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Environmental Management in Proactive Commercial Firms
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95This study focuses on how commercial firms recognized as having the best environmental management practices in the USA, have implemented those practices, specifically addressing those relevant to the Department of Defense's central logistics activities. more...
Effective Treatment of Logistics Resource Issues in the Air Force Planning, Programming and Budgeting System (PPBS) Process
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...
How Should the U.S. Air Force Depot Maintenance Activity Group Be Funded?
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95The authors find that a large portion of Air Force depot-level costs are unrelated to flying hours, so an alternative approach to budgeting and pricing is warranted to better link budgets and prices on the one hand and activity levels in the operating commands on the other. more...
Analyzing the Operation of Performance-Based Accountability Systems for Public Services
RAND Corporation 2010; US$ 9.95This report describes a framework to evaluate a form of performance-based management, a performance-based accountability system, which identifies behavior changes needed to improve performance, an incentive structure, and performance measures. more...
Integrated Facility Environmental Management Approaches
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95Commercial facilities have discovered that pursuing integrated, facilitywide approaches to environmental management is good for the environment and makes good business sense. This title offers insights on how to implement integrated approaches successfully. more...
Recent Large Service Acquisitions in the Department of Defense
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95New approaches to the acquisition of services and the related policy issues in which the Office of the Secretary of Defense is likely to become involved. Six case studies, representing a range of new approaches used to identify policy issues in which OSD is likely to become involved, relevant to large service acquisitions. more...
Federal Contract Bundling: A Framework for Making and Justifying Decisions for Purchased Services
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95This work discusses recent legislation designed to protect small businesses by ensuring that bundling occurs only when it is likely to generate "measurably substantial" increases in performance or reductions in cost to the federal buyer. 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...
What the Army Needs to Know to Align Its Operational and Institutional Activities
RAND Corporation 2007; US$ 9.95As the U.S. Army transforms its operating force, inevitably the institutional Army-the generating force that fills and sustains the Armys combat units-must change as well. The Army must transform its institutional activities to (1) align them with operating forces in ways that improve support, and (2) release resources from institutional... more...
Producing Liquid Fuels from Coal
RAND Corporation 2008; US$ 9.95Large U.S. coal reserves and viable technology make promising a domestic. industry producing liquid fuels from coal. Weighing benefits, costs, and. environmental issues, a productive and robust U.S. strategy is to promote a. limited amount of early commercial experience in coal-to-liquids production. and to prepare the foundation for managing associated... more...









