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Arms Trafficking and Columbia

Product Description: Identifies the sources and routes used by arm traffickers to buy, sell, transfer,and ship weapons and the implication of small-arms trafficking patterns for U.S. policy.

By Kim Cragin, Bruce Hoffman, National Defense Research Institute (other contributor) and United States Defense Intelligence Agency (corporate author)

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9780833031440 | Rand Corp, November 1, 2003, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Identifies the sources and routes used by arm traffickers to buy, sell, transfer,and ship weapons and the implication of small-arms trafficking patterns for U.

Military Recruiting and Retention After the Fiscal Year 2000 Military Pay Legislation

Product Description: Responding to a national crisis in defence manpower, Congress passed the FY00 National Defense Authorization Act, which raised military pay and increased bonus ceilings and benefits. This work estimates the effects of the act's basic pay increases on recruiting and retention.

By Beth J. Asch (editor), National Defense Research Institute (other contributor) and United States Department of Defense Office of the Secretary of Defense (corporate author)

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9780833031921 | Rand Corp, August 1, 2002, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Responding to a national crisis in defence manpower, Congress passed the FY00 National Defense Authorization Act, which raised military pay and increased bonus ceilings and benefits.

Future Ground Commanders' Close Support Needs and Desirable System Characteristics

Product Description: Examines the role of close support amid changes in the threat environment and technological advances. To explore new questions about the demand for and capabilities of close support, the authors applied varying types and levels of support to a series of combat scenarios...read more

By Bruce W. Don (editor), National Defense Research Institute (other contributor) and United States Department of Defense Office of the Secretary of Defense (corporate author)

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9780833031853 | Rand Corp, June 1, 2002, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Examines the role of close support amid changes in the threat environment and technological advances.

The Status of Gender Integration in the Military: Supporting Appendices

Product Description: This volume presents supporting data to the STatus of Gender Integration in the Military:Analysis of SElected Occupation, an assessment of the current status of gender representation in U.S. military occupations newly opened to women.

By Megan Beckett, Chiaying Sandy Chien, National Defense Research Institute (other contributor) and United States Department of Defense Office of the Secretary of Defense (corporate author)

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9780833031686 | Rand Corp, May 1, 2002, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This volume presents supporting data to the STatus of Gender Integration in the Military:Analysis of SElected Occupation, an assessment of the current status of gender representation in U.

Examining the Cost of Military Child Care

Product Description: The military child-care system, the largest system of employer-sponsored child care in the country, has received high marks for providing quality, accessible care for children of military employees. In an effort to control expenses, the Department of Defense (DoD) has considered a number of different approaches to delivering this care...read more

By Susan M. Gates, National Defense Research Institute (other contributor) and Gail Zellman

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9780833031235 | Rand Corp, April 1, 2002, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The military child-care system, the largest system of employer-sponsored child care in the country, has received high marks for providing quality, accessible care for children of military employees.

The Elasticity of Demand for Health Care: A Review of the Literature and Its Application to the Military Health System

Product Description: Provides a framework for understanding the effects of changes in the Military Health System benefit structure on the demand for health care services paid for by the DoD. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Susan D. Hosek, Sergej Mahnovski, National Defense Research Institute (other contributor), RAND Health (corporate author), Jeanne S. Ringel (editor), United States Department of Defense Office of the Secretary of Defense (corporate author) and Ben A. Vollaard

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9780833031099 | Rand Corp, February 1, 2002, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Provides a framework for understanding the effects of changes in the Military Health System benefit structure on the demand for health care services paid for by the DoD.

General and Flag Officer Careers: Consequences of Increased Tenure

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

By National Defense Research Institute (other contributor), Harry Thie (editor) and United States Department of Defense Office of the Secretary of Defense (corporate author)

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9780833025265 | Rand Corp, June 1, 2001, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: 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.

Patterns of Enlisted Compensation

Product Description: Military compensation is complex, consisting of over 70 different pays and entitlements, some of which are cash payments and some of which are in-kind transfers. This study provides a baseline description of the structure of enlisted-personnel compensation.

By Dana P. Goldman, M. Rebecca Kilburn, Rachel Louie, National Defense Research Institute (other contributor) and United States Department of Defense Office of the Secretary of Defense (corporate author)

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9780833024794 | Rand Corp, June 1, 2001, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Military compensation is complex, consisting of over 70 different pays and entitlements, some of which are cash payments and some of which are in-kind transfers.

An Examination of the Effects of Voluntary Separation on Incentives

Product Description: As a means of facilitating the defense drawdown, the Department of Defense offered eligible personnel either the Voluntary Separation Incentive or the Special Separation Bonus (VSI/SSB), a program to induce mid-career personnel to separate from service...read more

By Beth J. Asch, National Defense Research Institute (other contributor), United States Department of Defense Office of the Secretary of Defense (corporate author) and John T. Warner

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9780833025661 | Rand Corp, June 1, 2001, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: As a means of facilitating the defense drawdown, the Department of Defense offered eligible personnel either the Voluntary Separation Incentive or the Special Separation Bonus (VSI/SSB), a program to induce mid-career personnel to separate from service.

