This document collects papers delivered at a conference on variable-resolution modeling and the related issue of developing integrated hierarchies of models. The conference was sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO). It was co-hosted by RAND and the University of Arizona. Preparation for the conference and development of this proceedings was accomplished in the Applied Science and Technology program of RAND's...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *MODELS, *RESOLUTION, DEFENSE...
In the wake of the failure of the Joint Simulation System (JSIMS), the Department of Defense (DoD) sought improvements to its approach to buying simulations training through a process called the Training Capabilities Analysis of Alternatives (TC AoA). The DoD has decided to move forward with a prototype of one alternative developed as part of this process an innovative business model intended to align the financial incentives of industry participants with positive training and technology...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Paul, Christopher, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *SIMULATORS,...
Interagency and international processes have received renewed emphasis as a means to integrate diplomatic, economic, and military activities. The idea of specialists in interagency operations was broached in the National Defense Panel Report. (Congress mandated the Panel to assess the Defense Department's Quadrennial Defense Review and to address the future defense and security needs of the United States.) A former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has suggested that applying the spirit of...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Thie, Harry J, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *CAREERS,...
The Department of Defense should stick with its winner-take-all strategy to develop and produce the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). But as a hedge to ensure later versions of this next- generation aircraft-which is slated to become the workhorse fighter for the Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps-have the most effective and innovative sensor, computer, and software technologies, the Pentagon should consider spending money to keep a second developer and producer of these vital electronics components...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Birkler, John, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *FIGHTER...
Insurgency has been the most prevalent form of armed conflict since at least 1949. Despite that fact, following the Vietnam War and through the balance of the Cold War, the U.S. military establishment turned its back on insurgency, refusing to consider operations against insurgents as anything other than a lesser-included case for forces structured for and prepared to fight two major theater wars. In the post-9/11 world, however, insurgency has rocketed back into prominence. As counterterrorism...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *COUNTERINSURGENCY, MILITARY...
Drug-related violence has become a very serious problem in Mexico, leading to more than 30,000 deaths in the country between December 2006 and December 2010. Violent drug-trafficking organizations (VDTOs) produce, transship, and deliver into the United States tens of billions of dollars worth of narcotics annually. The activities of VDTOs are not confined to drug trafficking, but extend to numerous other criminal enterprises, including human trafficking, weapon trafficking, kidnapping, money...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *DRUG SMUGGLING, *INSTABILITY,...
Recognizing the importance of past experiences for successful program management, the Program Executive Officer (PEO) for Submarines from the United States, the Director Submarines of the United Kingdom's Defence Equipment and Support organization, and the Director General Submarines from Australia's Department of Defence asked the RAND Corporation to develop a set of lessons learned from previous submarine programs that could help inform future program managers. The research examined the Ohio,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *ATTACK SUBMARINES, *DEPARTMENT...
Every four years, the Department of Defense (DoD) conducts a Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation (QRMC). One issue considered in the 11th QRMC, which began in 2010, is ensuring that the pay and benefits of Reserve Component (RC) membersare consistent with the current and planned use of RC personnel in an operational capacity. The 11th QRMC proposes a new approach to compensating RC members, a total-force approach, in which RC compensation is more closely aligned with the approach used...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *BENEFITS, *COMPENSATION,...
A new approach to surveying service members and their families places their needs rather than evaluation of existing programs at the center of the inquiry. In this approach, military personnel and family members identify high-priority problems they face; these are linked to their high-priority needs, which are then linked to resources they have contacted and the effectiveness of those resources. A survey instrument embodying this approach was developed with input from service members, spouses,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *FAMILY MEMBERS, *MILITARY...
The mission to recover amphibious forces can be complicated if ashore forces come under attack from enemy weapons, particularly chemical, biological, or radiological (CBR) weapons. If ashore forces are attacked with CBR weapons, they may become contaminated and pose a crosscontamination risk to other forces with whom they come in contact. If contaminants spread to equipment and vehicles, creating persistent hazards, these items may pose an additional crosscontamination risk. Among the potential...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *CHEMICAL AGENTS, AMPHIBIOUS...
