This report evaluates four recent Air Force Major Defense Acquisition Programs with low cost growth and compares and contrasts their key characteristics to the six programs evaluated with extreme cost
This report describes how to best measure and assess the progress and outcomes of locally focused stability operations—the missions, tasks, and activities that create stability by building security, g
This report documents the results of a qualitative study designed to better understand the factors that female Air Force officers consider when deciding whether to remain in the active duty Air Force.
This report documents RAND’s efforts to develop a long-term remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) career field planning model that addresses force health; it explains the model’s main features,
This report examines recent patterns in military-to-civilian conversion—that is, converting military positions to government civilian positions—to identify the primary impediments to such conversions.
According to the U.S. Department of Defense, approximately one-third of military service members experience a permanent change of station (PCS) move every year. The authors researched programs that ad
DRAYA JENNINGS is a sheltered country girl from Gonzalez, La. Under her mother’s influence, she has college aspirations that’ll help her struggling family thrive but when she meets her best friend, VE
Plant pathologists and related scientists look at the world's five major grains--wheat, maize, rice, barley, and sorghum--and evaluate the danger from mycotoxins--fungal secondary metabolites--in each
This compelling study of the origins of all that exists, including explanations of the entire material world, traces the responses of philosophers and scientists to the most elemental and haunting que
Might we be parts of a divine mind? Could anything like an afterlife make sense? Starting with a Platonic answer to why the world exists, Immortality Defended suggests we could well be immortal in all
Might we be parts of a divine mind? Could anything like an afterlife make sense? Starting with a Platonic answer to why the world exists, Immortality Defended suggests we could well be immortal in all
For the first time in over 20 years, a comprehensive collection of photographs and descriptions of species in the fungal genus Fusarium is available. This laboratory manual provides an overview of the
Papers from the September 2000 meeting in Guanajuato, Mexico focus on integrated management of sorghum and pearl millet diseases and the importance of these crops in agro-ecosystems. Whereas in the la
Here is a rapid and practical way for tourists, students, and businesspeople to master the basics of Spanish and begin speaking it. Unlike traditionally dry language texts based on rote memorization a
Older people are, like younger people, citizens in the communities of the nations in which they live. Citizenship implies a solidarity among everyone in their nation, but also a recognition that our i
Older people are, like younger people, citizens in the communities of the nations in which they live. Citizenship implies a solidarity among everyone in their nation, but also a recognition that our i