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The RAND Institute for Civil Justice and RAND Justice, Infrastructure, and Environment

The RAND National Security Research Division

  • “People Make the City,” Executive Summary: Joint Urban Operations Observations and Insights from Afghanistan and Iraq

  • Achieving Peace in Northern Mali: Past Agreements, Local Conflicts, and the Prospects for a Durable Settlement

  • Achieving Strong Teamwork Practices in Hospital Labor and Delivery Units

  • Air Defense Options for Taiwan: An Assessment of Relative Costs and Operational Benefits

  • Allies Growing Closer: Japan–Europe Security Ties in the Age of Strategic Competition

  • An Assessment of the Ability of the U.S. Department of Defense and the Services to Measure and Track Language and Culture Training and Capabilities Among General Purpose Forces

  • An Assessment of the Civilian Acquisition Workforce Personnel Demonstration Project

  • An Enhanced Capability to Model How Compensation Policy Affects U.S. Department of Defense Civil Service Retention and Cost

  • Analysis and Recommendations on the Company-Grade Officer Shortfall in the Reserve Components of the U.S. Army

  • Assessing the Effectiveness of the International Counterproliferation Program

  • Assessment of the Proliferation of Certain Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems: Response to Section 1276 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017

  • Band of Brothers or Dysfunctional Family? A Military Perspective on Coalition Challenges During Stability Operations

  • Barriers to the Broad Dissemination of Creative Works in the Arab World

  • Bridging the Gap: Developing a Tool to Support Local Civilian and Military Disaster Preparedness

  • Building a More Resilient Haitian State

  • Building a More Resilient Haitian State: Key Recommendations and Priorities

  • Building Security in Africa: An Evaluation of U.S. Security Sector Assistance in Africa from the Cold War to the Present

  • Changing Aircraft Carrier Procurement Schedules: Effects That a Five-Year Procurement Cycle Would Have on Cost, Availability, and Shipyard Manpower and Workload

  • Coping with a Nuclearizing Iran

  • Coping with Iran: Confrontation, Containment, or Engagement? A Conference Report

  • Department of Defense Training for Operations with Interagency, Multinational, and Coalition Partners

  • Deterrence—From Cold War to Long War: Lessons from Six Decades of RAND Research (with RAND Project AIR FORCE)

  • Development of a Knowledge Readiness Level Framework for Medical Research

  • Early Observations on Possible Defenses by the Emerging Threat Agent Project

  • Early Results on Activations and the Earnings of Reservists

  • Effects of Military Service on Earnings and Education Revisited: Variation by Service Duration, Occupation, and Civilian Unemployment

  • Estimating DoD Transportation Spending: Analyses of Contract and Payment Transactions

  • Estimating the Cost of Administering the Department of Defense Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program

  • Evaluating the Desirability of Navy F/A-18E/F Service Life Extension Programs (SLEPs)

  • Evolving the Practice of Evaluating Research Portfolios

  • Export Controls on Artificial Intelligence and Uncrewed Aircraft Systems: Interagency Challenges

  • Future Aircraft Carrier Options

  • General Military Training: Standardization and Reduction Options

  • Hazing Prevention and Response: Training for Military Leaders

  • Health and Economic Outcomes in the Alumni of the Wounded Warrior Project

  • Health and Economic Outcomes in the Alumni of the Wounded Warrior Project: 2010–2012

  • Hispanic Representation in the Department of Defense Civilian Workforce: Trend and Barrier Analysis

  • How Insurgencies EndHow Terrorist Groups End: Implications for Countering al Qa’ida

  • How Terrorist Groups End: Lessons for Countering al Qa’ida

  • Implementation of the Common Core State Standards: Recommendations for the Department of Defense Education Activity Schools

  • Imported Oil and U.S. National Security (with the Science and Technology Policy Institute)

  • Integrating Active and Reserve Component Staff Organizations: Improving the Chances of Success

  • Iran’s Balancing Act in Afghanistan

  • Israel’s Interests and Options in Syria

  • Japan’s Space Program: A Fork in the Road?

