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Shares results of a survey, sent to every U.S. police agency with at least 300 sworn officers, on recruitment and retention practices. Compensation, city size, and crime rates affected recruiting. Cohort sizes highlighted management challenges.

The first in this three-volume series describes the early work of cities that received a grant from The Wallace Foundation to increase collaboration, access, quality, information sharing, and sustainability in their out-of-school-time systems.

The Air Force asked RAND Project AIR FORCE to perform a congressionally required assessment of contractor versus organic management of F-22 air vehicle and F119 engine sustainment to determine the most cost-effective approach. The methodology involved the development of notional government sustainment organizations and a consideration of a variety of factors relevant to such a decision, including the asserted benefits of each approach.

A methodology and prototype tool, the Building Blocks To Composite Options Tool (BCOT), that identifies investment options for defense capability areas, then uses a screening technique to identify those meriting more-extensive assessment in a fuller portfolio-analysis framework.

Analyzes the interpretation, transformation, and future of the U.S. Air Force's ongoing surge requirements.

Analysis of findings from case studies and structured interviews focused on determining the potential benefits and challenges of using price-based acquisition for Department of Defense procurement of major military-unique systems.

Examines benefits going to those who were killed or seriously injured in the 9/11 attacks and benefits to individuals and businesses in New York City that suffered losses from the attack on the World Trade Center

Defines metrics to evaluate the Army's process for returning and repairing reparable spare parts.

Presents an analysis of Air Force combat support experiences associated with the year of planning and the first month of combat in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and compares these experiences with those associated with Operation Allied Force and the first 100 days of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Develops a new metric for measuring the effect of operations tempo on the readiness of the mobility air forces.

Kent School's experience suggests that information technology can be used to enrich teaching and learning for both faculty and students.

Assesses how changing to a three-tiered co-payment system would affect drug costs and pharmacy utilization, in particular for specific high-cost classes of medications