Aptitude for successful military service in the enlisted ranks includes the ability to succeed in at least one of many military occupational specialties, career fields, or ratings, and the ability to adapt to and thrive in a military lifestyle of good order and discipline. The Department of Defense screens military applicants for these qualities using the Armed Forces Qualification Test from the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, physical and moral standards, and educational...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *APTITUDE TESTS, *ATTRITION,...
In 2008, U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Secretary Robert Gates pushed the military services to field more intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) assets in an effort to address the warfighter s insatiable appetite for the information these systems provide. Since that time, the DoD has made substantial progress in fielding more, and more capable unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to meet the needs of warfighters in different theaters of operation. Innovative UAS platforms and sensors...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *AIRCRAFT, *INTEROPERABILITY,...
The Department of Defense (DoD) has relied heavily on members of the reserve components of the U.S. military (hereafter referred to as reservists) to fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Reservists have suffered a variety of injuries during their deployments, many of which could significantly impact their future well-being. Among those injuries is the condition known as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), an anxiety disorder that is precipitated by the experience of a traumatic event....
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER,...
This report examines the controversial issue of flows of information technology and investment between Taiwan and China, with a particular focus on the semiconductor industry. The goals of this report are threefold: (1) to comprehensively analyze the investment and IT transfer dynamic between Taiwan and China; (2) to assess the impact of these developments for cross-Strait relations, the global semiconductor industry, and the advancement of science and technology development in China; and (3)...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Chase, Michael S, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *INFORMATION...
When first established decades ago, most U.S. military installations were far from major cities and towns. That is no longer true. A growing population and changing land development patterns over the past several decades have led to lands vital to military readiness being surrounded by urban, suburban, and other types of development. Such development, especially large residential tracts, can limit the installation's operational capability. Complaints about noise, dust, and smoke from aircraft,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Lachman, Beth E, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *BUFFERS,...
This monograph explores new ideas for analyzing national defense strategy, building on concepts that enjoy credence in the defense world while borrowing other concepts from the business world. It is the companion of a longer analytical report on the same subject. Both result from a study of how to assess the implications of national defense strategy, conducted by RAND at the behest of the Joint Staff's J-8 and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. For decades, RAND has partnered with the U.S....
Topics: DTIC Archive, Gompert, David C, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *GLOBAL,...
In the past century, China and India have experienced frequently rivalrous relations, including two occasions of military conflict in 1956 and 1982, sharp changes in the issues and venues of their rivalry, and sometimes quite different stances toward the United States and its policies. These circumstances provide a backdrop for our report, although our approach is more narrowly focused, while also looking forward to the two countries future prospects rather than to their histories. The purpose...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *CHINA, *DEMOGRAPHY, *INDIA,...
A new RAND project enhances the methods of portfolio analysis -- an approach to allocating resources across multiple objectives while managing risk. The enhancements are particularly applicable to decisions made regarding the development of military capabilities. The modified approach recognizes the need to test system alternatives against a range of scenarios, to supplement narrow military evaluation criteria with socioeconomic and political criteria, and to allow easy decisionmaker input to...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *DECISION MAKING, *DEFENSE...
Since 2001, the National Guard and Reserve have been utilized at unprecedented levels to fill key roles in overseas operations, with more than 800,000 reserve component members called to active duty since 9/11. As a result of these increased demands, guard personnel and reservists have experienced more overseas deployments -- often in combat situations that extend for long periods or occur in rapid succession. In many cases, this shift in operational tempo places a strain on families,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *FAMILY MEMBERS, *MILITARY...
The United States will soon be conducting another major review of national-security strategy. It will be the responsibility of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) to provide resource-informed assessments and recommendations to the Secretary of Defense and the President. This monograph illustrates newly developed methods and tools to support the chairman's efforts. We sought a way to compare strategies that would integrate expectations about effectiveness, risks, and resource...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Davis, Paul K, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *GLOBAL,...