  • Leadership Stability in Army Reserve Component Units

  • Linking Language, Regional Expertise, and Culture Capabilities to Military Readiness

  • Looming Discontinuities in U.S. Military Strategy and Defense Planning: Colliding RMAs Necessitate a New Strategy

  • Measuring the Quality of Care for Psychological Health Conditions in the Military Health System: Candidate Quality Measures for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder

  • Mental Health Stigma in the Military

  • Military and Civilian Pay Levels, Trends, and Recruit Quality

  • Navy/OSD Collaborative Review of Acquisition Policy for DoD C3I and Weapon Programs

  • On “Other War”: Lessons from Five Decades of RAND Counterinsurgency Research

  • Operating Under a Continuing Resolution: A Limited Assessment of Effects on Defense Procurement Contract Awards

  • OPNAV N14 Quick Reference: Officer Manpower and Personnel Governance in the U.S. Navy—Law, Policy, Practice

  • Options for Educating Students Attending Department of Defense Schools in the United States

  • Overcoming Obstacles to Peace: Local Factors in Nation-BuildingPolicies for Managing Reductions in Military End Strength: Using Incentive Pays to Draw Down the Force

  • Preventing, Identifying, and Treating Prescription Drug Misuse Among Active-Duty Service Members

  • Promotion Benchmarks for Senior Officers with Joint and Acquisition Service

  • Reconstruction Under Fire: Unifying Civil and Military Counterinsurgency

  • Reforming Security Sector Assistance for Africa

  • Research-Portfolio Performance Metrics: Rapid Review

  • Reserve Component Unit Instability: How Big Is the Problem, What Causes It, and What Can Be Done About It?

  • Reserve Component Unit Stability: Effects on Deployability and Training

  • Russian Social Media Influence: Understanding Russian Propaganda in Eastern Europe

  • Security in Iraq: A Framework for Analyzing Emerging Threats as U.S. Forces Leave

  • Security in Iraq: Emerging Threats as U.S. Forces Withdraw

  • Shared Modular Build of Warships: How a Shared Build Can Support Future Shipbuilding

  • SimCoach Evaluation: A Virtual Human Intervention to Encourage Service-Member Help-Seeking for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Depression

  • Strategic Analysis of the 2014 Wounded Warrior Project Annual Alumni Survey: A Way Forward

  • Supporting Employers in the Reserve Operational Forces Era: Appendixes

  • Supporting Employers in the Reserve Operational Forces Era: Are Changes Needed to Reservists’ Employment Rights Legislation, Policies, or Programs?

  • Supporting Employers of Reserve Component Members

  • Supporting Persistent and Networked Special Operations Forces (SOF) Operations: Insights from Forward-Deployed SOF Personnel

  • Tailoring the Acquisition Process in the U.S. Department of Defense

  • The Challenge of Domestic Intelligence in a Free Society: A Multidisciplinary Look at the Creation of a U.S. Domestic Counterterrorism Intelligence Agency

  • The Deployment Life Study: Methodological Overview and Baseline Sample Description (with the RAND Army Research Division)

  • The Federal Voting Assistance Program and the Road Ahead: Achieving Institutional Change Through Analysis and Collaboration

  • The Federal Voting Assistance Program: Refocusing and Reorganizing for the Road Ahead

  • The Malay-Muslim Insurgency in Southern Thailand—Understanding the Conflict’s Evolving Dynamic: RAND Counterinsurgency Study—Paper 5

  • The Origins of America’s Jihadists

  • The Quality of Personnel in the Enlisted Ranks

  • The Relationship Between Disability Evaluation and Accession Medical Standards

  • The Role of Logic Modeling in a Collaborative and Iterative Research Process: Lessons from Research and Analysis Conducted with the Federal Voting Assistance Program

  • The U.S. Department of Defense’s Earned Value Management—Analyst Workforce

  • The Use of Standardized Scores in Officer Career Management and Selection

  • The War Within: Preventing Suicide in the U.S. Military

  • Toward Improved Management of Officer Retention: A New Capability for Assessing Policy Options

  • Toward Incentives for Military Transformation: A Review of Economic Models of Compensation

  • U.S. Alliance and Partner Networks: A Network Analysis of Their Health and Strength

  • U.S. Military Information Operations in Afghanistan: Effectiveness of Psychological Operations 2001–2010

  • U.S. Special Operations Forces in the Philippines, 2001–2014

  • Using the Steel-Vessel Material-Cost Index to Mitigate Shipbuilder Risk

  • What Factors Affect the Military Enlistment of Hispanic Youth? A Look at Enlistment Qualifications

  • When the Islamic State Comes to Town: The Economic Impact of Islamic State Governance in Iraq and Syria

  • Women’s Representation in the U.S. Department of Defense Workforce: Addressing the Influence of Veterans’ Employment

