Countering ISIL's Financing 2014
Testimony presented before the House Financial Services Committee on November 13, 2014.
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Toward Meaningful Military Compensation Reform: Research in Support of DoD's Review 2014
Analyzes many alternatives for reforming the military compensation system, focusing on retirement compensation, and reaches two concepts for reform. Both concepts retain positive aspects of the current system while also providing cost savings, improving equity, potentially adding force management flexibility, and simplifying the Department of Defense disability compensation system.
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Findings from Existing Data on the Department of Defense Industrial Base 2014
Existing federal data can identify supply base participation of subcontractors, their socioeconomic status, and the vulnerability of contractors and subcontractors to environmental risks and changes in their federal government prime contract and subcontract revenue. This information can help policymakers understand potential risks in the supply chain. Data on natural-disaster risks can also help identify external sources of supply disruption.
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How Do Federal Civilian Pay Freezes and Retirement Plan Changes Affect Employee Retention in the Department of Defense? 2014
RAND has begun to extend the dynamic retention model to federal civil service employment. Using this capability, this study assesses the effect on retention of pay freezes, unpaid furloughs, and changes to civil service retirement. Permanent pay freezes decrease the workforce retained by 7.3 percent. A mandated increase in employee contributions to the federal retirement plan decreases the workforce retained by as much as 8.6 percent.
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Targeting Alcohol Misuse: A Promising Strategy for Reducing Military Sexual Assaults? 2014
Sexual assaults in the U.S. military have not declined despite the implementation of universal prevention programs. Alcohol misuse is also a greater problem among service members than among their civilian counterparts. A review of the civilian research provides some guidance for implementing and evaluating efforts to reduce alcohol misuse as part of a larger strategy to reduce the incidence of sexual assault in the military.
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Drivers of Long-Term Insecurity and Instability in Pakistan: Urbanization 2014
Pakistan is already one of the most urbanized nations in South Asia, and a majority of its population is projected to be living in cities within three decades. This demographic shift is likely to have a significant impact on Pakistan's politics and stability. This report briefly examines urbanization as a potential driver of long-term insecurity and instability, with particular attention to the cities of Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta.
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Alternative Futures for Syria: Regional Implications and Challenges for the United States 2014
This perspective draws on a December 2013 RAND workshop to assess four possible future scenarios for the conflict in Syria: prolonged conflict, regime victory, regime collapse, and negotiated settlement. The authors update and reassess these scenarios based on developments in Syria and Iraq through August 2014 and explore the implications that each has for Syria, the region, and the United States.
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Cruise Missile Penaid Nonproliferation: Hindering the Spread of Countermeasures Against Cruise Missile Defenses 2014
An attacker's missile-borne countermeasures to cruise missile defenses are known as penetration aids, or penaids. To support efforts to prevent the proliferation of penaid-related items, this research recommends controls on potential exports according to the structure of the international Missile Technology Control Regime.
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RAND NSRD Annual Report 2013-2014 2014
Surveys the work of the RAND National Security Research Division from April 2013 through June 2014.
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Management Perspectives Pertaining to Root Cause Analyses of Nunn-McCurdy Breaches, Volume 6: Contractor Motivations and Anticipating Breaches 2014
The authors explore defense contractor motivations and identify mechanisms that might more closely align those incentives with Department of Defense goals. They also analyze major defense acquisition programs to determine if it is possible to identify programs that might incur a future Nunn-McCurdy breach by reviewing a number of acquisition programs that have incurred breaches and analyzing them for common characteristics.
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The Federal Civil Service Workforce: Assessing the Effects on Retention of Pay Freezes, Unpaid Furloughs, and Other Federal-Employee Compensation Changes in the Department of Defense 2014
This study begins to extend the dynamic retention model to federal civil service employment. Models are estimated and then used to simulate the effects of pay freezes and unpaid furloughs. Permanent pay freezes decrease the workforce retained by 7.3 to 8.5 percent; temporary freezes as well as furloughs have virtually no impact. For all the employee subgroups considered, the fit to actual data is excellent, and all of the model parameter estimates are statistically significant.
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Mental Health Stigma in the Military 2014
This report assesses the U.S. military's approach to reducing stigma for mental health disorders and their treatment, how well it is working, and how it might be improved. It presents priorities for program and policy development and research and evaluation to get service members the treatment they need as efficiently and effectively as possible.
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Identifying and Eliminating Barriers Faced by Nontraditional Department of Defense Suppliers 2014
The report seeks to identify barriers that companies face when attempting to enter into contracts with the Department of Defense (DoD), especially when they are not traditional DoD suppliers. To learn more about barriers, the authors interviewed personnel in companies that are in industries of likely interest to DoD and interviewed DoD personnel who work with suppliers.
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Developing a Research Strategy for Suicide Prevention in the Department of Defense: Status of Current Research, Prioritizing Areas of Need, and Recommendations for Moving Forward 2014
To support U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) efforts to create a unified, comprehensive strategic plan for suicide prevention research, a RAND study cataloged studies funded by DoD and other entities, examined whether current research maps to DoD's strategic research needs, and provided recommendations to encourage better alignment and narrow the research-practice gap when it comes to disseminating findings to programs serving military personnel.
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Strategic Planning for Border Security: Addendum 2014
Document submitted on September 18, 2014 as an addendum to testimony presented before the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, Subcommittee on Research and Technology and Subcommittee on Oversight on July 31, 2014.