Product Description: RAND Arroyo Center researchers analyzed a proposal allowing vested Army reservists to receive military retirement benefits immediately upon retiring from the Selected Reserve. They assessed effects on the size and experience mix of the Army reserve and active components, for enlisted personnel and officers, and for the steady state and the transition to it...read more

Product Description: Approximately two million individuals serving in America's all-volunteer force have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade. In 2005, RAND began an ongoing research program to investigate the effects of deployment on those troops and their families...read more

Product Description: This research sought to understand how recent deployments have affected reenlistment by examining trends in deployments and reenlistments, developing a theoretical model, and conducting an econometric analysis of survey and administrative data to identify the effect of deployment, by service, on reenlistment...read more

Product Description: Is the United States in danger of losing its competitive edge in science and technology (S&T)? In response to this concern, the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness asked Rand to convene a meeting to review evidence presented by experts from academia, government, and the private sector...read more

Product Description: Discusses how manpower and personnel policies can be used to produce the changes in military culture needed for transformation.