concentrate on two corporations -- Volvo and Hewlett-Packard -- to identify the key factors that led to successful implementation of a design-for-environment program.

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