Product Description: Adverse and reportable information must be considered at the time of assignments, promotions, and retirements of senior military officers. This monograph documents current policies and practices for identifying and considering such information, identifies potential gaps in these processes, and makes recommendations on how to make them more consistent and reliable...read more

Product Description: This study presents recommendations to improve recruiting and retention in the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD). The recommendations, tailored to the unique circumstances of the NOPD, include using civilian employees for some jobs now performed by officers; developing a proactive recruiting program; providing housing; increasing the frequency of promotion examinations; eliminating the backlog of promotions; restructuring compensation; establishing a firstresponders charter school; and rebuilding the police infrastructure...read more

Product Description: Can the Army sustain its current tempo of overseas deployment without reaching the breaking point?

Product Description: Assess options for managing the Army's arsenals and ammunition.

Product Description: The Army has been doing its part to help downsize the defense establishment, closing 23 major installations in the four rounds of base closures and realignments, closing many more minor intallations, and realigning others. Many believe that excess installation capacity remains, so more rounds are sure to come...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Army Personnel Chief Officers expressed concern over the extent of personnel turbulence in the Active Component of the Army and asked the Arroyo Center ot initiate research on the topic. This report provides an update to the earlier briefing and provides a more complete documentation of the results...read more

Product Description: Since 1985, military retirement has been funded prospectively on an accrual basis. A recommended change to service-specific imputations of normal cost would result in lower funding by the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, and increased funding by the Air Force.