This monograph describes spend analyses that the Rand Corporation conducted in 2002 for the first phase of a purchasing and supply management demonstration conducted at the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center for purchases of F100 jet engine spares and repair services and jet engine bearings. The authors provide details on the required data and processes involved in a spend analysis and discuss the implications of their findings for F100 purchasing and supplychain management for future spend analyses.

The F100 Engine Purchasing and Supply Chain Management Demonstration: Findings from Air Force Spend Analyses (Project Air Force)

History

Grammich, Clifford A.

Chenoweth, Mary E.

Military

RAND Corporation

Over the past several decades, increases in acquisition costs for U.S. Navy combatants have outpaced the rate of inflation. To understand why, the authors of this book examined two principal source categories of ship cost escalation (economy-driven factors and customer-driven factors) and interviewed various shipbuilders. Based on their analysis, the authors propose some ways the Navy might reduce ship costs in the future.

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

Younossi, Obaid

Blickstein, Irv

Arena, Mark

Reference

<p>Purchased goods and services are a large and increasingly important proportion of enterprise budgets. The authors review literature describing how private enterprises have addressed this issue. While noting that no one process is likely to fit all circumstances, they offer a set of steps synthesized from the literature for analyzing an enterprise's total spending on commodities and developing purchasing strategies for specific commodities.</p>

Developing Tailored Supply Strategies

Business & Money

Bickel, Robert

Moore, Nancy Y.

Management & Leadership

This report explores why, in recent decades, military fixed-wing aircraft costs have escalated beyond the rates of commonly used inflation indices, examining both economy-driven factors that the Services cannot control and customer-driven ones that they can. The authors found that this trend of cost increases is true for all types of aircraft patrol, cargo, trainer, bomber, attack, fighter, and electronic warfare.

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

Arena, Mark V.

Brancato, Kevin

Economics

The U.S. Navy1s aircraft carrier fleet must meet the forward presence requirements of theater commanders. With a decreasing fleet size, planners must balance the timing of maintenance, training, and deployment with presence and surge demands. Evaluating multiple one- and two-deployment scenarios per cycle, RAND examines the feasibility of different cycle lengths, their effect on carrier forward presence, and their impact on shipyard workloads.

Increasing Aircraft Carrier Forward Presence: Changing the Length of the Maintenance Cycle

Schank, John F.

Kallimani, James G.

Yardley, Roland J.

Much of the training for the engineering watchstanders of Arleigh Burke-class destroyers that is currently done underway could be done in port. Training could also be done on simulators at considerable savings in time, money, fuel, and ship wear and tear. This monograph discusses how training simulator use could improve engineering watchstanders1 proficiency before ships go to sea, reserving time at sea for fine-tuning the training.

Engineering Training: How Simulators Can Help

Engineering & Transportation

Smallman, Laurence

Engineering

A summary of the presentations, discussions, and opinions offered by panelists at a National Summit on Police Recruitment and Retention in the Contemporary Urban Environment held at RAND in June 2008. Topics examined include changing police workforce issues, strategies being employed, lessons that could be learned from other organizations such as the military, and in-depth analyses of police recruiting and retention in selected cities.

Police Recruitment and Retention in the Contemporary Urban Environment: A National Discussion of Personnel Experiences and Promising Practices from the Front Lines (Conference Proceedings)

Wilson, Jeremy M.

Business Culture

Many police departments report difficulties in creating a workforce that represents community demographics, is committed to providing its employees the opportunity for long-term police careers, and effectively implements community policing. This book summarizes lessons on recruiting and retaining effective workforces.

Police Recruitment and Retention for the New Millennium: The State of Knowledge

Dalton, Erin

Scheer, Charles

Growing concern about U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) contracts for private-sector services led Congress to mandate the development of the DoD Inventory of Contracted Services to collect information on the activities performed under DoD services contracts. RAND was asked to conduct a review of the system’s data, congressional and other stakeholder needs, and whether these needs could be met by other databases.

A Review of Alternative Methods to Inventory Contracted Services in the Department of Defense

Dunigan, Molly

Cherney, Samantha

Camm, Frank

Mele, Judith D.

Peet, Evan D.

Szafran, Anita

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