Product Description: Examines ways in which the UK Ministry of Defense can reduce the wholelife costs and manpower requirements jof the Royal Navy's two Future Aircraft Carriers.

Product Description: Documents the background information, research, and analysis RAND was asked to provide in support of a comprehensive Department of Defense Review of the roles and missions of the Reserve Components.

Product Description: Congress has recently expressed concern that the current tenure system for developing general and flag officers does not effectively prepare them for handling increasing levels of responsibility and for performing with maximum efficiency at each level of assignment...read more

Product Description: At the request of Congress to the Secretary of Defense, RAND undertook a study on the advisability and feasibility of a cadre of officers whose assignments and schooling would be managed so as to ensure a viable career track in which the officers would serve in interagency and international assignments...read more

Product Description: This report presents a chronological account of how external influences have shaped enlisted force management and the evolution of enlisted management practices, and it describes some recurring themes that run through the history of the enlisted force.

Product Description: The authors discuss the factors affecting supportability, promotiom ,measurements established by the Goldwater-Nichols legislation, and the services' ability to produce sufficient joint specialists to fulfill the legislation's 50 percent requirement.

Product Description: The Goldwater-Nichols Reorganization Act of 1986 directed the Department of Defense to make a broad range of organizational and functional changes to better enable the military services to carry out successful joint operations. However, concerns raised on numerous fronts prompted Congress to reevaluate the original implementation of the legislation...read more