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This report sets forth a ""rule of thumb"" that communications planners can use in making efficient satellite leasing decisions while facing uncertain demand for satellite services.

Artificial satellites in telecommunication. --- Commercial leases. --- Government purchasing. --- Military telecommunication. --- Military telecommunication - United States. --- Telecommunication. --- Telecommunication - United States - Traffic - Esti. --- Telecommunication policy. --- Artificial satellites in telecommunication --- Telecommunication --- Military telecommunication --- Government purchasing --- Commercial leases --- Telecommunication policy --- Estimates --- Traffic

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Drawbacks in the ability of current models to evaluate how many assets would be required to achieve a specific closure (delivery) date prompted RAND to recommend that the Joint Staff develop new models specifically to address mobility requirements issues for military transportation systems. RAND identified two technologies as promising: knowledge-based modeling and mathematical programming modeling. This report describes the development and operating characteristics of a family of strategic mobility models using the mathematical programming approach. It also includes the formulas and GAMs computer programs so that others can verify, duplicate, or extend the model.

Transportation, Military --- Programming (Mathematics) --- Mathematical models. --- United States --- Armed Forces --- Transportation.

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As the defense burden borne by reserve forces has increased, more attention has been paid to differences between retirement systems for the reserve and active components. This report analyzes the systems, discusses the importance of structuring compensation to enable management flexibility, considers obstacles and how they might be overcome, and provides a quantitative assessment of the reserve retention and cost effects of possible proposals.

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In the face of rising tuition costs and the increased importance of scholarships to meeting its commission mission, the Army designed a new scholarship program, known as the tiered scholarship program because it offered four different scholarship values (called tiers). Under the new program, enrollments at public colleges increased modestly and the Army controlled the total scholarship cost. But as feared, many fewer of the nation's most academically able students enrolled in ROTC, and the programs at the nation's most prestigious private colleges and universities were facing the prospect of closure. Based on these findings, the authors recommended and the Army implemented a high-value scholarship targeted to some prestigious private colleges. The study also analyzes several complete scholarship programs to replace the tiered scholarships. The analysis supports plans that continue to offer high-value scholarships at some prestigious private schools, while offering lower values at other schools. Although it would entail some significant tradeoffs, the authors have also presented a plan that would offer greater values to in-state students at public schools--a large potential market, especially if tuition increases in the private schools do not abate in the decade ahead. These offers would require congressional approval because the law currently prohibits the use of scholarships for room and board, which constitute the largest portion of these in-state students' expenses to attend college.

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"The new Blended Retirement System (BRS) represents the first major change to the armed services' retirement system since the end of World War II. The analysis in this report assesses the potential impact of BRS on the U.S. Army Reserve (USAR) participation and continuation pay (CP) cost and provides predictions of opt-in behavior. A key finding is that USAR participation can be sustained relative to the legacy system if CP is set at optimized levels. Furthermore, CP levels affect the likelihood that currently serving members elect the BRS, thereby affecting USAR's time pattern of retirement cost, and cost savings, relative to the legacy system. The project's aim was to provide estimates of the change in costs for the USAR due to the BRS in the transition years and the number of participants, both as a result of new entry to the Army Reserve and election by serving members"--From back cover.

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