Analyzes the effects of materials and manufacturing techniques on airframe costs and explores the implications of these effects on acquisition policy.

Military Airframe Costs: The Effects of Advances Materials and Manufacturing Processes: The Effects of Advances Materials and Manufacturing Processes

History

Younossi, Obaid

Military

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

Arena, Mark V.

Cook, Cynthia R.

Graser, John C.

Pung, Hans

Sollinger, Jerry

UNKNO

Examining these two programs illustrates the real difficulties and successes of the U.S. military aircraft acquisition process.

Lessons Learned from the F/A-22 and F/A-18 E/F Development Programs

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

Blickstein, Irv

Grammich, Clifford A.

Arena, Mark

Reference

In recent decades, there have been numerous attempts to rein in the cost growth of U.S. Department of Defense acquisition programs. Drawing on prior Rand research, new analyses of completed and ongoing weapon system programs, and data drawn from Selected Acquisition Reports, this study finds that development cost growth over the past three decades has remained high and without any significant improvement.

Is Weapon System Cost Growth Increasing?: A Quantitative Assessment of Completed and Ongoing Programs

Business & Money

Education & Reference

Congress asked RAND for an independent review of whether the estimated savings from proposed multiyear contracts for 60 F-22A aircraft over three years would yield the promised savings. Researchers found that a multiyear procurement of three lots of F-22A fighters would save an estimated $411 million-about 4.5 percent of the total contract value-and that savings attributed to the multiyear contract by the contractors appear to be reasonable.

F-22A Multiyear Procurement Program: An Assessment of Cost Savings: An Assessment of Cost Savings

Brancato, Kevin

Goldsmith, Benjamin W.

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

Economics

In consideration of the many challenges associated with Qatar's continued growth and demographic changes, the government of Qatar is interested in updating its school transportation system (STS). This volume assesses parents' and school administrators' perspectives on Qatar's STS, identifies a vision and goals for the STS, and discusses strategies to achieve the vision and better align Qatar's STS with international norms.

Qatar's School Transportation System: Supporting Safety, Efficiency, and Service Quality (Rand Corporation Monograph)

Culbertson, Shelly

Light, Thomas

Mattock, Michael G.

Henry, Keith

Al-Dafa, Maryah

Rohr, Charlene

Middle East

In consideration of the many challenges associated with Qatar¹s continued growth and demographic changes, the government of Qatar is interested in updating its school transportation system (STS). This volume assesses parents¹ and school administrators' perspectives onQatar's STS, identifies a vision and goals for the STS, and discussesstrategies to achieve the vision and better align Qatar's STS with international norms. This is the Arabic-language version.

Qatar's School Transportation System: Supporting Safety, Efficiency, and Service Quality (Arabic-language version) (Arabic and English Edition)

Improving Defense Acquisition: Insights from Three Decades of RAND Research

Wong, Jonathan P.

Anton, Philip S.

Whitmore, Thomas C.

Weichenberg, Guy

Vick, Alan J.

Kistler LaCoste, Christine

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