This report assesses historical cases of U.S. Air Force innovation or apparent failure to innovate: innovations in strategic reconnaissance, nuclear survivability, suppression of enemy air defenses, and precision strategic attack; and apparent failures to innovate in close air support after World War II, early efforts to defeat Soviet integrated air defenses, and airborne high-value targeting in the post–Cold War era.

Innovation in the United States Air Force: Evidence from Six Cases

History

Lee, Caitlin

Mueller, Karl P.

Grissom, Adam R.

Military

RAND Corporation

The federal government is working to enable simple and strategic hiring practices. Toward this end, the authors identified best practices for recruiting, hiring, and compensation in 41 federal demonstration projects and alternative personnel systems that began between January 2008 and May 2019. These best practices offer solutions for agencies seeking to modernize and refine current personnel programs.

Federal Civilian Workforce Hiring, Recruitment, and Related Compensation Practices for the Twenty-First Century: Review of Federal HR Demonstration ... Identify Best Practices and Lessons Learned

Business & Money

DiNicola, Samantha E.

Crosby, Brandon

Mayberry, Paul W.

Tunstall, Ellen E.

Groeber, Ginger

Doboga, Mark

Management & Leadership

This report addresses the issues of promotions, tenure, and other aspects of officer career management that lend themselves to modernization. The authors identify statutory, policy, cultural, and fiscal constraints on the military departments' flexibilities to make changes; they gather service perspectives on these constraints; and they offer potential mitigation strategies.

Officer Career Management: Additional Steps Toward Modernization

Robbert, Albert A.

Kidder, Katherine L.

Schaefer, Agnes Gereben

Waggy, William H.

Lander, Natasha

Job Hunting & Careers

The authors examine potential command-and-control impediments to multidomain operations and propose alternative models for joint all-domain command and control.

Multiple Dilemmas: Challenges and Options for All-Domain Command and Control

Priebe, Miranda

Eaton, Derek

Rhoades, Ashley L.

Rooney, Bryan

McClintock, Bruce

Hodgson, Quentin E.

Spirtas, Michael

Ligor, Douglas C.

Schwindt, Karen

Running the Joint: Air Force Efforts to Build a Joint Task Force Headquarters (Rand Project Air Force)

Webber, Stephen

Shih, Alice

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