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Expanding the Use of time
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) faces a tightening budget in the coming years. Despite the lean budget years, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are expected to be a priority. Due to their usefulness for intelligence collection in irregular warfare (IW) and counterinsurgency (COIN), UAS were quickly fielded and sent to theater
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Expendable Missiles vs. Reusable Platform Costs and Historical Data
This report evaluates the economic wisdom of relying primarily on expendable weapons, such as cruise missiles, to conduct air-to-ground strike missions. Focusing solely on cost, the author examined the U.S. historical use of air-to-ground attack during and since the Vietnam War, looking, among other
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Improving Mathematics and Science Education
The term reform-oriented teaching describes a collection of instructional practices that are designed to engage students as active participants in their own learning and to enhance the development of complex cognitive skills and processes. This monograph presents the findings of a multiyear National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded
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Launching the Qatar National Research Fund
This report presents an overview of the launch of the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) — the first research-funding organization of its kind in the Middle East — from August 2006 through January 2008. It describes the design and implementation of QNRF's first programs, the Undergraduate Research
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Lessons from the Army's Future Combat Systems Program
The Future Combat Systems (FCS) program was the largest and most ambitious planned acquisition program in the Army's history. The FCS was intended to field not just a system, but an entire brigade, a system of systems, with novel technologies integrated by means of an advanced wireless network.
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Tough Times, Tough Choices in After-School Funding
Cities, sometimes with the help of private funders, have made investments to improve the quality of the after-school programs that they fund. However, the prolonged financial crisis faced by cities has greatly reduced city agency budgets, forcing agency leaders to make difficult choices between cutting student slots or reducing the quality of programming through cuts to professional development and technical assistance given to after-school
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Reducing Long-Term Costs While Preserving a Robust Strategic Airlift Fleet
The current strategic airlift fleet will be reaching the end of its service life in the next few decades, which has raised concerns about the cost and possible budget spike that would result from the need to recapitalize that fleet. This monograph presents the results of a cost-effectiveness analysis to determine
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Rapid Acquisition and Fielding for Information Assurance and Cyber Security in the Navy
Identifying an agile and adaptable acquisition process that can field new information technology capabilities and services in relatively short and responsive time frames is a pressing issue for the U.S. Navy. Damaging malware can mutate within hours or days, requiring a defense that is sufficiently
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Planning Tool to Support
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Outcome Evaluation of U.S. Department of State Support for the Global Methane Initiative
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Ofcom- The effectiveness of converged regulation
As part of a wider study to evaluate the effectiveness of Ofcom as a converged regulator, the National Audit Office commissioned RAND Europe to undertake comparative research on Ofcom in relation to communications regulators in other jurisdictions. This work began in February 2010 and was completed in July 2010. This report presents the findings of the research conducted on five case study areas as follows:
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Money in the Bank -- Lessons Learned from Past Counterinsurgency (COIN) Operations - RAND Counterinsurgency Study -- Paper 4
As insurgent threats evolve and assume new forms, the United States must also evolve in its ability to counter potentially prolonged threats in several parts of the world. Because of the potential for global reach in contemporary insurgencies, the ability to draw on lessons learned from past counterinsurgency (COIN)
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The Compleat Strategyst - Being a Primer on the Theory of Games of Strategy
When The Compleat Strategyst was originally published in 1954, game theory was an esoteric and mysterious subject, familiar only to specialized researchers, particularly in the military. Its prominence today can be traced at least in part to this classic book, which popularized the subject for amateurs, professionals, and students
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Absorbing and Developing Qualified Fighter Pilots - The Role of the Advanced Simulator
What does an individual need to be considered an experienced fighter pilot? The current formal definition is based on how many flying hours a person has, but in practice, the question is more complex and sometimes subjective because an individual requires different kinds of experience for combat positions and staff positions.
