An improving analytic support to senior defense leaders Mouton, Christopher A., author Bartels, Elizabeth M., author Frank, Aaron B., author Godges, John, author Grissom, Adam, author United States. Department of the Air Force Project AIR FORCE (U.S.). Strategy and Doctrine Program Rand Corporation text bibliography text cau 2022 monographic Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, publisher [2022] eng

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1 electronic resource (viii, 38 pages ) Cost-per-effect analysis aims to improve decisionmaking through an enterprise-wide approach to cost-effectiveness. Such an approach would allow decisionmakers to compare alternatives not just within a single mission area or facet but also across an entire enterprise. Promising advancements in defense planning will most likely be realized through deliberate and incremental improvements in current cost-effectiveness techniques. Cost-per-effect is cost-effectiveness with a broader, or joint, focus that supports higher-level decisionmaking. The authors show how the Department of the Air Force (DAF) can begin to implement cost-per-effect analysis by following the analytic framework for measuring cost-per-effect proposed in this report. This framework consists of five interrelated measurements: effects, costs, campaigns, trade-offs, and optimization. The authors also show how the DAF, with its joint partners, could follow the programmatic framework of processes, proposed in this report, for implementing enterprise cost-effectiveness analysis. These processes adopt the Plan-Do-Check-Act approach to incorporate continuous improvement. Drawing from subject-matter expertise and findings from the literature analysis and a tabletop exercise, the authors highlight several key insights about the ongoing defense analytic problem and its enduring challenges, including the analytic complexity of defense planning, the analytic complexity of cost estimation, the analytic complexity of effectiveness estimation, and the limitations of modeling and analysis. They conclude by offering next steps to contribute to discussions about possibly implementing cost-per-effect analysis into defense planning and improving the defense planning process. Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: The Defense Analytic Problem and Enduring Challenges -- Chapter Three: Frameworks for Measuring and Implementing Enterprise Cost-Effectiveness -- Chapter Four: Enterprise Cost-Effectiveness Tabletop Exercise -- Chapter Five: Findings, Recommendations, and Next Steps. This is non-restricted, fully open content that may be accessed on and off of the Library of Congress campus, with no restrictions, by an unlimited number of users Christopher A. Mouton, Elizabeth M. Bartels, Aaron B. Frank, John P. Godges, Adam R. Grissom. "Prepared for the Department of the Air Force" "RAND PROJECT AIR FORCE" Title from PDF document (viewed December 5, 2022) Includes bibliographical references (pages 34-38). Description based on electronic resource Description based on print version record; resource not viewed. n-us--- United States. Air Force Appropriations and expenditures United States. Air Force Planning United States. Air Force Procurement United States Armed Forces Cost effectiveness United States Armed Forces Decision making UG1123 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2024738925 RR-A1425-1 Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, [2022] 1977410421 (DLC) 2023275230 1977410421 9781977410429 2024738925 pn DLC 250213 20250607132541.2 24030546 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208) eng