This monograph, focusing on North Korea, analyzes some of the economic, political, and security issues associated with Korean unification. The analysis considers the numerous puzzles and paradoxes that obscure the North Korean system, especially that system's structure and functioning as a rent-seeking economy. We also consider how the system might unravel, leading to the possibility of reunification, and what the attendant capital costs of reunification would be under differing circumstances...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Wolf, Charles, Jr, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *NORTH KOREA,...
To achieve key national security objectives, the U.S. government and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) must communicate effectively and credibly with a broad range of foreign audiences. DoD spends more than $250 million per year on inform, influence, and persuade (IIP) efforts, but how effective (and cost-effective) are they? How well do they support military objectives? Could some of them be improved? If so, how? DoD has struggled with assessing the progress and effectiveness of its IIP...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *ATTITUDES(PSYCHOLOGY),...
In recent years, the prevalence of psychological health conditions among military service members has increased substantially (Institute of Medicine, 2013). Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), for example, has emerged as one of the most common psychological health conditions among younger veterans who were deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation New Dawn. Studies have shown that symptoms of PTSD among veterans frequently co-occur...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *STRESS(PSYCHOLOGY), MEDICAL...
Currently, with extended deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army is having difficulties recruiting new non-prior-service personnel. Questions have been raised concerning the viability of the all-volunteer force and how the Department of Defense (DoD) can manage personnel during these times of stress and uncertainty. This report addresses these concerns, with particular attention to the history of conscription and volunteerism. It examines the history of the draft to try to understand when...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Rostker, Bernard D, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *MILITARY...
In 1986, the military establishment underwent the most sweeping package of defense reforms to be enacted in almost 40 years, starting with the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act. Related reforms followed shortly thereafter, including those contained in the National Defense Authorization Act of 1987, reflecting many of the recommendations of the Packard Commission. In the two decades following enactment of this legislation, the military establishment has taken numerous...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *MILITARY REQUIREMENTS, *NAVAL...
The Air Force's Nonnuclear Consumables Annual Analysis (NCAA) details the annual computation of the WRM munitions requirements. This Note examines the process and its outputs and inputs. The potential for bias in some inputs, which may bias the mix of weapons computed by the requirements computation, is investigated. Several suggestions for potential improvements are included. Some of the improvements pertain to the treatment of uncertainty about the number of targets that can be killed with a...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *ESTIMATES, *METHODOLOGY,...
The Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program (YRRP) is a Department of Defense (DoD) initiative established in 2008 to provide deployment cycle information, resources, programs, services, and referrals to reserve-component personnel and their families. YRRP offers a series of events for personnel and their families that occur throughout the deployment cycle, from predeployment, during deployment, and 30, 60, and 90 days postdeployment. These events provide information and services to support guard...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *MILITARY PERSONNEL, COUNSELING,...
Since the end of the Cold War, the value of civilians in postconflict stabilization has become increasingly clear. As a result, beginning in 2003, the European Union began deploying civilian missions under the auspices of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP). Many experts believe that the European Union has a special role to play in civilian work around the world. Some have argued that the multidimensional nature of the EU makes it inherently better suited for civilian work when...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *EUROPEAN UNION, *CRISIS...
Israel and Iran have come to view each other over the past decade as direct regional rivals, increasing the risks for regional crises leading to military conflict. This monograph explores the strategic, political, and ideological underpinnings of each country's threat perceptions of the other and their implications for U.S. regional interests. The monograph's key findings are as follows: The Israeli-Iranian Rivalry Could Lead to Direct Military Conflict; Despite the Current Animosity, Israel...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *FOREIGN POLICY, *IDEOLOGY,...
The Department of Defense (DoD) must meet a variety of goals in purchasing more than $350 billion in goods and services every year. Above all, of course, it must meet the paramount goal of fulfilling warfighter requirements but, in doing so, it has other statutory and policy goals to meet as well. One goal is to spend approximately 23 percent of its prime-contract dollars for goods and services with firms identified as small within their industry. More recently, DoD has also pursued...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *MILITARY PROCUREMENT,...
Nearly all professionals must deal with the unexpected. Indeed, many organizations face an operational environment that is faster paced, more uncertain, and filled with more variables than it was even 10 years ago. Some professionals must respond to changes in their environment quickly -- sometimes instantaneously -- which makes planning for the unexpected of critical importance. Anecdotal evidence suggests that people in different occupations respond to unexpected situations, or surprises, in...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *CHAOS, *DECISION MAKING,...
