Product Description: To achieve a more responsive and more readily deployable fleet of surface combatants, the Navy adopted the Fleet Response Plan (FRP) in 2003 to replace its traditional two-year ship maintenance cycle. The authors of this report look at the effects the FRP has had thus far and determine whether maintenance resources are meeting maintenance demands and whether related industry resources have been coordinated effectively...read more

Product Description: The complexity and uniqueness of a nuclear submarine requires special skills, facilities, and oversight not supported by other shipbuilding programmes. There is particular concern about the future vitality of the United Kingdom's submarine industrial base...read more

Product Description: Cost increases in maintaining regulating licenses at BAE Systems' Barrow-in-Furness shipyard and Devonport Management Limited's (DML's) facility have led the UK Ministry of Defence to consider the possibility of consolidating its nuclear fuel-handling capabilities at DML...read more

Product Description: Examines the capabilities and costs of onboard technologies to divert or destroy missiles attacking commercial airliners.

Product Description: RAND pioneered ways to quantify the costs and eventual savings to the government from childhood interventions with crime prevention benefits. Books such as Diverting Children from a Life of Crime and Investing in Our Children have shown that some programs ultimately save the government more than they cost...read more

Product Description: Examines alernatives to full-funding strategy for funding aircraft carriers

Product Description: Estimates the amount of social benefit that prevention programs generate through reductions in the use of cocaine, marijuana, alcohol, and tabacco

Product Description: In 1999, a scientific committee assembled under the auspices of the National Research Council issued a critique of RAND's 1994 Controlling Cocaine report. The committee concluded, [T]he findings of the RAND study do not constitute a persuasive basis for the formation of cocaine control policy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This study was intended to help the National Center for Research in Vocational Education (NCRVE) understand the development of education and training in the near future. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Do mandatory minimum sentences decrease the nation's drug consumption? (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)