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The U.S. Air Force has traditionally acquired software through the military acquisition process. This acquisition process is used broadly for diverse types of purchases and requires considerable time. Concerned that this approach is not ideally suited for the acquisition of rapidly evolving, innovative software, the U.S Air Force re-assessed its previous make or buy decision regarding software and stood up Kessel Run. Kessel Run is an innovative, in-house software development organization, intended to assess the viability of "re-insourcing" software development. This research reports on a case analysis of Kessel Run. We explore why and how the Air Force developed Kessel Run and offer insights into its operation. Our results suggest that, while cost-reduction goals certainly facilitated Kessel Run's origin and cost reduction has remained a benefit, the primary driver and benefit of re-insourcing Kessel Run is capability development. This finding seems to support a resource-based logic to insourcing. Our results also show that the leaders of Kessel Run succeeded in establishing the organization by relying on commercial start-up concepts, which allowed the organization to attract talent, develop capabilities, and meet customer needs far faster than typical acquisition approaches. We identify lessons learned and implications for other re-insourcing opportunities. ; Prepared for the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 93943. ; Naval Postgraduate School ; Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. ; Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

The U.S. Air Force has traditionally acquired software through the military acquisition process. This acquisition process is used broadly for diverse types of purchases and requires considerable time. Concerned that this approach is not ideally suited for the acquisition of rapidly evolving, innovative software, the U.S Air Force re-assessed its previous make or buy decision regarding software and stood up Kessel Run. Kessel Run is an innovative, in-house software development organization, intended to assess the viability of "re-insourcing" software development. This research reports on a case analysis of Kessel Run. We explore why and how the Air Force developed Kessel Run and offer insights into its operation. Our results suggest that, while cost-reduction goals certainly facilitated Kessel Run's origin and cost reduction has remained a benefit, the primary driver and benefit of re-insourcing Kessel Run is capability development. This finding seems to support a resource-based logic to insourcing. Our results also show that the leaders of Kessel Run succeeded in establishing the organization by relying on commercial start-up concepts, which allowed the organization to attract talent, develop capabilities, and meet customer needs far faster than typical acquisition approaches. We identify lessons learned and implications for other re-insourcing opportunities. ; Prepared for the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 93943. ; Naval Postgraduate School ; Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. ; Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

Public health initiatives aim to improve health outcomes for populations by preventing disease and ill-health consequences of environmental hazards and natural or human-made disasters. Whilst public health initiatives have been used successfully to modify behaviours for chronic diseases, many initiatives targeting reduced dementia risk in older adults suffer from conceptual and statistical flaws that greatly limit their usefulness. The limited success in modifying lifestyle dementia risk factors has led us to fall short in building a successful roadmap to dementia risk reduction. Here we argue for adopting a population-level, holistic approach to dementia risk reduction strategies across the lifespan. This approach is supplemented by 10 strategies that focus on improving social policies, harnessing existing policy, legislature and incentive schemes, and identifying feasible approaches to increase recreational and transport-related physical activity to creating best practice health care that supports healthy brain ageing for all.

Public health initiatives aim to improve health outcomes for populations by preventing disease and ill-health consequences of environmental hazards and natural or human-made disasters. Whilst public health initiatives have been used successfully to modify behaviours for chronic diseases, many initiatives targeting reduced dementia risk in older adults suffer from conceptual and statistical flaws that greatly limit their usefulness. The limited success in modifying lifestyle dementia risk factors has led us to fall short in building a successful roadmap to dementia risk reduction. Here we argue for adopting a population-level, holistic approach to dementia risk reduction strategies across the lifespan. This approach is supplemented by 10 strategies that focus on improving social policies, harnessing existing policy, legislature and incentive schemes, and identifying feasible approaches to increase recreational and transport-related physical activity to creating best practice health care that supports healthy brain ageing for all.