Installations and environment (I&E) geospatial data assets are being developed, used, and shared for many different Department of Defense (DoD) missions, including installation management, homeland defense, emergency response, environmental management, military health, and war fighting. There are many benefits in effectiveness and efficiency to using and sharing such data. However, there are also barriers that limit the widespread use and sharing of such assets within and outside DoD,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Lachman, Beth E, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *MILITARY...
Founded by a decree from Ayatollah Khomeini shortly after the victory of the 1978 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has evolved well beyond its original foundations as an ideological guard for the nascent revolutionary regime. Today, the IRGC functions as an expansive socio-political-economic conglomerate whose influence extends into virtually every corner of Iranian political life and society. Bound together by the shared experience of war and the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Wehrey, Frederic, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *MILITARY...
Though the United States has pledged to withdraw its combat forces from Iraq by the end of 2011, ethnic and sectarian fault lines will continue to divide the country. Tensions in northern Iraq-where Arab and Kurdish communities face off regarding disputes over land, resources, governance, and security-could easily, with the right catalyst, lead to armed conflict. The risk of violence is increased significantly by the presence of roughly 75,000 Kurdish peshmerga fighters and thousands of Iraqi...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *MILITARY FORCES(UNITED STATES),...
Our nation s all-volunteer military force continues to endure the longest era of conflict in its history. The past decade has been characterized by frequent deployments and exposure to combat-related trauma, which have increased the risk of postdeployment psychological health problems among the more than 2.2 million troops that have deployed since 2001 (Levin, 2011). Concerns have been raised about the incidence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), major depression, traumatic brain injury...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *MENTAL HEALTH, DEPLOYMENT,...
This report documents an analysis of the legal, institutional, and economic feasibility of a possible solution for hardening the nation's emerging fiber-optics communications backbone at no out-of-pocket cost to the government. The proposed solution would exchange access to Interstate highway right-of-way, which telecommunications companies are currently prohibited from using but which is quite attractive to them from the perspective of installation cost savings, for the hardening of...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *FIBER OPTICS TRANSMISSION...
This documented briefing analyzes the European defense market by focusing on distinct market segments, which comprise major platforms and selected subsystems. This document is divided into four parts: * After establishing the broad objectives of RAND research on the European defense market as well as the specific goals and scope of this particular project, the first part of the briefing provides an overview of the European defense industry, its key characteristics, and a broad comparison with...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Vlachos-Dengler, Katia, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *DEFENSE...
The U.S. Army owns more than a dozen plants that today manufacture ammunition, ammunition components, and other ordnance materiel such as gun tubes and gun mounts. Some 70 completely private plants, at which the Army spends roughly two-thirds of its ammunition dollars, complement this government-owned base. In contrast, during the period 1965-86, Canada privatized all its government-owned munitions plants, achieving beneficial results. This report is a companion to Rethinking Governance of the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Hix, W M, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *PRODUCTION,...
In the first couple of decades following World War II, over a dozen firms competed vigorously to develop and produce U.S. military aircraft. During the ensuing years, some firms left the business and others merged, so that by 1990 only eight firms survived. In the following few years, the pace of consolidation quickened. Today, only three firms are capable of developing and producing major military aircraft systems. Policymakers have expressed concern that further consolidation could erode the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Birkler, John, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *AIRCRAFT...
The average age of a typical Navy shipboard network is about seven years. These networks and the systems and applications that reside on them are an amalgam of disparate hardware and operating software that were developed and introduced onboard largely independent from one another. The Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) initiative is designed to consolidate and improve the networks on tactical platforms, largely through a common computing environment. The Navy Program...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *SHIPBOARD, *NETWORKS,...
The Persian Gulf Conflict provided the first major test of Total Force Policy. It was: the first large scale call-up and use of reserve forces since the Korean War; the first major conflict under the Department of Defense's (DoD) Total Force Policy; and the first call-up using the new authority to access reserves provided by the Congress in 1976. Consequently, Operation Desert Shield /Storm (ODS/S) provides unique empirical data about calling up, mobilizing, and deploying the reserve military...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *PERSIAN GULF WAR, *MILITARY...
