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Diagnosing the Army's Equipment Readiness
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95To keep its equipment ready to fight, the Army needs metrics that portray its condition both in the motor pool and during missions. This work provides an integrated set of metrics that tie equipment sustainment and reliability to equipment readiness. more...
Equipment Sustainment Requirements for the Transforming Army
RAND Corporation 2003; US$ 9.95The Army must improve the sustainability-driven by reliability, maintainability, fleet life cycle management effectiveness, and supply support effectiveness-of its future systems. To do this, the Army needs to identify a set of equipment sustainment requirements for its weapon system programs aligned with future operating concepts. more...
Integrating the Department of Defense Supply Chain
RAND Corporation 2012; US$ 9.95Provides a guide for the design and improvement of Department of Defense supply chain policy, structure, and management practices, along with associated opportunities for efficiency gains. more...
Combat Service Support Transformation
RAND Corporation 2003; US$ 9.95To be a strategically responsive force, the Army must be able to rapidly move or project forces with sufficient power to execute a broad spectrum of missions. This briefing examines the Army?s strategies for transforming its combat service support (CSS) activities in support of this power projection goal. more...
Speed and Power
RAND Corporation 2003; US$ 9.95Using a case study based on the Army?s new Stryker Brigade Combat Team, the authors explore how the Army might improve its ability to contribute to prompt, global power projection, that is, strategically responsive early-entry forces for time-critical events. more...
The Effects of Equipment Age On Mission Critical Failure Rates
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95Budget limits have brought about extensions in the service lives of many Army weapon systems. In the widespread belief that the increases in fleet age will create readiness and cost problems, the Army is executing recapitalization programs to rebuild or upgrade selected weapon systems to retain combat capabilities and hold down maintenance costs. more...
Value Recovery from the Reverse Logistics Pipeline
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95Value recovery, in the form of the return and repair of reparable spare parts, involves sizable investments of time and inventory. This monograph describes metrics developed to evaluate the Army?s retrograde processes. Baseline repair times were found to be long: over a month for items repaired below depot and returned to stock. more...
Supporting Expeditionary Aerospace Forces
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...
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