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Breaching the Fortress Wall -Understanding Terrorist Efforts to Overcome Defensive Technologies
The level of threat posed by a terrorist group is determined in large part by its ability to build its organizational capabilities and bring those capabilities to bear in violent action. As part of homeland security efforts, technology systems play a key role within a larger, integrated strategy to target groups
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How Do Earnings Change When Reservists Are Activated - A Reconciliation of Estimates Derived from Survey and Administrative Data
Among the many hardships of military activation is the possibility of losing earnings, and although some research points to such a loss, other research suggests that reservists in fact earn substantially more when they are activated. The authors examine earnings reports from the 2004 and 2005 Status of Forces Survey of Reserve Component Members (SOFS-R) and those from administrative data
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Supporting Air and Space Expeditionary Forces - Capabilities and Sustainability of Air and Space Expeditionary Forces
Since 1997, RAND has studied options for configuring an Agile Combat Support (ACS) system that would enable the achievement of Air and Space Expeditionary Force (AEF) goals. Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) offered an opportunity to examine the implementation of new ACS concepts in a wartime environment. In 2000,
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Software Cost Estimation and Sizing Methods - Issues and Guidelines
Accurate estimates of the software cost are a critical part of effective program management, particularly for large, complex systems. Predicting the cost of software has evolved, but the practice of cost prediction is far from perfect. Military and commercial programs alike are replete with examples of software cost estimates that differ
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Implementation of the Diabetes Practice Guideline in the Army Medical Department - Final Evaluation
n partnership with the Army Medical Department (AMEDD), RAND researchers have been working to implement clinical practice guidelines in treatment of three common ailments (diabetes, asthma, and low back pain). This report is an evaluation of the diabetes practice guideline demonstration. It documents the extent to which
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The Maintenance Costs of Aging Aircraft - Insights from Commercial Aviation
The U.S. Air Force is grappling with the challenge of aging fleets and when it might be optimal to replace those fleets. This monograph examines commercial aviation data with the goal of drawing inferences and lessons about aging aircraft that may be relevant to the Air Force. It focuses on
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Infectious Disease and National Security - Strategic Information Needs
The global community has suffered recently from newly emerged infectious diseases and from diseases once thought to be in decline. It now faces the threat of a human influenza pandemic arising from the recently emerged avian influenza H5N1 virus. The pace of global travel, migration, and commerce has increased
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Joint Paths to the Future Force - A Report on Unified Quest 2004
The central study question for the Unified Quest 2004 wargame (UQ 04), cosponsored by Joint Forces Command and the United States Army, focused on identifying the concepts and capabilities required to counteract an adversary who, having lost most of his conventional capability, seeks victory through a
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Understanding Proto-Insurgencies - RAND Counterinsurgency Study -- Paper 3
o gain the size and capabilities of an insurgency, a would-be insurgent movement must create a politically relevant identity; it must espouse a cause that is popular beyond the group; it must gain dominance over rival organizations; and it must find a sanctuary that provides respite from police, intelligence, and military services.
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Air Education and Training Command Cost and Capacity System: Implications for Organizational and Data Flow Changes
It also outlines analytic developments that could help convert raw data into information useful for decisionmakers. The research reported here was sponsored by the Air Education and Training Command (AETC/CV) and HQ Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff, Personnel (AF/DP) and conducted within the Manpower, Personnel, and Training Program of RAND Project AIR FORCE (PAF) at the RAND Corporation. Earlier, PAF explored the requirements of a technical training schoolhouse model to address pipeline capacity. By explicitly capturing resource limitations and uncertainty, the study team anticipated that this simulation tool could assist AETC in making difficult allocation decisions. In part, the...
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American Public Support for U.S. Military Operations from Mogadishu to Baghdad - Technical Appendixes
This document supplies the technical appendixes for a study that describes American public opinion toward the use of military force in support of the global war on terrorism (GWOT), delineates the sources of support and opposition, and identifies potential fault lines in support. The final report is Eric V. Larson and Bogdan Savych,
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Assuring Access in Key Strategic Regions - Toward a Long-Term Strategy
The Army cannot effectively project power if it cannot get to where it needs to go to confront future adversaries. The authors of this report developed scenarios and conducted political-military games to determine what strategies, tactics, and capabilities potential adversaries might use to prevent or complicate U.S. access to
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Analytical Techniques in Materials Conservation
The use of scientific techniques in materials conservation has notably expanded in recent decades. There is much interest in identifying the materials used in culturally important objects. Of great importance is a clear understanding of the state and mechanisms of degradation of objects susceptible to deterioration with time and exposure to environmental factors. An understanding of the state of materials at a molecular level can provide valuable information for conservators, enabling them to decide on a conservation procedure....
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Anoraks to Zitting Cisticola: A Whole Lot of Stuff About Birdwatching
The bayside suburb of St Kilda has long been seen as Melbourne’s seedy underbelly, the equivalent of Sydney’s King’s Cross, London’s Soho, or New York’s Times Square. But as with most of those locations, a decade or two of gentrification has dimmed the red lights somewhat; these days, the only remaining street walkers left in St Kilda are likely to survive not so much because of the blind eye turned by the local vice squad, but due to the National Trust giving the hookers a heritage listing. So leaving my car in an offstreet car park in St Kilda is no longer the anxiety-ridden exercise it may have once been....
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MICROPROCESSORS FROM ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE TO C USING THE PIC18FXX2
We found that students entering our senior design course who had the expectation of something “real” being built were unprepared for doing prototyping activities or for incorporating a microcontroller component into their designs. We did offer a course in microcontrollers, but it was an elective senior-level course and many students had not taken that course previous to senior design. In spring 2002, the Computer Engineering Steering committee reexamined our goals for the first course in microprocessors and the approach for this book was developed. This book is intended for use as a first course in microprocessors using the PIC18Fxx2 microcontroller...
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PIC16F87XA Data Sheet
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