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Sustaining U.S. Nuclear Submarine Design Capabilities

By: John Frederic Schank

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Sustaining U.S. Nuclear Submarine Design Capabilities

By: John Frederic Schank

For the first time since the design of the first nuclear submarine, the U.S. Navy has no nuclear submarine design program under way, which raises the possibility that design capability could be lost. Such a loss could result in higher costs and delays when the next submarine design is undertaken, as well as risks to system performance and safety. The authors estimate and compare the costs and delays of letting design capability erode vs. those of alternative means of managing the workload and workforce over the gap in design demand and beyond. The authors recommend that the Navy consider stret.

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Rand Corporation

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0833041606

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9780833041609

Increasing Aircraft Carrier Forward Presence

Changing the Length of the Maintenance Cycle

By: Roland J. Yardley,James G. Kallimani,John F. Schank,Clifford A. Grammich

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Increasing Aircraft Carrier Forward Presence

Changing the Length of the Maintenance Cycle

By: Roland J. Yardley,James G. Kallimani,John F. Schank,Clifford A. Grammich

The U.S. Navy's aircraft carrier fleet must meet the forward presence requirements of theater commanders. With a decreasing fleet size, planners must balance the timing of maintenance, training, and deployment with presence and surge demands. Evaluating multiple one- and two-deployment scenarios per cycle, RAND examines the feasibility of different cycle lengths, their effect on carrier forward presence, and their impact on shipyard workloads.

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0833045954

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9780833045959

Using the Steel-Vessel Material-Cost Index to Mitigate Shipbuilder Risk

By: Edward G. Keating,Robert Murphy,John F. Schank,John Birkler

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Using the Steel-Vessel Material-Cost Index to Mitigate Shipbuilder Risk

By: Edward G. Keating,Robert Murphy,John F. Schank,John Birkler

The more accurately a cost index captures a shipbuilder's risk, the less the Navy should have to pay its shipbuilders. The Navy uses such indexes to correct for significant cost risks outside its shipbuilders' control. A longtime material-cost index in Navy shipbuilding is the steel-vessel index, but it is outdated and volatile. The authors urge the Navy to develop a modern-vessel index that more appropriately represents the materials used today.

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0833046039

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9780833046031

British Defence in the 21st Century

By: John Louth,Trevor Taylor

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British Defence in the 21st Century

By: John Louth,Trevor Taylor

This book analyses UK defence as a complex, interdependent public-private enterprise covering politics, management, society, and technology, as well as the military. Building upon wide-ranging applied research, with extensive access to ministers, policy makers, senior military commanders, and industrialists, the book characterises British defence as a phenomenon that has endured extensive transformation this century. Looking at the subject afresh as a complex, extended enterprise involving politics, alliances, businesses, skills, economics, military practices, and citizens, the authors profoundly reshape our understanding of ‘defence’ and how it is to be commissioned and delivered in a world dominated by geopolitical risks and uncertainties. The book makes the case that this new understanding of defence must inevitably lead to new policies and processes to ensure its health and vitality. This book will be of much interest to students of defence studies, British politics, and military and strategic studies, as well as policy makers and practitioners.

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275

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Routledge

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1351784897

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9781351784894

U.S. Navy Shipyards

An Evaluation of Workload- and Workforce-management Practices

By: Jessie Riposo

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U.S. Navy Shipyards

An Evaluation of Workload- and Workforce-management Practices

By: Jessie Riposo

RAND therefore investigated cost-effective workforce-management strategies, alternative workload allocations, and the relevant best practices of comparable organizations. The authors concluded that the Navy uses practices common in other organizations to manage workload variability and uncertainty. However, the Navy's workload forecasts have consistently underestimated the eventual demand on the shipyards. To accomplish the additional, unplanned work, the Navy has used overtime levels that significantly exceed cost-effective levels."-- P. [4] of cover.

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0833045695

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9780833045690

Book's by John Frederic Schank

Sustaining U.S. Nuclear Submarine Design Capabilities

Sustaining U.S. Nuclear Submarine Design Capabilities

Increasing Aircraft Carrier Forward Presence

Increasing Aircraft Carrier Forward Presence

Using the Steel-Vessel Material-Cost Index to Mitigate Shipbuilder Risk

Using the Steel-Vessel Material-Cost Index to Mitigate Shipbuilder Risk

British Defence in the 21st Century

British Defence in the 21st Century

U.S. Navy Shipyards

U.S. Navy Shipyards

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