Integrated Facility Environmental Management Approaches: Lessons from Industry for Department of Defense Facilites

Product Description: This report demonstrates how commercial facilities similar to DoD installations implement integrated approaches to environmental management successfully. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Frank A. Camm, Beth E. Lachman, National Defense Research Institute (other contributor), Susan A. Resetar and United States Department of Defense Office of the Secretary of Defense (corporate author)

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9780833029959 | Rand Corp, May 1, 2001, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: This report demonstrates how commercial facilities similar to DoD installations implement integrated approaches to environmental management successfully.

Final Evaluation Report for Uniformed Services Family Health Plan Continuous Open Enrollment Demonstration

Product Description: The National Defense Authorization Act for 2000 established the authority for a demonstration program under which eligible military reirees and their dependents would be permitted to enroll in the Uniformed Services Family Health Plan (USFHP) at any time, rather than during a designated 30-day period each spring...read more

By National Defense Research Institute (other contributor), Rand Corporation (corporate author), RAND Health (corporate author) and Michael Schoenbaum (editor)

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9780833030047 | Rand Corp, May 1, 2001, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: The National Defense Authorization Act for 2000 established the authority for a demonstration program under which eligible military reirees and their dependents would be permitted to enroll in the Uniformed Services Family Health Plan (USFHP) at any time, rather than during a designated 30-day period each spring.

Department of Defense Political Appointments: Positions and Process

Product Description: In 1998, the Defense Science Board Task Force on Human Resources Strategy was established for the purpose of evaluating the Department of Defense's (DoD's) capacity to attract and retain both civilian and military personnel. As part of this evaluation, RAND was asked to study the growth of political appointment positions within the DoD as well as to examine the appointment and confirmation process that potential political appointees face...read more

By Cheryl Y. Marcum (editor) and National Defense Research Institute (other contributor)

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9780833029867 | Rand Corp, May 1, 2001, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In 1998, the Defense Science Board Task Force on Human Resources Strategy was established for the purpose of evaluating the Department of Defense's (DoD's) capacity to attract and retain both civilian and military personnel.

Military Recruiting: Trends, Outlook, and Implications

Product Description: Based on indications of increased difficulty in meeting recruiting goals, in spring 1994 the Army Chief of Staff and the Deputy of Secretary of Defense asked RAND to examine recent trends in the recruiting market and to assesss their implications for meeting accession requirements...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Arroyo Center (corporate author), Beth J. Asch, National Defense Research Institute (other contributor), Bruce R. Orvis, United States Army (corporate author) and United States Department of Defense Office of the Secretary of Defense (corporate author)

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9780833028747 | Rand Corp, May 1, 2001, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Based on indications of increased difficulty in meeting recruiting goals, in spring 1994 the Army Chief of Staff and the Deputy of Secretary of Defense asked RAND to examine recent trends in the recruiting market and to assesss their implications for meeting accession requirements.

Improving the Defense Finance and Accounting Service's Interactions With Its Customers

Product Description: The Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) provides a variety of finance and accounting services to military customers. Because DFAS received customer complaints, its leadership asked RAND to take a comprehensive look at all DFAS-customer interactions to identify problems and determine how those interactions might be improved...read more

By Edward G. Keating (editor) and National Defense Research Institute (other contributor)

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9780833029683 | Rand Corp, February 1, 2001, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) provides a variety of finance and accounting services to military customers.

Evidence of Positive Student Outcomes in Jrotc Career Academies

Product Description: This report focuses on an examination of the effects of the JROTC Career Academy program on student outcomes, including grades, attendance, and graduation. The authors found that grade-point averages for the JROTC Career Academy students were significantly higher than would have been expected if they had been in the standard academic program in six of ten cases...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Marc N. Elliott, Curtis L. Gilroy, Lawrence M. Hanser and National Defense Research Institute (other contributor)

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9780833028891 | Bklt edition (Rand Corp, January 1, 2001), cover price $8.00 | About this edition: This report focuses on an examination of the effects of the JROTC Career Academy program on student outcomes, including grades, attendance, and graduation.

Swarming and the Future of Conflict

Product Description: Swarming is a seemingly amorphous, but deliberately structured, coordinated, strategic way to perform military strikes from all directions. It employs a sustainable pulsing of force and/or fire that is directed from both close-in and stand-off positions...read more

By John Arquilla, National Defense Research Institute (other contributor), Rand Corporation (corporate author), David Ronfeldt and United States Department of Defense (corporate author)

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9780833028853 | Rand Corp, September 1, 2000, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Swarming is a seemingly amorphous, but deliberately structured, coordinated, strategic way to perform military strikes from all directions.

Effects of Terrain, Maneuver Tactics, and C41Sr on the Effectiveness of Long Range Precision Fires: A Stochastic Multiresolution Model (Pem) Calibrated to High-Resolution Simulation

Product Description: Situational and tactical factors, which are usually treated only in complex models, strongly influence the effectiveness of long-range precision weapons in interdicting a moving armored column. This study develops a physics-based personal-computer model describing such influences...read more

By J. H. Bigelow, Paul K. Davis, Jimmie McEver, National Defense Research Institute (other contributor) and United States Department of Defense Office of the Secretary of Defense (corporate author)

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9780833028198 | Rand Corp, July 1, 2000, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Situational and tactical factors, which are usually treated only in complex models, strongly influence the effectiveness of long-range precision weapons in interdicting a moving armored column.

