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Building on a Legacy
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The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit research organization providing
objective analysis and effective solutions that address the challenges
facing the public and private sectors around the world.
Corporate Headquarters1776 Main StreetP.O. Box 2138Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138V 310.393.0411F 310.393.4818
Washington Office1200 South Hayes StreetArlington, VA 22202-5050V 703.413.1100F 703.413.8111
Pit tsburgh Office201 North Craig StreetSuite 202Pit tsburgh, PA 15213-1516V 412.683.2300F 412.683.2800
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Strategic Analysis:The Long-TermCompetition
Remotely PilotedVehicles
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Exotic Materialsand Fuels
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Missiles vs. Aircraft
Air Defense Strategic Offensive Forces Study
Packet Switching:Seed of the Internet
METRIC
The Operational Code of the Politburo
Problem-Solvingwith Monte CarloTechniques
InformationProcessingLanguage (IPL)
DetectingNuclear Tests
LinearProgrammingand Extensions
Sea-Based vs. Land-Based Tactical Air
Computer Security Manpower and Personnel Policies
JOHNNIACDigitalComputer
ReconnaissanceSatellites
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Economics ofDefense in theNuclear Age
Remote AreaConfl ict Space Defense
A Proposed Strategyfor the Acquisitionof Avionics Equipment
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Selection andUse of StrategicAir Bases
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First Project RAND letter contract (to Douglas Aircraft Co.)
RAND Corporation established
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Headquarters opens at 1700 Main Street, Santa Monica
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New York City-RAND Institute established
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National Security Research Division established
Institute for Civil Justice established
National Defense Research Institute and the Arroyo Center established
European American Center opens (later becomes RAND Europe)
Critical Technologies Institute established
Center for Domestic and International Health Security created
RAND-Qatar Policy Institute opens
RAND division on Infrastructure, Safety, and the Environment established
RAND moves into new headquarters at 1776 Main Street, Santa Monica
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Preventive DentalCare for Children
Malaysian FamilyLife Survey
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Career Criminals
Asian Security: Policiesfor a Time of Transition
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Revitalization ofCleveland’s Economy
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Dyna-METRIC
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Teen Drug Abuse andSmoking Prevention:Project ALERT
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Terrorism in theUnited States
Next Phase of U.S.–Soviet Relations
Closing the Gap: FortyYears of EconomicProgress for Blacks
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Conventional ArmsControl Revisited
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The New Calculus:Analyzing Airpower’sChanging Role
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Large-Scale Education Testing
Treatment of Depression
How Americans Were Affected by the Events of 9/11
California Energy Crisis
Education Vouchers and Charter Schools
Cost of Prescription Drug Plans
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Medicare Payment for Rehabilitation
The Changing Workplace
Parity Legislation for Mental Health
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Building on a Legacy Message from the Chairman and the President
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The Year in Review
R AND Staff
Investing in Ideas
Educational Opportunities
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Financial Report
Now that the boxes are unpacked in our new headquarters building, we can refl ect on the process of moving our address a couple hundred yards south from 1700 to 1776 Main Street. The movement, though modest, bespeaks of larger things.
RAND’s leaders identifi ed the need for a new facility 20 years ago. The movement might have seemed glacial to some, but our progress was steady, even under budget once we fi xed on our plan fi ve years ago. Each step led to the next, and we ended up in a much better place.
It is fi tting to wax philosophical, or at least metaphorical. For nearly six decades, we at the RAND Corporation have been building on a legacy of accomplishments, adding new stories to the foundation and scaling heights that never could have been imagined at the outset. At times, our progress might have seemed imperceptible. But throughout it all, we have taken what we have learned, and we have kept growing and reaching beyond our last best success.
Bu il ding onMessage from the Chairman and the President
The roots of many of our accomplishments in 2004 can be traced to earlier decades. The pioneers of the Delphi technique, a groundbreaking RAND methodology of the 1950s, probably never envisioned the day when an underlying concept of their technique, fi rst used to forecast future military technologies, would be used to assess the benefi ts of the arts. Equally unanticipated, our extensive work in securing the skies has spread, more than ever, to securing the seas. Meanwhile, our latest work in the fi eld of human health has led to an utterly unprecedented area of inquiry regarding healthful versus unhealthful built environments.
