| Managing Risk in USAF Force Planning |
Jan-2009 |
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Frank Camm; Forrest E Morgan; Lauren Caston; Alexander C Hou; Alan J Vick; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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 | The U.S. Department of Defense is currently shifting funding from future investment programs to cover urgent war needs, accepting some increase in future risk in order to reduce risk in the near term, and this tension between current and future operational priorities is likely to worsen. To effectively manage risk across possible missions and between today and tomorrow, senior Air Force leaders must make difficult decisions. This monograph seeks to ... |
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| Federal Financial Incentives to Induce Early Experience Producing Unconventional Liquid Fuels |
Jan 2008 |
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| Authors:
Frank Camm; James T Bartis; Charles J Bushman; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| This technical report explains an analytic way to design and assess packages of financial incentives that the government can use to cost effectively promote early experience with coal-to-liquids (CTL) production of liquid fuels in the face of significant uncertainty about the future. The report applies two complementary analytic methods. The first uses observations from successful voluntary agreements in the commercial world to identify principles that the government can use to ... |
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| Producing Liquid Fuels from Coal: Prospects and Policy Issues |
Jan 2008 |
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| Authors:
James T Bartis; Frank Camm; David S Ortiz; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| The increase in world oil prices since 2003 has prompted renewed interest in producing and using liquid fuels from unconventional resources, such as biomass, oil shale, and coal. This book focuses on issues and options associated with establishing a commercial coal-to-liquids (CTL) industry within the United States. The book describes the technical status, costs, and performance of methods that are available for producing liquids from coal; the key energy and ... |
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| Contractors on the Battlefield: When and How? Using the US Military's Risk Management Framework to Learn from the Balkans Support Contract |
30-Apr-2007 |
66 pages |
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Victoria A Greenfield; Frank Camm; NAVAL ACADEMY ANNAPOLIS MD
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 | For centuries, the US military has wrestled with decisions about when and how to use private contractors, especially Contradors on the Battlefield. Reports of mixed performance, inexperienced contracting officers, miscommunication, and profiteering date back to the Revolutionary War. History may be living history, in part, because decision-makers have lacked adequate means of systematically anticipating future outcomes and harvesting lessons from the past. The US military's risk-management framework, a familiar tool ... |
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| What the Army Needs to Know to Align Its Operational and Institutional Activities |
2007 |
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| Authors:
Frank Camm; Cynthia R. Cook; Ralph Masi; Anny Wong; RAND ARROYO CENTER SANTA MONICA CA
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| As the U.S. Army transforms its combat force, inevitably the institutional Army -- the "generating force" that fills and sustains the Army's combat units -- must change as well. Stabilizing soldiers at posts and in units demands different personnel and training routines from those that supported the Army's long-standing "individual replacement" system. Developing and fielding an integrated "system of systems" and delivering it in sets to units entering the force-generation ... |
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| What the Army Needs to Know to Align Its Operational and Institutional Activities: Executive Summary |
2007 |
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| Authors:
Frank Camm; Cynthia R. Cook; Ralph Masi; Anny Wong; RAND ARROYO CENTER SANTA MONICA CA
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| As the U.S. Army transforms its combat force, inevitably the institutional Army -- the "generating force" that fills and sustains the Army's combat units -- must change as well. Stabilizing soldiers at posts and in units demands different personnel and training routines from those that supported the Army's long-standing "individual replacement" system. Developing and fielding an integrated "system of systems" and delivering it in sets to units entering the force-generation ... |
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| How Funding Instability Affects Army Programs |
2007 |
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| Authors:
David Kassing; Robert W. Thomas; Frank Camm; Carolyn Wong; RAND ARROYO CENTER SANTA MONICA CA
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| This study examined funding instability in Army acquisition programs to determine how it affected those programs. A literature review suggested that funding changes often result in adverse effects, but also revealed that there was no common definition of funding instability. The first step of the project was to create a measure of funding instability, which was then applied to 18 Army programs that had been approved for system development and ... |
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| How Funding Instability Affects Army Programs |
2007 |
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| Authors:
David Kassing; R. W. Thomas; Frank Camm; Carolyn Wong; RAND ARROYO CENTER SANTA MONICA CA
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| At any given time, the U.S. Army is supporting many large and small weapon and equipment programs at every stage of the acquisition cycle, from concept development to disposition. And each year, senior-level decision makers make changes, both large and small, to the funding allocations for these individual programs for a host of reasons, such as shifts in priorities and requirements, the emergence of new opportunities, engineering-design modifications, and overall ... |
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| Risk Management and Performance in the Balkans Support Contract |
2005 |
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| Authors:
Victoria A. Greenfield; Frank Camm; RAND ARROYO CENTER SANTA MONICA CA
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| Contractors provide the Army with services in a wide variety of settings and circumstances, both domestic and international. Recent pressures on the Army to rely more heavily on contractors and the increasingly ill-defined nature of the battlefield raise serious questions for policymakers. Is the Army getting what it needs from its combat service support (CSS) contracts? Do those contracts present any unrecognized, unmitigated, or unnecessary risks? If the Army is ... |
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| How Should the Army Use Contractors on the Battlefield? Assessing Comparative Risk in Sourcing Decisions |
2005 |
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| Authors:
Frank Camm; Victoria A. Greenfield; RAND ARROYO CENTER SANTA MONICA CA
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| Using contractors on the battlefield is risky, but the U.S. Army has relied on contractors on the battlefield throughout its history. Beginning with the Vietnam War, a variety of factors have led to growing dependence on contractors. Given the risks that contractors impose, is this increasing dependence appropriate? Throughout history, Army leaders have decried the risks associated with using contractors even as they continued to bring them to the battlefield ... |
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| Regulatory Rulemaking to Implement Congressional Legislation: Lessons from the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978 |
May 1983 |
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| Authors:
Frank Camm; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| Following the Arab oil embargo of 1973-74, support grew rapidly in the United States to replace imported oil with domestic coal wherever possible. Many believed this would not occur fast enough without formal government programs to promote fuel-switching -- switching from oil to coal. The Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978 (FUA) grew out of this public desire to mandate fuel-switching at the federal level. This report describes ... |
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