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Australia's submarine design capabilities and capacities: challenges and options for the future submarine
In: RAND Corporation monograph series
"In the mid-2020s, the Royal Australian Navy plans to retire the oldest of its Collins-class submarines. Australia intends to acquire 12 new submarines to replace the Collins-class vessels. The Australian Department of Defence asked RAND to assess the domestic engineering and design skills that industry and the government will need to design the vessels, the skills that they currently possess, and ways to fill any gaps between the two. Although Australian industry has numerous technical draftsmen and engineers, few have experience in submarine design, and their availability may be limited due to demands on their time from other programs. The researchers concluded that (1) using this inexperienced domestic workforce instead of a fully experienced one to design the new submarine would lengthen the time it would take to complete the design by three to four years and would increase the costs by about 20 percent, (2) adding submarine-experienced personnel from abroad would shorten the schedule and lessen the cost increase, and (3) taking 20 years rather than 15 years to design the submarine would reduce the peak demand for designers and draftsmen." --From publisher description
Differences between military and commercial shipbuilding: applications for the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence
In: RAND Corporation monograph series
The US Coast Guard's deepwater force modernization plan: can it be accelerated? ; will it meet changing security needs?
In: RAND Corporation monograph series
Future combat environments: implications for the engine development process: This paper was prepared for the AIAA/SAE/ASME 20th Joint Propulsion Conference, held in Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 11-13 1984
In: Rand Paper, P-7006
In: Rand Library Collection
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From marginal adjustments to meaningful change: rethinking weapon system acquisition
In: RAND Corporation monograph series
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 in several areas likely to be of critical importance to defense acquisition leadership, the authors have compiled in this monograph six previously published RAND papers that offer thought-provoking suggestions based on decades of research, new quantitative assessments, a RAND-developed cost-analysis methodology, and the expertise of core research staff. They present detailed proposals to improve defense acquisition through initiatives focused on competition, novel systems, risk management, organizational factors, prototyping, and the acquisition workforce
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Issues associated with second-source procurement decisions
In: Rand Report, R-3996-RC
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The Global Hawk: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle acquisition process: A summary of phase I experience
In: Rand Report, MR-809-DARPA
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