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Assessing the Impact of Future Operations on Trainer Aircraft Requirements
RAND Corporation 2005; US$ 9.95Addresses the impact of changing skills required of fighter, mobility, bomber, and Special Operations Forces pilots on decisions about replacing or extending service lives of trainer aircraft. more...
A Tutorial and Exercises for the Compensation, Accessions and Personnel Management (Capm) Model
RAND Corporation 2003; US$ 9.95The Compensations, Accessions and Personnel Management (CAPM) system, designed to merge data and tools for analysis and to assist co-ordination of policy efforts, is demonstrated in tutorial format, showing how CAPM can be used to model some prototypical policy issues. more...
Air Force Procurement Workforce Transformation
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95To assist the Air Force in the process of significantly changing the way it purchases goods and services, this monograph reviews related commercial-sector activities and skills, suggests models for training programs, and includes a framework of metrics to track progress and refine procurement-workforce-development efforts over time. more...
Users' Guide for the Compensation, Accessions and Personnel Management (CAPM) Model
RAND Corporation 2003; US$ 9.95The Compensation, Accessions and Personnel Management (CAPM) system was designed to merge data and tools for analysis and to assist co-ordination of policy efforts. The report describes the CAPM user interface and discusses the various notebooks used in the software, the settings and options. more...
Background and Theory Behind the Compensation, Accessions and Personnel Management (Capm) Model
RAND Corporation 2003; US$ 9.95The Excel-based Compensation, Accessions and Personnel Management (CAPM) model software package enables analysts to study the potential effects of personnel policy changes on future enlisted inventories in the military services. This text aims to improve understanding of modelling fundamentals. more...
Air Force Service Procurement
RAND Corporation 2005; US$ 9.95To assist the Air Force in the process of changing the way it purchases services, this report reviews related commercial sector practices and suggests metrics to track progress and refine services procurement efforts over time. more...
Measuring Changes in Service Costs to Meet the Requirements of the 2002 National Defense Authorization Act
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95The 2002 National Defense Authorization Act set goals for the Department of Defense to achieve savings in service contract expenditures over a ten-year period through changes in contracting practices and improvements in management techniques. The authors of this report investigate ways to measure whether the Air Force is achieving these cost-reduction... more...
Performance-Based Contracting in the Air Force
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95In recent years, the Office of the Secretary of Defense has initiatedand the Air Force has aggressively implementeda policy aimed at the widespread adoption of performance-based services acquisition (PBSA), an outcome-oriented approach in which the buyer tells the offeror what it needs rather than how to meet that need. more...
Absorbing and Developing Qualified Fighter Pilots
RAND Corporation 2007; US$ 9.95What 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. The authors surveyed training... more...
An Optimization Approach to Workforce Planning for the Information Technology Field
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95Using Fort Bragg as a test case, this report shows how a linear programming framework helps gauge the impact of decisions that change the US Army's IT workforce. The authors conclude that with linear programming the effects of policy changes can be quantified and better understood. more...









