This report examines the package of new tools and techniques known as lean production to see if it would enable aircraft manufacturers to produce new weapon systems at costs below those predicted by historical cost estimating models.

Military Airframe Acquisition Costs: The Effects of Lean Manufacturing

Business & Money

Cook, Cynthia R.

Economics

RAND Corporation

The Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom has selected the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) as a replacement for its Harrier aircraft and may purchase up to 150 JSF aircraft. This volume examines overlap of final assembly and repair, the suitability of four UK aerospace companies as potential sites for final assembly, associated costs, and technology transfer implications.

Assembling and Supporting the Joint Strike Fighter in the Uk: Issues and Costs

History

Arena, Mark V.

Younossi, Obaid

Graser, John C.

Pung, Hans

Sollinger, Jerry

Military

UNKNO

Price-based acquisition (PBA), a major acquisition reform measure being used by the Department of Defense (DoD), is claimed to reduce costs and enhance acquisition efficiency. This study presents findings based on structured interviews and case studies to determine whether the claims are true and what potential benefits PBA may hold for DoD.

Price Based Acquistion:Issues & Challenges for Defense

Recommends measures and structures the U.K. Ministry of Defense can adopt to better amanage its risks and responsibilities in submarine acquistion.

The United Kingdom's Nuclear Submarine Industrial Base, Volume 2: Ministry of Defence Roles and Required Technical Resources

MURPHY, ROBERT

Schank, John F.

Chiesa, James

RAND identified and reviewed international contestability practices on behalf of the Australian Department of Defence (ADoD), which is restructuring its military capability acquisition process. A key component of this restructuring is the establishment of an internal contestability capability to assess ADoD’s requirements, acquisition, and budget decisions internally before they are passed to other elements in the government.

Contestability Frameworks: An International Horizon Scan

Oberholtzer, Jenny

Sollinger, Jerry M.

Lee, Gordon T.

McKErnan, Megan

Westerman, Emma

Ahtchi, Badreddine

Shontz, Douglas

Management & Leadership

Recovery in the U.S. Virgin Islands: Progress, Challenges, and Options for the Future

Culbertson, Shelly

Lauland, Andrew

Acosta, Joie D.

Nuñez-Neto, Blas

Americas

The United States newest military service, the U.S. Space Force (USSF), has a unique opportunity to take advantage of the widening range of commercial capabilities and create a new culture and new management processes to respond to the growing challenges presented by potential adversaries in space. The authors describe an unconstrained ?clean sheet? approach to space acquisition for USSF designed around the new service?s unique mission.

A Clean Sheet Approach to Space Acquisition in Light of the New Space Force

Science & Math

Shelton, William

Camm, Frank

Newberry, Sydne

Gehlhaus, Diana

Kim, Yool

Barton, Charlie

Eusebi, Kelly Elizabeth

Kim, Moon

Steiner, Colby P.

Research

Given new and increasingly sophisticated threats from peer and near-peer adversaries, the authors provide an analysis of intelligence support to the U.S. Air Force acquisition community, identifying disincentives to seeking threat-informed analysis and proposing ways to enhance information sharing and workforce development to improve the integration of intelligence and acquisition.

Improving Intelligence Support to the Future Warfighter: Acquisition for the Contested Environment

Engineering & Transportation

Reininger, Hilary

Knopp, Bradley

Luckey, David

Shokh, Yuliya

Abdelfatah, Yousuf

Casler, Don

Sudkamp, Karen M.

Engineering

As the U.S. Space Force (USSF) pursues rapid acquisition of warfighting capabilities, a key question is whether the streamlining techniques being used to get new space systems to operators quickly create mission assurance vulnerabilities. The authors of this report examine the techniques being used to accelerate USSF acquisition, the risks associated with them, their potential impact on mission assurance, and the possible mitigations.

Ensuring Mission Assurance While Conducting Rapid Space Acquisition

Sousa, Éder

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