Planning and Decision-making

The Director of Acquisition Education, Training and Career Development within the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Reform, in collaboration with the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civilian Personnel Policy, asked the RAND Corporation to assist the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and several of the defense components in formulating the first iteration of these plans and then evaluating the components’ plans.

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This report examines the Air Force’s training management and decision processes to determine the need for data to support informed decisionmaking. It briefly reviews training management systems and associated organizational arrangements in the other services and the private sector to draw insights for a model management system for the Air Force. Impediments to training planning and management in the current Air

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Coastal Louisiana's built and natural environment faces risks from catastrophic tropical storms. Concurrently, the region is experiencing a dramatic conversion of coastal land and associated habitats to open water and a loss of important services provided by such ecosystems. Louisiana's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) engaged in a detailed modeling, simulation, and analysis exercise, the results of which informed Louisiana's Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast.

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Particularly if poverty reduction is the goal, listening to the poor, in- volving them in decisionmaking, in the planning and implementation of programs and projects that affect their lives is a must. Empowerment of the poor is as critical to their well-being as giving them the projects, investments, and programs to improve their quality of life. Some of these insights implicitly or explicitly shape and influence the thinking of social funds, but this is an evolving process. New insights are made every day.

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Recent events make this report both timely and urgent. They have dramatically underscored the importance of an effective, comprehensive health information infrastructure that links all health decisionmakers, including the public. Based on public hearings about the NHII, the Committee has determined that Federal leadership, under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is the most important missing ingredient that could accelerate and coordinate progress on the NHII.

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3 Recording Financial Transactions and the Limitations of Accounting. In order to understand the scorekeeping process, we need to understand how accounting captures information that is subsequently used for planning, decisionmaking and control purposes.

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