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Jun 15, 2026
RAND’s National Security Research Division is hosting a 2-day tabletop exercise to explore how digital engineering works across a defense acquisition lifecycle.
Commentary
Apr 2, 2025
The Royal Academy of Engineering's Frontiers Programme empowers early career researchers to address global challenges through interdisciplinary collaboration, equitable partnerships, and mentorship, enhancing the research-for-development landscape.
Research
Dec 31, 2024
This report examines an ongoing application of digital engineering artifacts to the LGM-35A Sentinel program's Unified Certification Strategy.
Dec 16, 2024
RAND Europe was commissioned by the Royal Academy of Engineering to evaluate its Frontiers programme. This report assesses the programme's contributions, its added value and role in the wider ecosystem using a theory-based evaluation approach.
Mar 13, 2024
This report shares efforts to develop decision support frameworks for assessing the costs and benefits of digital engineering in defense weapon system programs.
Press
Sep 14, 2023
Most students who complete manufacturing-related credentials in Ohio do not end up employed in manufacturing in the state, highlighting a challenge that faces policymakers as they push to create more U.S. manufacturing jobs.
Research Summary
This research brief describes findings from an examination of the pipeline between Ohio’s postsecondary education system and the manufacturing workforce, highlighting ways to bolster the supply of manufacturing workers and diversity in the industry.
The authors of this report examine the pipeline between Ohio’s postsecondary education system and the manufacturing workforce, focusing on ways to bolster the supply of workers and the diversity of the workforce.
Feb 21, 2023
In a multiyear effort, RAND researchers analyzed the challenges of creating a universal command and control language to facilitate the evolution of systems and interoperability of systems-of-systems for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Nov 3, 2022
Oversights during development of technical requirements for new weapon systems can result in cost or schedule overruns or unsuitable operational performance. This report describes a systems-based approach to help improve this process.
Aug 16, 2022
This report presents the findings from a literature review on doctoral education in engineering and physical sciences conducted as part of a review of doctoral education currently being conducted by the EPSRC.
Project
To support the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council's review of their investment in doctoral education, researchers are exploring the skills required for doctoral graduates in the sector, and how students see doctoral education contributing to the development of these skills and to their career pathways.
