The Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom has selected the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) as a replacement for its Harrier aircraft and may purchase up to 150 JSF aircraft. This volume examines overlap of final assembly and repair, the suitability of four UK aerospace companies as potential sites for final assembly, associated costs, and technology transfer implications.

Assembling and Supporting the Joint Strike Fighter in the Uk: Issues and Costs

History

Arena, Mark V.

Cook, Cynthia R.

Younossi, Obaid

Graser, John C.

Pung, Hans

Sollinger, Jerry

Military

UNKNO

Explores the reasons for and ways to anticipate schedule delays in shipbuilding programs.

Monitoring the Progress of Shipbuilding Programs: How Can the Defense Procurement Agency More Accurately Monitor Progress?

Reference

RAND Corporation

Assesses whether shipyards, other naval firms, and suppliers in the United Kingdom have sufficient capacity to meet the demands of the Ministry of Defense's construction of new ships and submarines over the next 15 years.

The United Kingdom Naval Shipbuilding Industrial Base: The Next Fifteen Years

Business & Money

Industries

Nuclear submarine design resources at the shipyards,their suppliers, and the Navy may erode for lack of demand. Analysis of alternative workforce and workload management options suggests that the U.S. Navy should stretch out the design of the next submarine class and start it early or sustain design resources above the current demand, so that the next class may be designed on time, on budget, and with low risk.

Sustaining U.S. Nuclear Submarine Design Capabilities

Riposo, Jessie

Schank, John F.

DeLuca, Paul

Curry, Kimberly

Congress asked RAND for an independent review of whether the estimated savings from proposed multiyear contracts for 60 F-22A aircraft over three years would yield the promised savings. Researchers found that a multiyear procurement of three lots of F-22A fighters would save an estimated $411 million-about 4.5 percent of the total contract value-and that savings attributed to the multiyear contract by the contractors appear to be reasonable.

F-22A Multiyear Procurement Program: An Assessment of Cost Savings: An Assessment of Cost Savings

Brancato, Kevin

Goldsmith, Benjamin W.

This report explores why, in recent decades, military fixed-wing aircraft costs have escalated beyond the rates of commonly used inflation indices, examining both economy-driven factors that the Services cannot control and customer-driven ones that they can. The authors found that this trend of cost increases is true for all types of aircraft patrol, cargo, trainer, bomber, attack, fighter, and electronic warfare.

Why Has the Cost of Fixed-Wing Aircraft Risen?: A Macroscopic Examination of the Trends in U.S. Military Aircraft Costs over the Past Several Decades

Blickstein, Irv

Grammich, Clifford A.

Economics

Defense acquisition is one of the most urgent issues that the Department of Defense faces today. In an effort to provide the department and the nation with guidance on defense acquisition challenges, the authors present detailed proposals to improve defense acquisition through initiatives focused on competition, novel systems, risk management, organizational factors, prototyping, and the acquisition workforce.

From Marginal Adjustments to Meaningful Change: Rethinking Weapon System Acquisition (Rand Corporation Monograph)

Engineering & Transportation

Birkler, John

Gates, Susan M.

Drezner, Jeffrey A.

Engineering

The U.S. Navy asked the RAND Corporation to develop a set of lessons learned from previous submarine programs that could help inform future program managers. This volume presents lessons from three U.S. submarine programs. The RAND team looked at how the programs were managed, the issues that affected management decisions, and the outcomes of those decisions. An overarching lesson from the three programs is the importance of program stability.

Learning from Experience: Lessons from the U.S. Navy's Ohio, Seawolf, and Virginia Submarine Programs (Volume 2)

Murphy, Robert E.

Lee, Gordon T.

Ip, Cesse

Kamarck, Kristy N.

Lacroix, Frank W.

Australia & Oceania

This report documents the structured process that was developed to help project teams identify acquisition framing assumptions (FAs), which are useful in defining and tracking key program assumptions throughout the life of an acquisition program. The process describes a structured deliberation workshop (in the form of a briefing) with the aim of identifying candidate FAs.

Identifying Acquisition Framing Assumptions Through Structured Deliberation

Mayer, Lauren A.

Australia's 2020 Defence Strategic Update calls for increased weapon inventories across the Australian Defence Force, and the authors of this report describe the relevance of five international case studies to Australia in relation to the creation of a Sovereign Guided Weapons Enterprise. Comparable enterprises in Japan, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, Canada and Norway are reviewed to identify the most relevant aspects of each country's experience and its lessons for the development of an Australian Sovereign Guided Weapons Enterprise. The examination provided is not meant to enumerate a list of definitive recommendations based on similar experiences in other countries but rather to highlight areas for consideration and broad early insights (or 'overall lessons') for the Sovereign Guided Weapons Enterprise. To support ongoing enterprise deliberations, the authors craft a framework for the enterprise, based on established best practices. The authors draw seven lessons for establishing a Sovereign Guided Weapons Enterprise. First and foremost is the need for such an enterprise to be bespoke to the Australian domestic and strategic context. Recognition of the complexity of creating such an enterprise is also crucial. The remaining lessons focus heavily on ensuring sustainable economic conditions for a sovereign enterprise, as well as prioritising partnerships and collaborations. Book jacket.

Establishing a Sovereign Guided Weapons Enterprise for Australia: International and Domestic Lessons Learned

Rhodes, Carl

Lucas, Caleb

Mouton, Christopher A.

Dowse, Andrew

Godges, John P.

Grissom, Adam R.

Silfversten, Erik

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