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Military Logistics

Logistics—the transfer of personnel and materiel from one location to another, as well as the maintenance of that materiel—is essential for a military to be able to support an ongoing deployment or respond effectively to emergent threats. RAND has long provided guidance and effective solutions to military supply and logistics decisionmakers, resulting in significant savings, improved readiness and combat support, and unit flexibility.

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Reconstruction Under Fire: Unifying Civil and Military Counterinsurgency

Effective civilian reconstruction work can help convince people to support their government against insurgency, Therefore, insurgents typically target such work, thereby threatening the civilian population. This too often results in a postponement of reconstruction efforts and/or excessive reliance on force to defeat insurgents.

May 28, 2009
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Fighter Drawdown Dynamics: Effects on Aircrew Inventories

To satisfy increasing demands for fighter pilots without overwhelming the training pipeline, the Air Force must reduce fighter pilot production and leverage other assets to fill positions that require fighter pilot skills.

May 19, 2009
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The Long March: Building an Afghan National Army

The Afghan National Army (ANA) is critical to the success of achieving a stable Afghanistan. This monograph assesses the ANA's progress and finds that though it has come a long way since the outset of the recent conflict in the country, the United States will play a crucial role in Afghanistan for the foreseeable future.

May 13, 2009
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DDG-51 Engineering Training: How Simulators Can Help

Increased use of training simulators could improve engineering watchstanders' proficiency before Navy destroyers go to sea, saving money and reserving time at sea for refined training.

May 13, 2009
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Air Force Physician and Dentist Multiyear Special Pay: Current Status and Potential Reforms

Discusses the tendencies of Air Force physicians and dentists to accept Multiyear Special Pay.

May 6, 2009
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RAND Arroyo Center Annual Report 2008

Describes the breadth and depth of RAND Arroyo Center projects undertaken in fiscal year 2008 along with a comprehensive overview of the full range of Arroyo's research products and services.

Apr 21, 2009
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Assessing Capabilities and Risks in Air Force Programming: Framework, Metrics, and Methods

A method for capabilities-based programming is developed to assist the programming of a wide range of resources in light of an uncertain future, expressing capabilities and risks of resource allocations in terms of national planning objectives.

Apr 1, 2009
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Contractor Logistics Support in the U.S. Air Force

The Air Force would benefit by improving its recordkeeping on contractor logistics support (CLS) through centralization and standardization and by keeping all its other support options open by obtaining technical data rights as early as possible.

Mar 30, 2009
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Challenges and Issues with the Further Aging of U.S. Air Force Aircraft: Policy Options for Effective Life-Cycle Management of Resources

Several challenges and issues relating to the further aging of already-old U.S. Air Force aircraft must be addressed and policy options developed to direct the life-cycle management of resources to maintain such aircraft over the next 20 years.

Mar 24, 2009
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The Value and Impacts of Alternative Fuel Distribution Concepts: Assessing the Army's Future Needs for Temporary Fuel Pipelines

Reviews the U.S. Army's historical uses of temporary pipelines and surveys future scenarios in order to develop a broad list of potential requirements for temporary petroleum pipeline structure.

Mar 17, 2009
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Enhancing Combat Operations Through Improved Air-Ground Integration

Although airpower capabilities have improved dramatically in the past decade, the joint warfighting potential offered by these capabilities is not being fully realized, as illustrated during combat operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. The authors propose several alternatives and suggest a new joint warfighting concept designed to enhance the prioritization and synchronization of joint fires and maneuver.

Mar 16, 2009
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Combat Support Execution Planning and Control: An Assessment of Initial Implementations in Air Force Exercises

Two command post exercises in 2004 offered an operational environment in which to observe Air Force combat support execution planning and control activities.

Feb 24, 2009
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How Should Air Force Expeditionary Medical Capabilities Be Expressed?

A new metric for measuring expeditionary medical support based on the medical STEP rate of each component of the system -- a more accurate measure of capability than the current measure, number of beds.

Feb 24, 2009
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What It Takes: Air Force Command of Joint Operations

Discusses the theory and practice of joint task forces (JTFs), command-related developments in the Department of Defense, four JTFs, and requirements for JTF headquarters in order to develop recommendations for the U.S. Air Force to consider.

Jan 29, 2009
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Dollar Value and Risk Levels: Changing How Weapon System Programs Are Managed

Proposes a new paradigm in which the basis of management and oversight of a major defense acquisition program would be the level of risk it represents, including technical, system integration, design, production, and business innovation risk.

Jan 1, 2009
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Improving Acquisition Outcomes: Organizational and Management Issues

Examines the impact of organizational roles and management complexity on defense acquisition outcomes.

Jan 1, 2009
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Determining When Competition Is a Reasonable Strategy for the Production Phase of Defense Acquisition

Identifies the benefits and drawbacks of competition in defense acquisitions and uses RAND's required cost reduction methodology to show how DoD can determine when the introduction of competition during production is a reasonable strategy.

Jan 1, 2009
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Shining a Spotlight on the Defense Acquisition Workforce -- Again

Examines concerns about the size, quality, and effectiveness of the defense acquisition workforce and highlights areas where better evidence is needed to understand the linkage between workforce attributes and acquisition outcomes.

Jan 1, 2009
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Untying Gulliver: Taking Risks to Acquire Novel Weapon Systems

Describes the special features of novel systems and then outlines the major elements of an acquisition strategy that would be more consistent with these features and with the expected environment of urgency that might attend their development.

Jan 1, 2009
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On Prototyping: Lessons from RAND Research

Reviews four decades of RAND research on prototyping, concluding that evidence of its benefits is mixed, but there are some conditions under which prototyping is more likely to yield them.

Jan 1, 2009

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