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Jun 2, 2025

One Team, One Fight: Volume I, Insights on Human-Machine Integration for the U.S. Army

The authors investigate the difficulties that the Army might encounter as it attempts to pair humans with artificial intelligence algorithms to accomplish specific warfighting tasks and how these potential obstacles can be overcome.
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Apr 18, 2025

Developing Combat Support Mission Ready Airmen for Agile Combat Employment

RAND researchers evaluated the process of organizing, training, and utilizing combat support mission ready airmen for agile combat employment by interviewing U.S. Air Force policy experts, conducting a workshop, and running simulation models.
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Oct 4, 2023

Connector Survivability in the Current Operating Environment

Current operating concepts and an evolving threat environment demand that the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps reevaluate survivability in their analysis of the current and future fleet of Navy amphibious connectors.
May 22, 2023

Improving Combat Support Analyses to Better Inform Decisionmaking: Insights from RAND Research

This portfolio of combat support analyses conducted by RAND Project AIR FORCE highlights examples of enterprise-wide analyses, vulnerability and resilience analyses, and resource allocation analyses in support of U.S. Air Force decisionmaking.
Research

May 16, 2023

U.S. Major Combat Operations in the Indo-Pacific: Partner and Ally Views

This report, one of two, focuses on whether partners and allies have the willingness to support U.S. operations in a major Indo-Pacific conflict. The companion report focuses on technical and operational issues.
Research

Mar 16, 2023

Organizing and Training Airfield Operations Capabilities for Emerging Expeditionary Operations: Potential Courses of Action

The authors identify ways to enable the airfield operations (AO) career fields to respond to the needs created by the Dynamic Force Employment concept and the USAF implementation of Agile Combat Employment.
Feb 1, 2023

Implications of Climate Change for Department of the Air Force Missions and Operations

This compilation of climate research conducted within RAND Project AIR FORCE for the Department of the Air Force and more broadly across RAND offers insights about climate change and its implications for military operations and other contexts.
Project

Oct 14, 2021

Achieving global mobility for the UK Armed Forces

Researchers propose a range of options that could help the UK MOD meet its global mobility requirements between now and 2040 while offering the mobility fleet both effectiveness and resilience.
Research

Mar 16, 2021

Command and Control of U.S. Air Force Combat Support in a High-End Fight

This report describes new concepts for U.S. Air Force combat support command and control while under persistent multi-domain attack during a high-end fight, specifically to support maneuver and functioning in a communications degraded environment.
Research

Jan 20, 2021

Measuring Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Effectiveness at the United States Central Command

The authors developed a repeatable process to measure the effectiveness of U.S. Central Command intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance operations; evaluate current performance; and plan for, influence, and resource future operations.
Tool

Sep 24, 2020

A Modeling Framework for Optimizing U.S. Air Force Fighter Pilot Access to Advanced Training Ranges

This tool presents the technical details of an optimization model for the U.S. Air Force to analyze the potential effectiveness of different combinations of range upgrades and squadron restationing to improve access to advanced ranges.
Research

Apr 16, 2020

Naval Surface Fire Support: An Assessment of Requirements

The authors developed recommendations to improve existing formal requirements and technological solutions regarding naval surface fire support, a way for the U.S. Navy to provide the equivalent of artillery support for forces operating ashore.

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One Team, One Fight: Volume I, Insights on Human-Machine Integration for the U.S. Army

Developing Combat Support Mission Ready Airmen for Agile Combat Employment

Connector Survivability in the Current Operating Environment

Improving Combat Support Analyses to Better Inform Decisionmaking: Insights from RAND Research

U.S. Major Combat Operations in the Indo-Pacific: Partner and Ally Views

Organizing and Training Airfield Operations Capabilities for Emerging Expeditionary Operations: Potential Courses of Action

Implications of Climate Change for Department of the Air Force Missions and Operations

Achieving global mobility for the UK Armed Forces

Command and Control of U.S. Air Force Combat Support in a High-End Fight

Measuring Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Effectiveness at the United States Central Command

A Modeling Framework for Optimizing U.S. Air Force Fighter Pilot Access to Advanced Training Ranges

Naval Surface Fire Support: An Assessment of Requirements

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One Team, One Fight: Volume I, Insights on Human-Machine Integration for the U.S. Army

Developing Combat Support Mission Ready Airmen for Agile Combat Employment

Connector Survivability in the Current Operating Environment

Improving Combat Support Analyses to Better Inform Decisionmaking: Insights from RAND Research

U.S. Major Combat Operations in the Indo-Pacific: Partner and Ally Views

Organizing and Training Airfield Operations Capabilities for Emerging Expeditionary Operations: Potential Courses of Action

Implications of Climate Change for Department of the Air Force Missions and Operations

Achieving global mobility for the UK Armed Forces

Command and Control of U.S. Air Force Combat Support in a High-End Fight

Measuring Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Effectiveness at the United States Central Command

A Modeling Framework for Optimizing U.S. Air Force Fighter Pilot Access to Advanced Training Ranges

Naval Surface Fire Support: An Assessment of Requirements

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