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INVENTORYING DATA TO SUPPORT ARMY HARMFUL BEHAVIOR PREVENTION METRICS.Author: NAPublisher: RAND CorporationPublication Date: Oct 30, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

The People's Liberation Army's (PLA's) ability to project and sustain power relies on its logistics capabilities. The authors examine the PLA's approach to maintenance to inform a broader...

To help the Army accomplish its diversity goals, RAND Arroyo Center examined retention of racial-ethnic minorities in the Regular Army's enlisted and officer ranks and how racial-ethnic composition...

The Department of the Air Force is seeking artificial intelligence and machine learning systems for mission areas and support functions. The authors reviewed how private-sector organizations assess...

The return of great-power competition has highlighted the risks of conflict with nuclear-armed great powers. Such a conflict would entail escalation risks that the United States has not seriously...

In this report, the authors assess the equities (i.e., long-term interests) of four middle powers--Australia, Canada, Japan, and the United Kingdom--and their roles in deterring or limiting conflict...

The National Guard Youth ChalleNGe program is a residential, quasi-military program for youth ages 16 to 18 who are experiencing difficulty in traditional high school. This report covers the...

This research on National Guard Youth ChalleNGe and Job ChalleNGe integrates analyses of staff and participant perspectives with information from participant files and national and state datasets to...

To support distributed maritime operations in the Western Pacific, the U.S. Navy needs new approaches to logistics and the resupply and sustainment of distributed units. The authors identify...

The existing research infrastructure of Jackson, Mississippi, presents an opportunity to meet a growing need for education, workforce development, and leadership in the areas of artificial...

The authors assess how roles, responsibilities, and authorities (RRA) that shape the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) process are defined in policy and implemented in practice by stakeholders at...

Paratus Futurum Strategic Gaming : Priming the U.S. Coast Guard for the FutureAuthor: Michelle D Ziegler, Bryan Rooney, Aaron C DavenportPublisher: RAND CorporationPublication Date: Aug 31,...

This report presents an analysis of the pathways from climate change to conflict and how that relationship is unfolding in the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) area of responsibility (AOR). The...

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) System is a key enabler for DoD to fulfill its mission. But in light of a dynamic threat environment,...

In this first volume of four reports examining nine case studies of budgeting processes across comparative organizations, RAND Corporation researchers conduct case studies of the defense budgeting...

In this second volume of four reports examining nine case studies of defense budgeting processes across comparative organizations, RAND researchers conducted case studies of the budgeting processes...

This report, part of a four-volume set, presents case studies of planning, programming, budgeting, and execution (PPBE) functions in four federal agencies comparable to the U.S. Department of Defense...

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process is a key enabler for DoD to fulfill its mission. But in light of a dynamic threat environment,...

The Department of Defense (DoD) requires both current and projected estimates of the size of its workforce population with specific categories of disabilities. These estimates support the...

Authors researched public perceptions of government use of facial recognition technology and other artificial intelligence technologies, including through a nationally representative survey.Author:...

Prepared for the Department of the Air ForceAuthor: Shamena Anwar, Jhacova Williams, Nelson LimPublisher: Rand CorporationPublication Date: Apr 10, 2024Number of Pages: 120 pagesLanguage:...

There are concerns that the rate at which China and Russia can field new technologies exceeds the rate at which the U.S. Air Force can replicate those technologies in operational test and training...

The authors develop a methodology to define, assess, and evaluate resilience criteria over time and use the methodology to evaluate the impact of partnerships on the operational resilience of the U.S...

The authors examine how allied planning, programming, budgeting, and execution-like mechanisms enable or hinder collaboration across the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization amid...

The authors offer a framework for how the U.S. Department of Defense might conduct a strategic readiness assessment and apply it to two defense policy issues: munitions procurement and planning...

This report presents some of the challenges that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) may face in fielding an artificial intelligence technology called reinforcement learning--which expands the...

Researchers describe six case studies of nondeclared disasters in diverse community contexts, considering innovations that support recovery in underserved communities and metrics for assessing...

In this report, the author presents an evaluation of the effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine from February 2022 to August 2023 on Russian military manpower and the potential future...

Private-sector companies are applying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to diverse business functions, including human resource management (HRM), to great effect. The Department...

In this report, part of RAND's Gun Policy in America initiative, researchers seek objective information about what scientific literature reveals about the likely effects of various gun laws. In the...