Armed forces include active-duty and reserve personnel, officers, and enlisted corps. RAND research and analysis helps policymakers understand how to recruit, train, and educate the military workforce and provide cost-effective health care for military personnel and their families.
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The U.S. military should reassess its child care system to look for ways to make it better fit the needs of military families and more effectively meet recruitment, readiness and retention goals.
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Tests the assumptions behind the U.S. Army's personnel management system that personnel stability leads to higher unit cohesion, which leads in turn to increased unit effectiveness.
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An expert panel's review of the DoD's 2006 human capital strategy, with recommendations for future iterations.
News Release
By better managing environmental issues during deployments, U.S. Army units can gain tactical and strategic advantages that will help in combat and post-conflict operations, and boost overall mission success.
Research Brief
This research brief summarizes research suggesting that the U.S. Department of Defense may wish to consider expanding its child care benefits to cover more military families and a broader set of child care needs.
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The likely costs and implications of alternative national defense strategies should be assessed through disciplined analyses that examine whether the primary agents of the strategy, U.S. combatant commands, have the ability to meet the strategy's expectations, rather than by merely allowing external events, time constraints, or politics to direct the strategy and inflate its costs.
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Examines the preparation of reserve component general and flag officers, senior civilians, and senior noncommissioned officers for participation in joint military activities.
Research Brief
This research brief describes an approach that can be used in today's highly fluid global security environment to compare the likely effectiveness, risks, and costs of alternative national defense strategies.
Research Brief
This research brief describes how the Department of Defense can best develop its civilian executives, reserve component general/flag officers, and senior noncommissioned officers for success in joint matters.
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Examines the effect of military deployment on spousal labor force participation and household well-being.
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A portfolio-analysis approach that deals explicitly with both uncertainty and differences of strategic perspective allows an integrated comparison of alternative strategies' effectiveness, risks, and resource implications.
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The nature of recent challenges and the types of missions the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has undertaken highlight the need for training DoD personnel in the simultaneous use of different types of tools, military and otherwise.
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The U.S. Navy is looking for ways to reduce the annual operating costs of the fleet. RAND examines whether and how an increased use of simulators could reduce costly underway training days for DDG-51-class ships while sustaining readiness.
Research Brief
This research brief describes the growing importance of environmental considerations for the Army in contingency operations and suggests ways to better address environmental issues in Army planning, training, policy, guidance, and operations.
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Summarizes defense acquisition workforce analyses that RAND has undertaken in support of human capital strategic planning.
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Examines the practice of not standardizing the test scores that are part of the U.S. Air Force enlisted promotion system and discusses possible standardization strategies.
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Testimony presented before the Joint Economic Committee on June 12, 2008.
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An inflow of foreign students in the sciences -- as well as scientists and engineers from overseas -- has helped the United States build and maintain its worldwide lead in science and technology.
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Testimony presented before the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs on June 11, 2008.
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Testimony presented before the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs on June 11, 2008.
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