Lauren A Mayer - Böcker

America's War for Independence dramatically affected the speed and nature of broader social, cultural, and political changes including those shaping the place and roles of women in society. Women fought the American Revolution in many ways, in a l...

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Because license plate reader (LPR) technology is relatively new in the United States, opportunities and obstacles in its use in law enforcement are still under exploration. To examine issues about this technology, RAND conducted interviews with la...

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Through analysis of alternative courses of action and their effects on probability distributions estimated for performance, schedule, and cost, acquisition decisionmakers can understand the implications of certain risk-mitigating actions.

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This report provides a risk assessment methodology that integrates risk factors and risk management approaches tailored to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's management, operations, and acquisition structures.

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This document explains how to apply guidance on project evaluation to product support business case analyses in a way that allows senior Department of Defense decisionmakers to use net present value to compare courses of action.

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This report presents a framework for the development of metrics-and a method for scoring them-that indicates how well a U.S. Air Force mission or system is expected to perform in a cyber-contested environment. There are two types of cyber metrics:...

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The U.S. Department of Defense has authority to use other transactions for prototype projects (OTs) to develop prototypes outside of most federal laws and regulations governing contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements. Through literature revie...

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Air Force activities to ensure resiliency to adversarial cyber operations are somewhat fractionated, with blurred lines of authority and no overall coordinating mechanisms to ensure that all related activities are identified, tasked, and implement...

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What do experts envision as the largest technology-based challenges the U.S. Joint Force could confront by 2040? The authors develop and implement a three-stage approach to elicit and evaluate ideas from experts on technology challenges that are ?...

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Systems and operations have become more dependent on interconnected electronics and data. As that dependence grows, so does the need for mission assurance in the face of adversarial cyber operations. The authors offer ways to help wings assure the...

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Cyber mission thread analysis (CMTA), which identifies mission-critical systems in a cyber threat environment, requires a disciplined, well-planned process for its execution. This report provides a proposed planning and implementation guide (1) to...

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The acquisition process for a new weapon system involves developing a set of technical requirements-a set of statements or models defining what a system should do and how well it should do it-for the system's design to ensure that the system provi...

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The authors of this report describe a tool designed to help U.S. Department of Defense decisionmakers select from the many available approaches to promote and protect critical technologies and their associated industrial base.

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The authors identify ways to improve the U.S. Space Force's (USSF's) capability requirements development to help USSF achieve its core mission in the face of rapidly developing adversary capabilities in space.

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The authors evaluate the possible utility of electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, how much influence the U.S. Air Force has on technical development and supply chains, and options for adopting emerging commercial technology.

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