Books written by Cynthia R. Cook

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  A Methodology for Comparing Costs and Benefits of Management Alternatives for F-22 Sustainment

  The U.S. Air Force asked RAND Project AIR FORCE to perform a congressionally required assessment of contractor versus organic management of F-22 air vehicle and F119 engine sustainment to determine the most cost-effective approach.

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  What the Army Needs to Know to Align Its Operational and Institutional Activities

  As the Army transforms its operating force, it must also transform its institutional activities to align them with operating forces and to release resources from institutional activities that the Army can use to add new brigades and weapon ...

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  A Clean Sheet Approach to Space Acquisition in Light of the New Space Force

  The authors describe an unconstrained ?clean sheet? approach to space acquisition for the U.S. Space Force designed around the unique mission and calling of the new service.

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  Military Airframe Acquisition Costs: The Effects of Lean Manufacturing

  This report examines the package of new tools and techniques known as lean production to see if it would enable aircraft manufacturers to produce new weapon systems at costs below those predicted by historical cost estimating models.

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  What the Army Needs to Know to Align Its Operational and Institutional Activities: Executive Summary

  As the U.S. Army transforms its combat force, inevitably the institutional Army -- the "generating force" that fills and sustains the Army's combat units -- must change as well. Stabilizing...

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  What the Army Needs to Know to Align Its Operational and Institutional Activities

  Figure 2.1 provides a simplified map of high-level institutional activities and the products they generate11 for consumption inside and outside the institutional Army.12 The solid black arrows represent the primary places where the ...

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

  The United Kingdom has many contracted and prospective shipbuilding programmes on the horizon over the next two decades.