Jennifer Kavanagh

Overview

Commentary

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  How RAND Is Responding to Truth Decay: Q&A with Michael Rich and Jennifer Kavanagh

  RAND's Michael Rich and Jennifer Kavanagh explain what “truth decay” is and discuss how ongoing RAND research could help counter it.

  May 5, 2017

Publications

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  Access Granted: Political Challenges to the U.S. Overseas Military Presence, 1945–2014

  This report explores the topic of U.S. access to foreign military bases and territory. It systematically examines the issues of peacetime and contingency access and identifies how the United States can counter political threats to access.

  Nov 21, 2016

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  Workforce Downsizing and Restructuring in the Department of Defense: The Voluntary Separation Incentive Payment Program Versus Involuntary Separation

  Assesses the cost-effectiveness for the U.S. Department of Defense of using incentives for voluntary separations, together with or instead of imposing involuntary separations, to reduce the size of its civilian workforce.

  Oct 13, 2016

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  Estimating the Value of Overseas Security Commitments

  In an era of intensifying debate over U.S. funding and resources, RAND researchers explore whether and to what extent the United States derives economic benefits from its overseas security commitments.

  Sep 22, 2016

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  Economic Benefits of U.S. Overseas Security Commitments Could Far Outweigh Costs

  Amid intensifying debate over U.S. funding and resources, RAND researchers find that the economic benefits of U.S. overseas security commitments could far exceed the costs.

  Sep 22, 2016

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  Retention, Incentives, and DoD Experience Under the 40-Year Military Pay Table

  In a multimethod analysis, RAND researchers assess whether the military should continue using its 40-year pay table to retain experienced personnel or whether such retention could be equally achieved with a 30-year pay table.

  Aug 3, 2016

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  The Implications of Allowing Transgender Personnel to Serve Openly in the U.S. Military

  To inform a potential change in policy, a RAND study examined the health care needs of transgender military personnel, costs of gender transition-related care and potential readiness implications of allowing transgender personnel to serve openly.

  Jun 30, 2016

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  Assessing the Implications of Allowing Transgender Personnel to Serve Openly

  To inform a potential change in policy, a RAND study examined the health care needs of transgender military personnel, costs of gender transition-related care, and potential readiness implications of allowing transgender personnel to serve openly.

  Jun 30, 2016

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  Implications of Integrating Women into the Marine Corps Infantry

  This study for the U.S. Marine Corps reviews the history of the integration of women into the U.S. military and explores the role of cohesion, the gender integration of foreign militaries and domestic police and fire departments, and potential costs.

  Dec 3, 2015

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  Implications of Integrating Women into USMC Infantry

  The Marine Corps Combat Development Command asked RAND to study the integration of women into infantry combat roles. Researchers reviewed the literature, conducted interviews, estimated costs, and developed an approach for monitoring integration.

  Dec 3, 2015

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  Joint Precision Approach and Landing System Nunn-McCurdy Breach Root Cause Analysis and Portfolio Assessment Metrics for DoD Weapons Systems, Volume 8

  The authors examine the Joint Precision Approach and Landing System Inc. 1A Nunn-McCurdy breach and document a methodology that can assess and summarize the overall performance of an acquisition portfolio at a point in time and over several years.

  Oct 23, 2015

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  A Database of U.S. Security Treaties and Agreements

  The U.S. portfolio of treaties and agreements can offer insights into the distribution and depth of U.S. international commitments, including its military commitments, relationships, capabilities, and vulnerabilities in a given area.

  Dec 17, 2014

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  U.S. Security-Related Agreements in Force Since 1955: Introducing a New Database

  The U.S. portfolio of treaties and agreements can offer insights into the distribution and depth of U.S. international commitments, including its military commitments, relationships, capabilities, and vulnerabilities in a given area.

  Dec 17, 2014

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  Management Perspectives Pertaining to Root Cause Analyses of Nunn-McCurdy Breaches, Volume 4: Program Manager Tenure, Oversight of Acquisition Category II Programs, and Framing Assumptions

  Concerned with cost overruns in programs that breached Nunn-McCurdy thresholds, Congress directed investigation of the root causes of these overruns, and the authors examine various possible contributors to these breaches.

  Oct 3, 2013

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  A Cost Analysis of the U.S. Air Force Overseas Posture: Informing Strategic Choices

  Estimates the costs associated with U.S. and overseas Air Force installations and units to provide insight into the costs and benefits of overseas basing.

  Sep 16, 2013

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  Do U.S. Military Interventions Occur in Clusters?

  This research challenges the assumption that the timing of deployments and their distribution over time are serially independent, arguing that military interventions occur in temporal clusters driven by the number of interventions in the recent past.

  Jun 25, 2013

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  Are U.S. Military Interventions Contagious over Time? Intervention Timing and Its Implications for Force Planning

  This report challenges the assumption that the timing of deployments and their distribution over time are serially independent, arguing that military interventions occur in temporal clusters driven by the number of interventions in the recent past.

  May 17, 2013

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  Allocating Marine Expeditionary Unit Equipment and Personnel to Minimize Shortfalls

  In many cases, the available space on a Marine Expeditionary Unit's ships falls far short of what is needed to transport the full set of required equipment. A RAND-developed software tool was designed to help limit the effects of these shortfalls.

  Jul 19, 2012

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  The Extent of Restrictions on the Service of Active-Component Military Women

  To support a congressionally mandated review of gender-based assignment restrictions in the U.S. military, RAND researchers described and quantified the positions that are closed to women in each of the services.

  May 21, 2012

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  Managing Diversity in Corporate America: An Exploratory Analysis

  Develops a fact-based approach to diversity management in U.S. corporations and uses it to compare corporate practices.

  2008

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  Assessing the Assignment Policy for Army Women

  Since current policies for assigning military women were issued, the Army has changed how it organizes and fights. Assessing the Assignment Policy for Army Women considers the appropriateness of these policies in light of recent operations in Iraq.

  Apr 28, 2007

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  Indefinite Reenlistment and Noncommissioned Officers

  Considers the utility of the U.S. Army shift, in 1998, of its senior enlisted force from a fixed enlistment contract system to indefinite reenlistment and the potential applicability to the other service branches.

  Jan 29, 2007

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  Deployment, Stress, and Intention to Stay in the Military

  This research brief summarizes a multidisciplinary study to provide insight into the effect of deployment on military personnel and permit several implications to be drawn for policy.

  Jan 13, 2006

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  How Deployments Affect Service Members

  Offers insights into the challenges faced by active-duty service members deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, the resiliency they and their families have shown in coping with these challenges, and the adequacy of defense manpower policy in assisting members and families.

  2006

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  Stress and Performance: A Review of the Literature and Its Applicability to the Military

  Analyzes literature on the relationships among stressors, stress, and performance and applies the most relevant findings to military operations and training.

  Aug 15, 2005

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  Determinants of Productivity for Military Personnel: A Review of Findings on the Contribution of Experience, Training, and Aptitude to Military Performance

  Discusses the primary literature and empirical findings related to three major factors that affect military personnel productivity: experience, training, and ability.

  Mar 25, 2005

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  Attracting the Best: How the Military Competes for Information Technology Personnel

  This report focuses on the factors affecting the supply of information technology (IT) personnel to the active duty enlisted force, and the findings point to the conclusion that the IT training opportunities offered by the military can help secure th

  Aug 15, 2004

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  Can the Military Successfully Meet the Demand for Information Technology Personnel?

  Despite concerns that the military might face a shortage of information technology (IT) personnel within the active duty enlisted force, the services have been successful in attracting and keeping IT personnel. IT training appears to play a critical ...

  2004