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Many current unmanned systems (UxSs) employ different communication systems and have limited autonomy, which limit information sharing with warfighters and other UxSs. This report identifies ways to address these limitations.

Documents the planning and execution of the U.S. military's exit from Iraq, the transition of responsibilities to the Iraqi government and other U.S. departments and agencies, and lessons for future military drawdowns and the resulting diplomatic transitions

Based on an analysis of security cooperation (SC) data and state fragility scores for 107 countries in 1991-2008, the report describes the correlation between provision of SC by the United States and a reduction in partner state fragility.

This report summarizes a selection of the defense acquisition literature from the 1960s to the present on potential sources of prolonged acquisition cycle times and schedule growth, as well as potential opportunities for improvement.

The swift adoption of unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) and their increasing use in the field have exceeded the capacity of the training infrastructure to sustain training on these systems over the long term. This report develops a general concept for training military forces in employment of UASs and a framework for addressing the training requirements and discusses the limits of existing infrastructure in supporting UAS training.

This report describes how the U.S. military responded to the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti, and it presents recommendations for improving military foreign humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

RAND researchers assessed the scale, trends, and composition of China's foreign aid and government-sponsored investment programs in six regions: Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, and East Asia.

Report describes RAND contributions to Louisiana's Coastal Master Plan for policymakers in other coastal regions. It highlights the value of a solid technical foundation to support decision-making on strategies to protect and restore coastal regions.

Evaluated the effectiveness of the Common Core-the first phase of the U.S. Army's system for developing critical thinking skills in its officer corps-and the extent of differences among distributed, resident, and mixed-delivery course venues.

Assesses the effectiveness of correctional education for both incarcerated adults and juveniles, presents the results of a survey of U.S. state correctional education directors, and offers recommendations for improving correctional education.

Reviews what has been learned over the past decade about performance-based payment strategies in health care and offers recommendations for the design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of value-based purchasing programs.

Presents an approach to determine what parties have authority to issue interoperability policy, the legal and policy origins and implementation paths of the authority, and the scope of that authority, shown in a roles and responsibilities network.

An attacker''s missile-borne countermeasures to ballistic missile defenses are known as penetration aids, or penaids. To support efforts to prevent the proliferation of penaid-related items, this research recommends controls on potential exports according to the structure of the international Missile Technology Control Regime.

This study analyzes recent humanitarian assistance/disaster response operations in Burma, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Japan, and identifies lessons that can be used to improve the Department of Defense's international disaster relief capabilities.

This report assesses the effectiveness of the Command and General Staff School's Advanced Operations Course for junior field-grade officers when taught in a blended distributed learning environment.

USAF par rescue and combat controllers routinely recover downed or injured military personnel and direct military aircraft in hostile or denied regions. Consequently, to be effective in these careers requires the ability to cope with severe stress.

This report summarizes a study designed to describe the magnitude of military caregiving in the United States today, as well as to identify gaps in the array of programs, policies, and initiatives designed to support military caregivers.

The authors explore options for solving the Navy's "big data" challenge, considering changes across four dimensions: people, tools and technology, data and data architectures, and demand and demand management.

Reviews India's and other countries' higher education systems and suggests seven policy actions that the Indian national government and other stakeholders can take to improve higher education by linking funding to quality.

The Internet is a new battleground between governments that censor online content and those who advocate Internet freedom. This report examines the implications of Internet freedom for state-society relations in nondemocratic regimes.

RAND researchers developed a model and tools to support a centralized, systematic, and ongoing process to aid the Department of Defense in making decisions around continued support and expansion of psychological health and brain injury programs.

The authors assess alternatives for a next-generation intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) across a broad set of potential characteristics and situations. They use the current Minuteman III as a baseline to develop a framework to characterize alternative classes of ICBMs, assess the survivability and effectiveness of possible alternatives, and weigh those alternatives against their cost.

The RAND Program Classification Tool is an instrument containing questions and response options across eight core domains that allows managers of a portfolio of programs to quickly, easily, and consistently describe and compare their programs.

The RAND Online Measure Repository is an online searchable database of 171 measures of psychological health and traumatic brain injury, including measure domains, uses, psychometrics, and costs, that can be used to support program evaluation.

Security cooperation is an important instrument of the U.S. government for advancing national security objectives vis-à-vis partner countries. RAND examined and evaluated the effectiveness and efficiency of select mechanisms for capacity-building.

The Colorado River Basin Study evaluated the river system's resiliency and compared resource management options. This report describes RAND's contributions, focusing on methodologies used to identify vulnerabilities and compare portfolios of options.

The report investigates the barriers that service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses may face when attempting to contract with the federal government and the Department of Defense.

This book looks at the planning and execution of the U.S. military's exit from Iraq and the transition of responsibilities to the Iraqi government, U.S. embassy, Office of Security Cooperation, USCENTCOM, and other U.S. departments and agencies.

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.

Estimates the costs associated with U.S. and overseas Air Force installations and units to provide insight into the costs and benefits of overseas basing.