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Innovative Development - Global Hawk and DarkStar
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...
Innovative Development
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95In 1994 the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency initiated an effort to facilitate the development of UAVs through the use of an innovative acquisition strategy. This report addresses the effect of that strategy on the flight test program of two air vehicles: Global Hawk and DarkStar. more...
Innovative Development - Global Hawk and DarkStar
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95This title looks at the effect of new acquisition strategies on an unmanned aerial vehicle's transition from one agency to another as well as from development and test to production. more...
Innovative Development Executive Summary
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95An assessment of the innovative management approach used to develop two unmanned aerial vehicles. The HAE UAV Management Approach Was Highly Innovative Activity Content Changed Substantially from the Plan Cost to the Government Remained Stable While Costs Grew and Activity Content Changed Overall Schedule Grew Only Moderately UFP Was Not Met... more...
Assessing the Use of Other Transactions Authority for Prototype Projects
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95"Other Transactions" authority provides the Department of Defense with the latest commercial market technologies while reducing the burden of an extensive procurement process to the contractor. more...
Reforming MIL-Specs: the Navy Experience with Military Specifications and Standards Reform (2001)
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95This study helps to determine why Navy military specifications and standards reform (MSSR) was not completed within budget or in accordance with a self-imposed schedule. The report defines the status of navy reforms, and looks for reasons why the Navy missed its self-imposed reform completion date. more...
Implementing Proactive Environmental Management
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95This work analyses how firms have applied proactive approaches in areas of environmental management relevant to: weapon system design; management of environmental cleanup; and other areas. It then draws implications for the US Department of Defense's environmental management efforts in these areas. more...
Competition and Innovation in the U.S. Fixed-Wing Military Aircraft Industry
RAND Corporation 2003; US$ 9.95Responds to Senate?s concerns that further consolidation in the military-aircraft industry from its current three prime contractors would pose risks to innovation and cost through limited or no competition in contracting for military aircraft and related weapon systems for the Defense Department. Describes that industry, evaluates what is required... more...
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