The Defense Department is concerned about emerging chemical and biological (CB) weapon agents and the ability of U.S. defenses to counter them. Due to scientific advances that facilitate the development of new and novel CB agents and the fact that uncovering such work will be a difficult intelligence challenge, the Emerging Threat Agent Project (ETAP) undertook a study to examine the challenges of emerging CB agents and propose measures to reduce their risks. The authors conclude that the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AGENTS,...
The successful revolts in early 2011 against long-entrenched autocrats in Egypt and Tunisia were a remarkable human achievement. By the end of 2011, Tunisia had crossed the threshold to becoming an electoral democracy. Over the course of the year, ragtag groups of rebels steadily gained ground in their ultimately successful quest to push Libya s dictator from power. And by early 2012, a handover of power was under way in Yemen after a yearlong uprising; Syrian authorities were brutally...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *DEMOCRACY, *MIDDLE EAST, ASIA,...
A Hizballah raid along the Lebanon-Israel border on July 12, 2006, resulted in the capture of two IDF soldiers and others killed and wounded. The response from Jerusalem was both quick and violent, surprising Hizballah's leadership and triggering a monthlong conflict that, in retrospect, has been labeled the Second Lebanon War. (Lebanese tend to call the conflict the July War. The term Second Lebanon War is used throughout the following pages to avoid confusion.) The event left the IDF a...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *ISRAEL, *WARFARE, LEBANON,...
In early 2014, representatives of the Syrian government and opposition rebel groups met for a UN-mediated peace conference--the so-called Geneva II talks. The sides met and talked for a week--no small achievement--but ended the conference without progress or result, or even a firm commitment to meet again. The failure at the Geneva II talks was emblematic of a deeper reality that policymakers and analysts are loath to admit: There is almost no prospect for a negotiated solution to the civil war...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *NEGOTIATIONS, AGREEMENTS,...
The rise of Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has led to arguments in favor of U.S.-Iran cooperation in combating the group, as immediate American and Iranian interests in Iraq are very similar: Both countries view ISIL and the broader Sunni jihadi movement as major threats to their national interests. American and Iranian military forces in Iraq are fighting the same enemy and, on the surface, U.S. air power seems to complement Iran s on-the-ground presence in Iraq. While the United...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS,...
In 2012, RAND published a report titled U.S. Military Information Operations in Afghanistan: Effectiveness of Psychological Operations 2001 2010,1 which concluded that there was a disconnect between the doctrine and practice of information operations (IO) in the field that was counterproductive to effective and efficient operations. The report made several recommendations for improving the effectiveness of IO in Afghanistan, including the need for a cohesive strategy better integrating IO with...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *MILITARY DOCTRINE, *MILITARY...
The Department of Defense (DoD) is seeking cost savings but wants to ensure that the nation s defense requirements continue to be met. The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (OSD P&R) asked RAND to provide an assessment of whether the rate of increase in military pay should be slowed. While slowing the increase in pay could provide cost savings, it is important to consider whether doing so would adversely affect the department s ability to recruit an...
Topics: DTIC Archive, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *MILITARY PERSONNEL, *SALARIES,...
Chemical and biological threats confront U.S. military personnel today both overseas and in the continental United States, whether in defensive, peacekeeping, or offensive situations. Defenses against such threats are both medical and nonmedical. Drugs and biologics, mainly vaccines, constitute the primary medical defenses. Consequently, efforts of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to protect American troops require the acquisition of drugs and biologics for chemical and biological warfare...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Rettig, Richard A, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA, *ACQUISITION,...
In February 2006, the Department of Defense (DoD) published its Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). As part of the process of producing the QDR, the Department internally published a human capital strategy (HCS) that focused on developing the right mix of people and skills to help DoD and the military services carry out the missions necessary for the security of the United States. Although the HCS has been distributed, it would be inappropriate to view it as static. Almost from the time it was...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Hanser, Lawrence M, RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA,...
