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Mastering the Ultimate High Groundby Benjamin S. Lambeth
RAND Corporation 1999; US$ 9.95Assesses the military space challenges facing the Air Force and the nation in light of the findings and recommendations of the Space Commission. The author reviews the Air Force's involvement in space since its creation as an independent service in 1947; examines the circumstances that occasioned the commission's creation and the conceptual and organizational roadblocks that have impeded a more rapid growth of U.S. military space capability; and enumerates the challenges facing the Air Force with respect to space. more...
Space Weapons, Earth Warsby Robert Preston; Dana J. Johnson; Sean J.A. Edwards; Jennifer Gross; Michael Miller
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95An exploration of the possibility, utility, legalities and limitations of the military use of space, specifically the use in space of weapons or defences for terrestrial conflict. The authors define and classify these weapons, describe their attributes, and explain how they might be used. more...
Final Assembly and Checkout Alternatives for the Joint Strike Fighterby Cynthia R. Cook
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95This work analyzes alternative strategies for final assembly and checkout (FACO) of the Joint Strike Fighter. It found that no efficiency, effectiveness, or cost reasons exist to move FACO operations, or to split them between two sites or across multiple sites. more...
Aging Aircraftby Raymond A. Pyles
RAND Corporation 2003; US$ 9.95To help improve the Air Force's ability to forsee the implications for safety, aircraft availability and cost of its plans to retain aircraft fleets for service lives that may last 80 years, this study measures how aircraft fleets ages relate to maintenance workloads and material consumption. more...
Military Jet Engine Acquisitionby Obaid Younossi; Mark V. Arena; Richard Moore; Mark Lorell; Joanna Mason
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95This text adds new observations to the cost-estimating database from earlier RAND studies and presents a method for forecasting the development cost, development time, and production cost of future military engine programmes. more...
An Overview of Acquisition Reform Cost Savings Estimatesby Mark A. Lorell; John C. Graser
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95A report on acquisition reform (AR), or the institution of changes in government acquisition processes or in the relationship between the government and the Department of Defense "primes". It asks whether estimates made on the efficacy of AR measures are robust enough to be of predictive value. more...
Innovative Development - Global Hawk and DarkStarby Robert S. Leonard; Jeffrey A. Drezner
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95Since the 1970s, efforts to develop unmanned aerial vehicles have been severely hampered by escalating costs, slipped schedules, and disappointing operational results. This text provides an evaluation of new acquisition strategies for the development of unmanned aerial vehicles. more...
Supporting Expeditionary Aerospace Forcesby Eric Peltz; Hyman L. Shulman; Robert S. Ramey Tripp; John G. Drew
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95The goal of the Expeditionary Aerospace Force (EAF) is to be a rapidly deployable strategic force. This book argues that consolidating F-15 avionics intermediate maintenance and supporting operations from regional support bases would be a better way of achieving that goal than is presently used. more...
Assessing Competitive Strategies for the Joint Strike Fighterby John Birkler
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95This work examines options for competition in the Joint Strike Fighter production phase and recommends forming a second industry team that could compete to develop and manufacture the next major upgrade of the mission system equipment. more...
Effective Treatment of Logistics Resource Issues in the Air Force Planning, Programming and Budgeting System (PPBS) Processby Frank Camm; Leslie Lewis
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95The authors of this report propose strategic and policy changes to help the Air Force manage and fund its supply chain in an integrated manner and use closed-loop accountability systems to manage the chain, end-to-end, against its customers' goals. more...