  • Workforce Planning in the Intelligence Community: A Retrospective

The Science and Technology Policy Institute

  • A New Tool Can Help Commercial-Building Owners Make Better Water-Efficiency Decisions

  • Altered State? Assessing How Marijuana Legalization in California Could Influence Marijuana Consumption and Public Budgets (with RAND Health Care)

  • Alternative Fossil-Based Transportation Fuels: Economic Benefits and Environmental Concerns

  • An Approach to Assessing the Technical Feasibility and Market Potential of a New Automotive Device

  • An Assessment of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Environmental Performance Track Program

  • Assessing a Coal-to-Liquids Fuel Industry in the United States (with RAND Project AIR FORCE)

  • Assessing Progress in Rebuilding the Housing Market in Mississippi in the Wake of Katrina

  • Balancing Environment and Development: Costs, Revenues, and Benefits of the Western Riverside County Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan

  • Characterizing the U.S. Industrial Base for Coal-Powered Electricity

  • Choosing a New Organization for Management and Disposition of Commercial and Defense High-Level Radioactive Materials

  • CLARA Flood Risk Model Supports Louisiana’s Coastal Planning

  • Design of the Qatar National Research Fund: An Overview of the Study Approach and Key Recommendations

  • Does Imported Oil Threaten U.S. National Security? (with the RAND National Security Research Division)

  • Effects of Preanalytical Variables on the Quality of Biospecimens Used to Study Genetic Changes in Cancer: Development of the Biospecimen Research Database

  • Efforts to Improve Police-Community Relations in Cincinnati

  • Energy Security in Asia: The Limitations of Unilateral Policies

  • Energy Services Analysis: An Alternative Approach for Identifying Opportunities to Reduce Emissions of Greenhouse Gases

  • Equity and Congestion Pricing: A Review of the Evidence

  • Estimating the Value of Water-Use Efficiency in the Intermountain West

  • Evaluating Options for U.S. Greenhouse-Gas Mitigation Using Multiple Criteria

  • Evaluating the Benefits and Costs of Increased Water-Use Efficiency in Commercial Buildings

  • Federal Financial Incentives to Induce Early Experience Producing Unconventional Liquid Fuels (with RAND Project AIR FORCE)

  • Financing the Operation and Maintenance Costs of Hurricane Protection Infrastructure: Options for the State of Louisiana

  • Governing Geoengineering Research: A Political and Technical Vulnerability Analysis of Potential Near-Term Options (with the RAND National Security Research Division)

  • Government Consolidation and Economic Development in Allegheny County and the City of Pittsburgh

  • How Might Marijuana Legalization in California Affect Public Budgets and Marijuana Consumption? (with RAND Health Care)

  • Identifying and Reducing Climate-Change Vulnerabilities in Water-Management Plans

  • Identifying Fraud, Abuse, and Error in Personal Bankruptcy Filings

  • Impacts on U.S. Energy Expenditures and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions of Increasing Renewable-Energy Use

  • Increasing the Capacity of Freight Transportation: U.S. and Canadian Perspectives

  • Integrating U.S. Climate, Energy and Transportation Policies: RAND Workshops Address Challenges and Potential Solutions

  • Integrating U.S. Climate, Energy, and Transportation Policies: Proceedings of Three Workshops

  • Japanese Science and Technology Capacity: Expert Opinions and Recommendations

  • Justice, Treatment, and Cost: An Evaluation of the Fiscal Impact of Allegheny County Mental Health Court

  • Managing Spent Nuclear Fuel: Strategy Alternatives and Policy Implications

  • Mitigating Corruption in Government Security Forces: The Role of Institutions, Incentives, and Personnel Management in Mexico (with the RAND National Security Research Division)

  • Moving Los Angeles: Short-Term Policy Options for Improving Transportation

  • Natural Gas and Israel’s Energy Future: A Strategic Analysis Under Conditions of Deep Uncertainty

  • Natural Gas and Israel’s Energy Future: Near-Term Decisions from a Strategic Perspective

  • Near-Term Feasibility of Alternative Jet Fuels

  • Near-Term Opportunities for Integrating Biomass into the U.S. Electricity Supply: Technical Considerations

  • Planning Tool to Support Louisiana’s Decisionmaking on Coastal Protection and Restoration: Technical Description

