| Navy Enterprises. Evaluating Their Role in Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE) |
Jan-2009 |
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Jessie Riposo; Irv Blickstein; John A Friel; Kindle Fell; RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA
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 | The Navy Enterprise has evolved over the past decade to achieve various objectives from improving efficiencies through lean, six-sigma efforts to producing the workforce of the future. As the objectives, goals, and structure of the organization have changed and grown, so has the very meaning of the Navy Enterprise. Currently, the Navy Enterprise is not only an organizational structure, but is a way of doing business, a behavioral model. However, ... |
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| Domestic Trends in the United States, China, and Iran. Implications for U.S. Navy Strategic Planning |
Jan-2008 |
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Irv Blickstein; Gordon; John IV; Robert W Button; Karla J Cunningham; Toy I Reid; Peter A Wilson; Andreas Goldthau; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| This monograph is the second in a series of strategic studies conducted by the RAND Corporation for the U.S. Navy's Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Assessment Division (N81). The initial research was conducted in the summer and fall of 2006. Entitled Evolving Strategic Trends, Implications for the U.S. Navy, that first study was intended for a select Navy audience. It identified likely major global strategic trends in the ... |
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| Small Ships in Theater Security Cooperation |
2008 |
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Robert W. Button; Irv Blickstein; Laurence Smallman; David Newton; Michele A. Poole; Michael Nixon; RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA
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| The United States entered the War on Terror following the events of September 11, 2001. The National Security Strategy, the National Defense Strategy, and the National Military Strategy have since been altered to accommodate the additional requirements and new priorities needed to win this war. With regard to the U.S. Navy, the Chief of Naval Operations established the following Navy missions in support of the War on Terror: *Deny terrorists ... |
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| Measuring the Statutory and Regulatory Constraints on Department of Defense Acquisition. An Empirical Analysis |
2007 |
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Jeffrey A. Drezner; Irv Blickstein; Raj Raman; Megan McKernan; Monica Hertzman; Melissa A. Bradley; Dikla Gavrieli; Brent Eastwood; RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA
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| Improving the defense acquisition process has been a recurring theme for several decades. Acquisition process reforms often require changes in the body of statutes and regulations governing the acquisition process. Prior research has observed a regulatory pendulum in which statutes and regulations seem to move back and forth from relative flexibility to relative rigidity in response to perceived problems in the acquisition process generally, or in specific weapon system programs. ... |
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| Warfighting and Logistic Support of Joint Forces from the Joint Sea Base |
2007 |
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Robert W. Button; IV Gordon John; Jessie Riposo; Irv Blickstein; Peter A. Wilson; RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA
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| Sea Basing, a fundamental concept in Sea Power 21, the Navy's operational vision for the 21st century, is designed to help joint force commanders accelerate deployment and employment of naval power and to enhance seaborne positioning of joint assets. It will do so by minimizing the need to build up a logistics stockpile ashore, reducing the operational demand for sealift and airlift assets, and permitting forward positioning of joint forces ... |
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| Why Has the Cost of Navy Ships Risen? A Macroscopic Examination of the Trends in U.S. Naval Ship Costs Over the Past Several Decades |
2006 |
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Mark V. Arena; Irv Blickstein; Obaid Younossi; Clifford A. Grammich; RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA
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| Over the past four decades, the growth of U.S. Navy ship costs has exceeded the rate of inflation. This cost escalation concerns many in the Navy and the government. The real growth in Navy ship costs means that ships are becoming more expensive and outstripping the Navy's ability to pay for them. Given current budget constraints, the Navy is unlikely to see an increase in its shipbuilding budget. Therefore, unless ... |
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| Measuring the Statutory and Regulatory Constraints on DoD Acquisition: Research Design for an Empirical Study |
2006 |
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Jeffrey A. Drezner; Raj Raman; Irv Blickstein; John Ablard; Melissa A. Bradley; Brent Eastwood; Maria Falvo; Dikla Gavrieli; Monica Hertzman; Darryl Lenhardt; RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA
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| Over the past two decades, multiple studies have attempted to estimate the cost to major weapon system programs of complying with acquisition-related statutes and regulations. Most studies investigated the cost of compliance only at the contractor level, though program offices, the Services, and OSD would also incur such costs. A majority of these studies defined compliance cost as the additional cost of doing business with DoD. Despite substantial research in ... |
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| A Preliminary Investigation of Ship Acquisition Options for Joint Forcible Entry Operations |
2005 |
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| Authors:
Robert Button; Irv Blickstein; John Gordon; Peter Wilson; Jessie Riposo; RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA
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| In the coming decades, the United States will face security challenges related to not only the continuing global war on terrorism but also to the growing power-projection capabilities of regional states armed with increasingly potent weapons. In the future global security environment, sea basing (a concept for assembling, equipping, launching, and supporting forces from the sea without reliance on land bases) will be critical to the Navy and Marine Corps' ... |
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| Why Has the Cost of Fixed-Wing Aircraft Risen? A Macroscopic Examination of the Trends in U.S. Military Aircraft Costs over the Past Several Decades |
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Obaid Younossi; Irv Blickstein; Kevin Brancato; Mark V Arena; Clifford A Grammich; RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA
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| In recent decades, cost escalation for military fixed-wing aircraft of all types has exceeded that of commonly used in inflation indices, including the Consumer Price Index, the Department of Defense procurement de deflator, and the Gross Domestic Product de deflator. A relatively fixed investment budget (albeit one with cyclical variations) means that the Services must somehow accommodate higher unit costs. This accommodation may mean buying fewer aircraft than in the ... |
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