RAND has been providing ongoing analysis of the defense acquisition workforce; this volume documents the methods and data and provides a user’s manual for a model for projecting the future workforce supply.

Analyses of the Department of Defense Acquisition Workforce: Update to Methods and Results through FY 2011

Computers & Technology

Gates, Susan M.

Daugherty, Lindsay

Roth, Elizabeth

Srinivasan, Sinduja

Computer Science

RAND Corporation

Provides a framework that the Department of Defense (DoD) can use to organize the strategic initiatives outlined in its 2012 Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan. The framework emphasizes the creation of an enduring accountability system and categorizes DoD’s strategic initiatives along three key dimensions—compliance, communication, and coordination (“the three Cs”)—and prioritizes them across time—short, medium, and long term.

Implementation of the DoD Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan: A Framework for Change Through Accountability

Business & Money

Haddad, Abigail

Lim Executive Director Fels, Nelson

Business Culture

In the 2010–2011 school year, two educational programs launched in New Haven, Connecticut: New Haven School Change, a sweeping K–12 educational reform to improve the learning of educational outcomes of its students, and New Haven Promise, a scholarship program intended to improve college-going culture and encourage graduates to attend college. This report documents a study of early progress in these programs.

Transforming an Urban School System: Progress of New Haven School Change and New Haven Promise Education Reforms (2010–2013)

History

Ryan, Sarah

Singh, Reema

Gonzalez, Gabriella C.

Bozick, Robert

Scherer, Ethan

Suarez, Monica Jacobo

Americas

Rand researchers conducted a formal review of 13 programs that received Beyond Yellow Ribbon appropriations in fiscal year 2013, helping to identify programs with strong records of success and develop a nationwide set of promising practices.

An Assessment of Fiscal Year 2013 Beyond Yellow Ribbon Programs

Schaefer, Agnes Gereben

Werber, Laura

Wenger, Jennie W.

Rudnick, Mollie

Military

This report assesses the Texas experience in the context of national competency-based higher-education movement. Competency-based education in Texas is examined through six institutions that currently offer these programs and recent state efforts to support them. The approach included review of relevant documents, webpages, and interviews with program administrators, a sample of students enrolled in one of the programs, and a state policymaker.

Competency-Based Education Programs in Texas: An Innovative Approach to Higher Education

Education & Teaching

Davis, Van L.

Miller, Trey

Schools & Teaching

This report examines Single Stop U.S.A.'s Community College Initiative, a program designed to improve the well-being of low-income communities by connecting individuals to public benefits and other institutional and community resources to address nonacademic barriers to college completion.

Connecting College Students to Alternative Sources of Support: The Single Stop Community College Initiative and Postsecondary Outcomes

Johnston, William R.

Berglund, Tiffany

Higher & Continuing Education

UNKNO

RAND researchers assessed gaps in business acumen and knowledge of industry present within the U.S. defense acquisition workforce. They identified apparent knowledge gaps, possible reasons for their existence, and potential approaches to closing them. The report also addresses the role of industry and external educators in helping to close the gaps and includes recommendations to improve how these knowledge gaps are assessed and mitigated.

An Assessment of Gaps in Business Acumen and Knowledge of Industry Within the Defense Acquisition Workforce: A Report Prepared for the U.S. Department ... Year 2018 National Defense Authorization Act

Phillips, Brian

Ausink, John A.

Haberman, Ryan

Knutson, Felix

Management & Leadership

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