International joint development programs are important because of their potential to reduce costs and increase partnership benefits such as interoperability, economies of scale, and technical advancement. While all major development and acquisition programs are complex undertakings, international joint development programs introduce additional layers of complexity in the requirement for coordination with more than one government customer, supply chain and organizational complexities resulting from international industrial teaming, and technology control issues. The performance of international joint development programs varies greatly. This study compares the best practices of international joint development and domestic development programs through case-study analysis to identify the key variables that contribute to a program’s eventual success or failure and to understand the elements that are crucial to managing these programs.

Designing and Managing Successful International Joint Development Programs (CSIS Reports)

Politics & Social Sciences

Sanders, Gregory

Cohen, Samantha

Politics & Government

Center for Strategic & International Studies

This report analyzes the current state of affairs in defense acquisition by combining detailed policy and data analysis to provide a comprehensive overview of the current and future outlook for defense acquisition. This analysis will provide critical insights into what DoD is buying, how DoD is buying it, from whom is DoD buying, and what are the defense components buying using data from the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS). This analysis provides critical insights into understanding the current trends in the defense industrial base and the implications of those trends on acquisition policy.

Acquisition Trends, 2018: Defense Contract Spending Bounces Back (CSIS Reports)

McCormick, Rhys

Hunter, Andrew P.

Pay attention, class! Here is an inside look into the wandering mind of a sixth grader. The teacher asks a question only to be met with glossy-eyed empty stares. Their bodies are present, but where are their minds? Off on an adventure that enraptures the imagination!In the stories contained herein, you will discover the worlds and characters that captivated the minds of the 2012-2013 Sixth Grade Class of Ville de Marie Academy:There is no time for long division when you are a World War II pilot evading capture by the Nazis in a German occupied France.Don't bother with cafeteria food when you can spend a summer teaching your own cooking class, vacationing at Disneyland, and foiling the plots of thieves.Even the most captivating grammar lesson cannot compare to visiting a world with elves, dwarves, wizards, goblins, orcs, dragons, centaurs, taurens, demons, witches, and werewolves.No need for show-and-tell when one of your family heirlooms is a magical crystal endowed with strange powers.Greek mythologies will not hold the attention of a student journeying to discover the truth of a mythical gem that is close to home.Dodge ball loses its luster when you are roaming the woods as a huntress armed with bow and arrows.Reading a textbook is quite stale when, instead, you can join a boy on a quest to save kingdoms.Pay attention class! For if their minds wander, their imaginations will be off on an adventure.

Inside the Adventurous Mind of a Sixth Grader: Stories from the 2012-2013 Sixth Grade Class of Ville de Marie Academy

Literature & Fiction

Ville de Marie Academy, 6th Grade Class

Dwyer, John Paul

Debates, Theresa

Rosedale, Kateri

Chang, Paula

Stender, Francisco

Dwyer, Bridget

Short Stories & Anthologies

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) launched the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIG) program to award predisaster mitigation grants. FEMA asked the Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center (HSOAC) to develop metrics-quantitative measurements of important concepts-that can inform decisionmaking for the BRIG program. Building from discussions with program leadership, a review of stakeholder comments, and a close reading of BRIO'S legal requirements., the authors established three lines of effort (LoEs) for analysis. The indirect benefits line reviewed published measurement techniques and blended them into instructions for an input-output simulation model that better measures the full benefit to a community of mitigating an asset. The applicant institutional capability (AIC) line reviewed analogous research and interviewed subject-matter experts to develop a checklist for assessing the ability of applicants to propose or execute mitigation projects, focusing on staff retention, skills, and experience, as well as management capacity and technical capacity. The community resilience line developed an assessment framework based on BRIC's legal requirements, discussions with BRIC leadership, and standard best practices in measurement. Then, the LoE conducted a preliminary review of published resilience metrics, highlighting the potential value of action-based community resilience metrics for performance evaluation, population-based metrics for equity evaluation, and building code-based metrics as needed to improve statutory compliance. Each LoE produced a metric or framework for assessing metrics that could support BRIC grant decisionmaking and program performance evaluation. The report concludes with 11 recommendations for FEMA to consider. Book jacket.

Developing Metrics and Scoring Procedures to Support Mitigation Grant Program Decisionmaking

Mendelsohn, Joshua

Dixon, Lloyd

Johnson, Grant

Klima, Kelly

Steratore, Rachel

Kirkwood, Geoffrey

Hastings, Jaime L.

Steinberg, Paul S.

Social Sciences

RAND Corporation

Relative Contractor Risks: A Data-Analytic Approach to Early Identification

Shelton, William

Ohlandt, Chad J.R.

Anton, Philip S.

McKErnan, Megan

Ryseff, James

Joplin, Stephen B.

Reference

Early Predictive Indicators of Contractor Performance: A Data-Analytic Approach

Kravitz, David

Vigo Camargo, Alejandro

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