  • Police-Community Relations in Cincinnati

  • Police-Community Relations in Cincinnati: Year Two Evaluation Report

  • Post-Katrina Recovery of the Housing Market Along the Mississippi Gulf Coast

  • Preparing for an Uncertain Future Climate in the Inland Empire: Identifying Robust Water-Management Strategies

  • Presenting Uncertainty About Climate Change to Water-Resource Managers: A Summary of Workshops with the Inland Empire Utilities Agency

  • Producing Liquid Fuels from Coal: Prospects and Policy Issues (with RAND Project AIR FORCE)

  • Protecting Emergency Responders, Volume 4: Personal Protective Equipment Guidelines for Structural Collapse Events

  • Race and the Decision to Seek the Death Penalty in Federal Cases

  • Rebuilding Housing Along the Mississippi Coast: Ideas for Ensuring an Adequate Supply of Affordable Housing

  • Recommended Research Priorities for the Qatar Foundation’s Environment and Energy Research Institute

  • Reducing Gun Violence: Results from an Intervention in East Los Angeles

  • Reducing Traffic Congestion in Los Angeles

  • Road Home Program Leaves Many Homeowners Waiting

  • Santa Monica Municipal Airport (SMO) Options for the Future

  • Steps Toward a Formative Evaluation of NSDL

  • Supplying Biomass to Power Plants: A Model of the Costs of Utilizing Agricultural Biomass in Cofired Power Plants

  • The Economic Cost of Methamphetamine Use in the United States, 2005 (with RAND Health Care)

  • The Global Technology Revolution China, Executive Summary: Emerging Technology Opportunities for the Tianjin Binhai New Area (TBNA) and the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA)

  • The Global Technology Revolution China, In-Depth Analyses: Emerging Technology Opportunities for the Tianjin Binhai New Area (TBNA) and the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA)

  • The Option of an Oil Tax to Fund Transportation and Infrastructure

  • The State of U.S. Railroads: A Review of Capacity and Performance Data

  • Timely Assistance: Evaluating the Speed of Road Home Grantmaking

  • Unconventional Fossil-Based Fuels: Economic and Environmental Trade-Offs

  • Using Outcomes to Assess Teen Substance-Use Treatment Programs—How Feasible?

RAND Social and Economic Well-Being

  • Autonomous Vehicles and the Future of Auto Insurance

  • Bankruptcy and Mass Torts After Harrington v. Purdue

  • Community Citizen Science: From Promise to Action

  • Evaluation of the California Public Defense Pilot Program

  • Well-Being in the Legal Community: From Promise to Practice

RAND Project AIR FORCE

  • “Evolutionary Acquisition” Is a Promising Strategy, but Has Been Difficult to Implement

  • A Repair Network Concept for Air Force Maintenance: Conclusions from Analysis of C-130, F-16, and KC-135 Fleets

  • A Wargame Method for Assessing Risk and Resilience of Military Command-and-Control Organizations

  • Air Base Attacks and Defensive Counters: Historical Lessons and Future Challenges

  • Air Force Assignment Durations: Modeling Policy Changes and Their Effects on Cost, Readiness, and Retention

  • Air Force Major Defense Acquisition Program Cost Growth Is Driven by Three Space Programs and the F-35A: Fiscal Year 2013 President’s Budget Selected Acquisition Reports

  • Air Force Officer Management Flexibilities: Modeling Potential Policies

  • Air Force Personnel Research: Recommendations for Improved Alignment

  • As Enemies Put Innocents at Risk, U.S. Military Must Continue Efforts to Minimize Civilian Deaths and Be Positioned to Better Inform the Public When Casualties Do Occur

  • Assessing the Impact of Future Operations on Trainer Aircraft Requirements

  • China, Russia, and the United States in Low Earth Orbit: Space Assets, Counterspace Capabilities, and Launch Systems

  • China’s Long-Range Bomber Flights: Drivers and Implications

  • Considering U.S. Air Force Culture When Modifying Career Development Pathways for Longer Assignments

  • Continuing Down the Road to Reintegration: Status and Ongoing Support of the U.S. Air Force’s Wounded Warriors

  • Crisis and Escalation in Cyberspace

  • Do Joint Fighter Programs Save Money?

