Product Description: This study reports on strategic planning activities supporting the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) in the area of information technology, collecting and analyzing data on law enforcement needs and identifying potential solutions through technology assessment studies, extensive outreach and liaison activities, and subject matter expert panels...read more

Product Description: This companion to "Toward Affordable Systems: PortfolioAnalysis and Management for Army Science and Technology Programs" (Brian G.Chow, Richard Silberglitt, and Scott Hiromoto, Santa Monica, Calif.: RANDCorporation, MG-761-A, 2009) describes the continued development anddemonstration of a method and model to incorporate lifecycle cost into theportfolio analysis and management process for U...read more

Product Description: Demonstrates how Chinese literary traditions have echoed throughout Japan and Korea for more than 1,000 years.Collection includes landscape paintings, figure paintings, ceramics, lacquer ware and calligraphic scrolls.Chinese classical poems are an international culture code in East Asia...read more

Product Description: U.S. Army leadership has called for consideration of lifecycle cost at system design and technology development stages so that adjustments can be made early enough to ensure affordability. This study developed and demonstrated a method and model to incorporate lifecycle cost into the portfolio analysis and management process for Army Science and Technology programs...read more

Product Description: This training manual―which consists of nine lecture and seminar sessions that can be used together or alone, in full or in part―is intended for use by the U.S. Geographic Combat Commands in training personnel assigned to them for participation in PSI activities...read more

Product Description: This study estimated the ocmbined effects of bioattacks and U.S. response options and suggested a comprehensive set of m edical and other defensive measures and the proper timing for their administration.

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Product Description: The danger of proliferation-of nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) weapons and missiles for their delivery-is appreciated by almost everyone. Since the 1970s, some of the most important instruments for combating this danger have been U...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: President Clinton has announced that the United States will take a comprehensive approach to the growing global accumulation of fissile material. As an element to that approach, he proposed a multilateral convention banning production of such material for nuclear-explosives purposes or outside international safeguards...read more