Command Concepts: A Theory Derived from the Practice of Command and Control

Product Description: The qualities of commanders and their ideas are more important to a general theory of command and control than are the technical and architectural qualities of their computers and communications systems. This theory separates the art of command and control (C2) from the hardware and software systems that support C2...read more

By Steven C. Bankes, Carl H. Builder, National Defense Research Institute (other contributor), Richard Nordin and United States Department of Defense Office of the Secretary of Defense (corporate author)

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9780833024503 | Rand Corp, November 1, 1999, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The qualities of commanders and their ideas are more important to a general theory of command and control than are the technical and architectural qualities of their computers and communications systems.

A Review of the Scientific Literature As It Pertains to Gulf War Illnesses: Pyridostigmine Bromide

Product Description: The United States and its allies in the Persian Gulf War (PGW) knew that Iraq had used nerve agents and chemical weapons in its previous conflicts and so took steps to protect their troops. Pyridostigmine Bromide was distributed as a pretreatment that would enhance the effectiveness of postexposure treatments in the event that the nerve agent soman was used...read more

By Alexandra Golomb, Beatrice Alexandra Golomb (editor), Naomi H. Harley (editor), Grant N. Marshall (editor), National Defense Research Institute (other contributor), Dalia M. Spektor (editor) and United States Department of Defense Office of the Secretary of Defense (corporate author)

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9780833026774 | Rand Corp, October 1, 1999, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The United States and its allies in the Persian Gulf War (PGW) knew that Iraq had used nerve agents and chemical weapons in its previous conflicts and so took steps to protect their troops.

Interagency and International Assignments and Officer Career Management

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

By Robert M. Emmerichs, Margaret C. Harrell, National Defense Research Institute (other contributor), Harry Thie and United States Department of Defense Office of the Secretary of Defense (corporate author)

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9780833027726 | Rand Corp, September 1, 1999, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: 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.

Planning America's Security: Lessons from the National Defense Panel

Product Description: This report identifies key lessons from the Nationa Defense Panel and makes recommendations to the Congress, the administration, and future NDP teams.

By John G. McGinn, National Defense Research Institute (corporate author), Rand Corporation (corporate author), John E. Tedstrom and United States Department of Defense Office of the Secretary of Defense (corporate author)

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9780833027368 | Rand Corp, April 1, 1999, cover price $7.50 | About this edition: This report identifies key lessons from the Nationa Defense Panel and makes recommendations to the Congress, the administration, and future NDP teams.

Innovative Management in the Darpa High-Altitude Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Program: Phase II Experience

Product Description: The U.S. military's development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has been hampered by cost overruns, schedule slippage, and disappointing operation results. The High Altitude Endurance UAV (HAE UAV) joint program, initiated under the direction of the Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA), incorporates several innovative elements in its acquisition strategy that depart radically from traditional acquisition approaches...read more

By Jeffrey A. Drezner, Robert S. Leonard, National Defense Research Institute (other contributor), Geoffrey Sommer and United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (corporate author)

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9780833027177 | Rand Corp, March 1, 1999, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The U.

The Emergence of Noopolitik: Toward an American Information Strategy

Product Description: This study discusses the opportunities that may be raised by the emergence of noopolitik--ranging from construction of noosphere to recommendations.

By John Arquilla, National Defense Research Institute (other contributor), David F. Ronfeldt and United States Department of Defense Office of the Secretary of Defense (corporate author)

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9780833026989 | Rand Corp, February 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: This study discusses the opportunities that may be raised by the emergence of noopolitik--ranging from construction of noosphere to recommendations.

Separation and Retirement Incentives in the Civil Service: A Comparison of Fers and Csrs

Product Description: In 1987 a new retirement system, called the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS), was introduced for federal civil service personnel. Some observers have hypothesized that FERS would alter the retirement and separation outcomes produced by FERS' predecessor, the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS)...read more

By Beth J. Asch, National Defense Research Institute (other contributor), United States Department of Defense Office of the Secretary of Defense (corporate author) and John T. Warner

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9780833026897 | Rand Corp, December 1, 1998, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In 1987 a new retirement system, called the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS), was introduced for federal civil service personnel.

The Arsenal Ship Acquisition Process Experience: Contrasting and Common Impressions from the Contractor Teams and Joint Program Office

Product Description: The Arsenal Ship acquisition program was unique in two respects: it represented a new operational concept for Navy weapon systems, and its management structure and process represented a significant departure from traditional military ship-building programs...read more

By Jeffrey A. Drezner, Robert S. Leonard, National Defense Research Institute (other contributor), Geoffrey Sommer and United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (corporate author)

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9780833026903 | Rand Corp, December 1, 1998, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The Arsenal Ship acquisition program was unique in two respects: it represented a new operational concept for Navy weapon systems, and its management structure and process represented a significant departure from traditional military ship-building programs.

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