Debra Knopman, Yvonne K Crane, Don Snyder, Irv Blickstein, David E Thaler, James A Leftwich, Colby Peyton Steiner, Quentin E Hodgson, Elaine Simmons, Krista Romita Grocholski...
RAND Project Air Force assisted the Air Force Warfighting Integration Capability (AFWIC) in conceptualizing analytical and other products to support concept development, options for future force design, and capability development planning....Daugiau...
In support of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) efforts to improve mission effectiveness and efficiency, this report identifies DoD government functions for procurement and acquisition, estimating their costs at between 29 billion and 38 billi...Daugiau...
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 called for a study of “the prevalence and impact of bid protests on DoD acquisitions,” including the systematic collection and analysis of information on their charac...Daugiau...
This tool documents key but enduring aspects of how the Navy implements the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution process so that action officers and Navy leaders can successfully navigate and effectively contribute to the proce...Daugiau...
Jennifer Kavanagh, William Shelton, Megan McKErnan, Kathryn Connor, Abby Doll, Jeffrey A. Drezner, Kristy N. Kamarck, Katherine Pfrommer, Mark V. Arena, Irv Blickstein...
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 sever...Daugiau...
Mark V. Arena, Brian McInnis, Irv Blickstein, Abby Doll, Jeffrey A. Drezner, Megan McKErnan, Charles Nemfakos, Jerry M. Sollinger, John Birkler, Gordon T. Lee...
The authors analyze what motivates defense contractors to determine if better incentives exist to the ones now used, and analyze major defense acquisition programs to see if it is possible to identify programs that might incur a Nunn-McCu...Daugiau...
Mark V. Arena, Rena Rudavsky, Irv Blickstein, Daniel Gonzales, Sarah Harting, Jennifer Lamping Lewis, Michael McGee, Megan McKErnan, Charles Nemfakos, Jan Osburg...
Compares aspects of the Joint Tactical Radio System network domain program with similar elements for the commercial long-term evolution waveform and analyzes acquisition programs that have repeatedly exceeded certain cost thresholds....Daugiau...
Mark V. Arena, Daniel Tremblay, Irv Blickstein, Abby Doll, Jeffrey A. Drezner, Jennifer Kavanagh, Daniel F. McCaffrey, Megan McKErnan, Charles Nemfakos, Jerry M. Sollinger...
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....Daugiau...
To reduce the costs of maintaining the Aegis system, and to take advantage of rapidly evolving commercial computing technology, the U.S. Navy is moving toward open-architecture software, a common source code library, and commercial,...Daugiau...
RAND analysts posit that the ongoing pressure to reduce the federal budget deficit may result in further reductions in the Defense Department budget and suggest starting from a strategy basis in determining the reductions, prioritiz...Daugiau...
Congressional concern with cost overruns, or breaches, in several major defense acquisition programs led the authors, in a partnership with the Performance Assessments and Root Cause Analysis Office in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Acquisit...Daugiau...
Congressional concern with cost overruns, or breaches of Nunn-McCurdy thresholds, in several major defense acquisition programs led the authors, in a partnership with the Performance Assessments and Root Cause Analysis Office in the...Daugiau...
Irv Blickstein, Charles Nemfakos, Michael Boito, Jeffrey A Drezner, James Dryden, Kenneth Horn, James G Kallimani, Martin C Libicki, Megan McKernan, Roger C Molander...
In-sourcing has gained momentum in recent years, but producing definitive guidance that can be used to objectively determine the appropriate balance between contractor and government staff has proven quite challenging. The authors review the recent h...Daugiau...
As Navy aircraft age, leaders must decide whether to modify and upgrade the aging systems or replace them. Preliminary planning has begun as to the feasibility and desirability of a service life extension program (SLEP) on the F/A-18E/F versus buying...Daugiau...
Defense acquisition is one of the most urgent issues that the Department of Defense faces today. In an effort to provide the department and the nation with guidance on defense acquisition challenges in several areas likely to be of critical importanc...Daugiau...
The passage of the Goldwater-Nichols Act ushered in an era of sweeping change in U.S. military acquisition policies and processes. Reform was necessary, but the legislation1s implementation resulted in a host of unintended and undesirable consequence...Daugiau...
This evaluation of the participation of organizations within the Navy Enterprise in the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE) system (1) identifies and describes the current participation of Navy Enterprise organizations in PPBE and (...Daugiau...
