Cost growth in the development and fielding of technologically advanced weapon systems has become a major economic burden for many nations and is expected to be an enduring and prevalent problem. RAND research has provided cost analyses and recommendations to help policymakers and military leaders develop improved cost-estimating tools and formulate policies that mitigate cost growth in military technology acquisition practices.
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Discussion of the impact of computers since World War II on military decisions and national defense. Computers have pervasive roles in military operations and management--on-board devices, communications, command and control, intelligence, logistic ...
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Description of the MIND Grammar-Rule Language (MGRL), including parsing procedure and grammar rules.
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A scheme for using directed, high-intensity light flashes to reduce the efficiency of Viet Cong night attacks.
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A description of the use in military communications of a distributed network in which each station is connected only to those nearest to it.
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One in a series of eleven Memoranda detailing the Distributed Adaptive Message Block Network, a proposed digital data communications system based on a distributed network concept.
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One in a series of eleven Memoranda detailing the Distributed Adaptive Message Block Network, a proposed digital data communications system based on a distributed network concept.
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One in a series of eleven Memoranda detailing the Distributed Adaptive Message Block Network, a proposed digital data communications system based on a distributed network concept.
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An attempt to view the problems of military command and control systems in the context of organizational decisionmaking processes. Decisionmaking in a large military organization is intimately associated with the very complex communications process b...
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An analysis of periscope antenna systems with curved reflectors, widely used in military and civilian microwave radio-relay communications. A design criterion for optimum curvature is developed that permits performance equal to or exceeding that of c...
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A number of approximate theories for supersonic and hypersonic flow over bodies of revolution at zero angle of attack are appraised.
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Prediction of the aerodynamic characteristics of a body at high flight speeds requires knowledge of the characteristics of the existing boundary layer
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This paper presents a second-order solution for the forces and moments produced by an oscillating two-dimensional airfoil of arbitrary cross section.
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This paper contains a discussion of the principle of operation of cw Doppler search radar systems and an analysis of their performance capabilities
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More than eleven years before the orbiting of Sputnik, history's first artificial space satellite, Project RAND released its first report: Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship (SM-11827), May 2, 1946.
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Associate Director, Force Modernization and Employment Program, RAND Project AIR FORCE; Senior Operations Researcher; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. in electrical engineering, UCLA
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Senior Physical Scientist
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Director, Defence and Security, RAND Europe
Ph.D. in environmental chemistry, University of Bristol; M.B.A., Imperial College, London; B.S. in chemistry, University of Bristol
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Senior Management Systems Analyst
M.S. in physics, University of South Carolina; B.S. in physics, Roanoke College
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M.S. in engineering management, The George Washington University; B.S. in industrial engineering, Ohio State University
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Ph.D. in electrical engineering, California Institute of Technology; M.S. in electrical engineering, California Institute of Technology; B.S. in electrical engineering, University of Texas at Austin; B.A. in liberal arts (plan ii honors), University of Texas at Austin
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