To achieve a more responsive and more readily deployable fleet of surface combatants, the Navy adopted the Fleet Response Plan (FRP) in 2003 to replace its traditional two-year ship maintenance cycle. The authors of this report look at the effects the FRP has had thus far and determine whether maintenance resources are meeting maintenance demands and whether related industry resources have been coordinated effectively.

Impacts of the Fleet Response Plan on Surface Combatant Maintenance (Technical Report)

History

Riposo, Jessie

Schank, John F.

Yardley, Roland J.

Raman, Raj

Chiesa, James

Military

RAND Corporation

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

Arena, Mark V.

DeLuca, Paul

Curry, Kimberly

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, Executive Summary

Schank, John

Arena, Mark

This evaluation of the participation of organizations within the Navy Enterprise in the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE) system (1) identifies and describes the current participation of Navy Enterprise organizations in PPBE and (2) identifies and assesses potential alternatives for Navy Enterprise participation.

Navy Enterprises: Evaluating Their Role in Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE)

Engineering & Transportation

Blickstein, Irv

Friel, John A.

Fell, Kendle

Engineering

Navy and Marine Corps Sea Basing concepts envision the rapid deployment, assembly, command, projection, reconstitution, and re-employment of expeditionary forces from the sea. RAND researchers assessed alternative structures for the proposed Maritime Prepositioning Force (Future), or MPF(F), squadron and their effects on operational support. For example, eliminating large-deck ships could be offset by substituting CH-53K helicopters for MV-22s.

Maritime Prepositioning Force (Future) Capability Assessment: Planned and Alternative Structures (Rand Corporation Monograph)

Wilson, Peter A.

Button, Robert W.

Gordon IV, John

Hoffmann, Dick

Transportation

RAND Project AIR FORCE identified key conditions to aid the success of business transformation enabled by enterprise resource planning systems, challenges the Air Force must address to achieve them, and options for overcoming these challenges.

Improving Air Force Enterprise Resource Planning-Enabled Business Transformation

Business & Money

Shelton, William

Fox, Bernard

Weichenberg, Guy

Duran, Chelsea Kaihoi

Thorsen, Andreas

Management & Leadership

This report summarizes a selection of the defense acquisition literature from the 1960s to the present on potential sources of prolonged acquisition cycle times and schedule growth, as well as potential opportunities for improvement.

Prolonged Cycle Times and Schedule Growth in Defense Acquisition: A Literature Review

Americas

The U.S. Navy's aviation maintenance capability suffers from supportability issues because of its antiquated software architecture and codebase. This report presents the results of an analysis of alternatives for fielding the Naval Aviation Maintenance System, which is intended to help modernize the Navy's afloat and ashore maintenance capabilities. The authors find that the Navy should migrate to a commercial off-the-shelf solution.

Naval Aviation Maintenance System: Analysis of Alternatives

Wilson, Bradley

Goughnour, Thomas

Burns, Rachel M.

Vermeer, Michael J. D.

Kochhar, Ajay K.

Bohman, Angelena

Eisman, Mel

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