REPORT
This report describes the result of an expert panel assembled to consider how the Army can get the best long-term value from its investments in basic research. The panel examined trends in basic research and R&D and profiled several top-quality research laboratories, to gain insight into how the Army might better structure and fund its own labs. The report offers a number of recommendations for improving the Army research effort.
REPORT
There has been an overall downward trend in the use of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) wind-tunnel test facilities, and fiscal pressures have increased incentives to cut costs and create additional sources of revenue. The authors explore six potential approaches to pricing the use of these facilities and evaluate each approach against three criteria — efficiency, fiscal impact, and fairness.
REPORT
Geoengineering is risky, but could transform the portfolio of options for limiting future climate change. Some geoengineering approaches could prove fast acting and inexpensive and could be deployed by one or a few nations without global cooperation.
NEWS RELEASE
RAND has signed an agreement to help the Guangzhou Economic and Technological Development District in Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China, to develop a strategic plan for a system of policies, incentives, and other practices to support technological innovation in Knowledge City, a planned new development for 300,000 residents.
REPORT
Much of the training for the engineering watchstanders of Arleigh Burke-class destroyers that is currently done underway could be done in port. Training could also be done on simulators at considerable savings in time, money, fuel, and ship wear and tear. This monograph discusses how training simulator use could improve engineering watchstanders' proficiency before ships go to sea, reserving time at sea for fine-tuning the training.
NEWS RELEASE
Despite perceptions that the nation is losing its competitive edge, the United States remains the dominant leader in science and technology worldwide.
REPORT
How to make airframe structures durable and damage tolerant when the material is metal is well known, but what about the new hybrid materials? These have not been fully addressed, and because of their variety, doing so will involve multiple engineering specialties. This report discusses technical and programmatic concerns and offers a framework for the collaboration of systems, materials, and structural engineers.
NEWS RELEASE
May 7, 2007 news release: Navy Should Start Next Nuclear Submarine Design Phase Early to Prevent Engineering Brain Drain, RAND Study Finds.
NEWS RELEASE
August 30, 2006 News Release: RAND Researcher Receives 2005 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
REPORT
The U.S. Air Force relies on sound cost estimates to make budgetary and policy decisions regarding the acquisition of aircraft and guided weapon systems. New techniques can help analysts make more accurate estimates of systems engineering and program management costs.
RESEARCH BRIEF
This research brief summarizes trends in the cost of systems engineering and program management for military aircraft and guided weapon systems and factors driving those costs.
COMMENTARY
Published commentary by RAND staff: Making Europe a Home Fit for the Next Einstein, in the Financial Times.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Entry by spinoffs from incumbent firms is investigated for the laser industry.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Software project managers make decisions about many things, including resources, tools and techniques, often aiming to identify good or best practices.
REPORT
The Office of Nonproliferation Research and Engineering conducts wide-ranging research for diverse end users at the federal and local level. As such, it faces numerous challenges in determining how to best serve its users' needs while justifying its budget. To help meet these challenges, the author suggests specific changes in the Office's research program planning. One set of planning methods focuses on strengthening the Office's…
REPORT
Presents an analysis of the pay competitiveness, and quality of employees recruited and retained, for civilian scientific and engineering positions in Department of Defense (DoD) laboratories.
REPORT
Evaluates one part of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, the Earthquake Hazard Mitigation Program (EHMP).
REPORT
The Rand Strategy Assessment Center's (RSAC) automated wargaming system includes computer programs that act as agents for Red (Soviet Union) and Blue (United States). Both Red and Blue Agent programs consist of hierarchical levels of rule-based model...
REPORT
Surveys the technology of knowledge based systems, or knowledge engineering, to identify potential military applications.
REPORT
The SIMSYS2D system is designed for the two-dimensional simulation of hydrodynamics and water quality in well-mixed estuaries, coastal seas, harbors, and inland waters. The system can simulate the hydrodynamics in complicated geographical areas and ...
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