  • Evolutionary Acquisition: Implementation Challenges for Defense Space Programs

  • Factoring Security Cooperation into Core U.S. Air Force Decisionmaking Processes: Incorporating Impact in Planning, Programming, and Capability Development

  • Future Challenges for the Arab World: The Implications of Demographic and Economic Trends

  • Historical Cost Growth of Completed Weapon System Programs

  • Improving Air Force Command and Control Through Enhanced Agile Combat Support Planning, Execution, Monitoring, and Control Processes

  • Improving Air Force Depot Programming by Linking Resources to Capabilities

  • Improving the Civilian Hiring Process in the Department of the Air Force 96th Test Wing

  • Improving the Civilian Hiring Process in the Department of the Air Force 96th Test Wing: Process Map Workflows

  • Insights on Aircraft Programmed Depot Maintenance: An Analysis of F-15 PDM

  • Leveraging the Past to Prepare for the Future of Air Force Intelligence Analysis

  • Methodologies for Analyzing Remotely Piloted Aircraft in Future Roles and Missions

  • Misfortunes of War: Press and Public Reactions to Civilian Deaths in Wartime

  • Modifying Air Force Intelligence Career Development in Response to Targeted Permanent Change of Station Reductions

  • Nuclear-Armed Regional Adversaries: How Deterrable Are They Likely to Be?

  • Recasting NATO’s Strategic Concept: Possible Directions for the United States

  • Reducing Attrition in Selected Air Force Training Pipelines

  • Replacing Aging Trainer Aircraft is a Question More of Cost Than of Capability

  • Shaking the Heavens and Splitting the Earth: Chinese Air Force Employment Concepts in the 21st Century

  • South Asia’s New Strategic Importance Calls for Stronger U.S. Military Relations in the Region

  • Striking First: Preemptive and Preventive Attack in U.S. National Security Policy

  • Supplemental Career Paths for Air Force Pilots: A Warrant Officer Component or an Aviation Technical Track?

  • The Association Between Base-Area Social and Economic Characteristics and Airmen’s Outcomes

  • The Challenge of Nuclear-Armed Regional Adversaries

  • The Future of Air Force Motion Imagery Exploitation: Lessons from the Commercial World

  • The Future of the U.S. Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Force

  • The Latin American Drug Trade: Scope, Dimensions, Impact, and Response

  • The Relative Cost-Effectiveness of Retaining Versus Accessing Air Force Pilots

  • The United States Should Reassess Priorities and Consider Next Steps in Iraq

  • U.S. Policy Options for Iraq: A Reassessment

  • Understanding Demographic Differences in Undergraduate Pilot Training Attrition

  • Understanding Low Survey Response Rates Among Young U.S. Military Personnel

  • War and Escalation in South Asia

  • War and Escalation in South Asia

  • What is the Future of Striking First in U.S. National Security Strategy?

  • Working with Allies and Partners: A Cost-Based Analysis of U.S. Air Forces in Europe

The RAND Army Research Division

  • A Preliminary Assessment of the Regionally Aligned Forces (RAF) Concept’s Implications for Army Personnel Management

  • Assessing Competencies and Proficiency of Army Intelligence Analysts Across the Career Life Cycle

  • Assessing the Value of Regionally Aligned Forces in Army Security Cooperation: An Overview

  • Developing a Methodology for Risk-Informed Trade-Space Analysis in Acquisition

  • Enhancing Military–Civilian Medical Synergies: The Role of Army Medical Practice in Civilian Facilities

  • Expectations About Civilian Labor Markets and Army Officer Retention

  • Exploring the Association Between Military Base Neighborhood Characteristics and Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Outcomes (with RAND Project AIR FORCE)

  • Leveraging Observations of Security Force Assistance in Afghanistan for Global Operations

  • Making the Reserve Retirement System Similar to the Active System: Retention and Cost Estimates

  • Options for Maintaining Clinical Proficiency During Peacetime

  • Quality of Life at Contingency Bases: Managing Sustainment Community Support Requirements

  • Russia Is a Rogue, Not a Peer; China Is a Peer, Not a Rogue: Different Challenges, Different Responses

  • Smarter Power, Stronger Partners, Volume I: Exploiting U.S. Advantages to Prevent Aggression

  • Smarter Power, Stronger Partners, Volume II: Trends in Force Projection Against Potential Adversaries

  • Strategic Planning Tools for the Army Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps Program

  • Stretching and Exploiting Thresholds for High-Order War: How Russia, China, and Iran Are Eroding American Influence Using Time-Tested Measures Short of War

  • The Global Landpower Network: Recommendations for Strengthening Army Engagement

  • The U.S. Military Response to the 2010 Haiti Earthquake: Considerations for Army Leaders