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How, When, and Whether to Employ Non-Lethal Weapons in Diverse Contexts
This report describes how non-lethal weapons can be used in diverse strategic and operational contexts by drawing on insights from psychology and group dynamics and providing vignettes of gray-zone situations, civilian encounters, and combat.
How to Effectively Assess the Impact of Non-Lethal Weapons as Intermediate Force Capabilities
This report describes how to evaluate the impact of non-lethal weapons (NLWs). Characterizing the contribution of NLWs to strategic goals provides insights into their effective integration throughout U.S. Department of Defense operations.
Assessing the Impact of Diverse Intermediate Force Capabilities and Integrating Them Into Wargames for the U.S. Department of Defense and NATO
The authors of this report describe how to measure the impact of intermediate force capabilities (IFCs), which cause less-than-lethal effects, and how to better integrate them into wargaming, modeling, and simulation for U.S. and NATO-wide forces.
Turning Climate Information Into Action for Stormwater Management in the Mid-Atlantic Region
Flooding is one of the costliest types of natural disasters in the United States. Across the Mid-Atlantic region, extreme precipitation-induced flooding has occurred nearly every season since 2018, leading to property damage, business disruptions, injuries, and loss of life. These events are expected to worsen into the future as a consequence of climate change, and communities throughout the region will continue to incur significant losses unless they undertake enhancements in stormwater planning and management to mitigate current and future flood risk. However, planning for extreme precipitation poses a broad set of challenges to stormwater management agencies. This Perspective presents key information needs for these agencies that could help lower barriers to understanding climate change and operationalizing climate information in local policies, regulations, and infrastructure design. Recommendations for applied research that would address these barriers and support stormwater management agencies in more effective climate adaptation at local, regional, and national scales are also described.
Measuring Strategic Readiness
The authors explore a more expansive approach to readiness assessments that goes beyond the narrow lens of operational readiness and considers a broader set of dimensions that could affect readiness outcomes.
Accounting for Climate Resilience in Infrastructure Investment Decisionmaking
A new approach allows comparison of infrastructure projects based on their ability to improve installation resilience to climate-related hazards, supporting the Department of the Air Force's climate resilience investment decisionmaking.
Commercial Space Capabilities and Market Overview
In this broad review of commercial space capabilities that could support the U.S. Space Force's future space architecture and innovation ecosystem, the authors characterize capabilities and trends through mid-2020 in seven commercial space sectors.
Logic Model for Non-Lethal Weapons in the U.S. Department of Defense
A multi-year RAND project examined how to evaluate the tactical, operational, and strategic impact of non-lethal weapons (NLWs), a subset of intermediate force capabilities (IFCs). Researchers delineated the direct outputs and higher-level outcomes of NLW usage, considered how to measure their impact, and linked them to the strategic goals of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Their findings provided insight into how to better integrate NLWs throughout DoD. The logic model in this visualization is intended to help characterize the impact of NLWs within DoD. The model provides a structure in which activities are linked to direct outputs, which contribute to higher-level outcomes, then to ultimate strategic goals from the 2022 National Defense Strategy. Those goals include strengthening alliances and partnerships; improving competitive advantage over adversaries; building a resilient joint force and defense ecosystem; defending the homeland; deterring aggression and strategic attacks against the U.S., allies, and partners; and prevailing in conflict when necessary.
Leveraging Commercial Space Services
The expanding global commercial space industry offers new opportunities--such as technological advances in small satellites, lower launch costs, and innovative satellite applications--that could help the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) meet its mission requirements more efficiently and give it access to a broader innovation pool. The Department of the Air Force (DAF), particularly the U.S. Space Force (USSF), is increasing its partnership activities with the commercial space industry to take advantage of these opportunities. As the DAF makes investment decisions to leverage commercial space capabilities, it needs a better understanding of opportunities, risks, and challenges it might encoun...
Proposed Analytical Products for the Air Force Warfighting Integration Capability
RAND Project Air Force assisted the Air Force Warfighting Integration Capability (AFWIC) in conceptualizing analytical and other products to support concept development, options for future force design, and capability development planning.