In the pages that follow, we describe these developments in greater detail. We also summarize fi ve other examples of building on our legacies in strikingly dissimilar fi elds: military personnel, civil justice, homeland security, education, and religion.
Judging by our work in 2004, we could never rightfully claim that RAND’s best days lie in its past. Our latest legacies compel us to believe that RAND’s best days are yet to come.
For nearly six decades, we have been building on
a legacy of accomplishments, adding new stories
to the foundation and scaling heights that never
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K E V I N M C C A R T H Y
Kevin McCarthy is a senior social scientist at the RAND Corporation. He has led several recent arts projects: reframing the debate about the benefi ts of the arts; a series of separate studies of the state of the performing arts and the visual arts, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts; a study of the media arts, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation; and an analysis of how to build public involvement in the arts, commissioned by The Wallace Foundation. Dr. McCarthy has also written extensively on demographic trends and their policy implications.
In the 1950s, RAND researchers formulated the Delphi technique, a methodology for eliciting the intuitive judgments of experts and for building a group consen-sus. The technique has proven useful in extrapolating informed opinion in the absence of exact knowledge.
In 2004, RAND analysts applied the spirit of this tech-nique in distilling expert intuition about the benefi ts of the arts. The analysts found that policymakers today need this kind of broader expert perspective—one that draws on the knowledge of philosophers, art critics, and artists themselves as well as social scientists and economists—to account for the benefi ts of the arts to individuals and society.
In recent years, political and fi nancial pressures have compelled arts advocates to justify public support for the arts by trumpeting their “instrumental” benefi ts—that is, benefi ts that are not unique to the arts experi-ence per se but that serve as a means, or instrument, toward achieving other social and economic ends. Examples of such benefi ts of the arts are enhanced learning and higher student test scores, more self-discipline, improved mental health, greater civic involvement, and various economic payoffs, such as income, employment, investment, and tax revenue.
But these instrumental benefi ts fail to capture the true value of the arts, according to the RAND team led by social scientist Kevin McCarthy. In fact, people fl ock to the arts not to improve their tests scores or to stimulate the economy but to reap the intrinsic benefi ts of the arts. And many of the intrinsic benefi ts have value not only for individuals but also for society as a whole.
Grounding their analysis in literature from several disciplines, the RAND team identifi ed three general categories of intrinsic benefi ts: (1) individual benefi ts, such as the captivation and pleasure that come from arts experiences and that motivate people to seek more such experiences; (2) individual benefi ts that also have spillover effects for society, such as cognitive growth in observing details, patterns, and relationships—and an expanded capacity for empathy with people of different backgrounds and cultures; and (3) public benefi ts, such as the creation of social bonds among those who share and discuss an artistic experience—and the expression of communal meaning.
These intrinsic benefi ts can be sustained and expanded only by strengthening the capacity of individuals to appreciate the arts, according to the RAND team. Therefore, policymakers should focus on building demand for the arts (by introducing more Americans to engaging arts experiences, especially when they are young) rather than focusing solely on expanding the supply of arts experiences (such as live theater, concerts, and museum exhibits).
Related Reading
Arts Education Partnerships: Lessons Learned from One School District’s Experience, 2004,
Melissa K. Rowe, Laura Werber Castaneda, Tessa Kaganoff , Abby Robyn, MG-222- EDU.
From Celluloid to Cyberspace: Th e Media Arts and the Changing Arts World, 2002, Kevin F.
McCarthy, Elizabeth Ondaatje, MR-1552-WF.
Gifts of the Muse: Reframing the Debate About the Benefi ts of the Arts, 2005, Kevin F.
McCarthy, Elizabeth H. Ondaatje, Laura Zakaras, Arthur Brooks, MG-218-WF.
A New Framework for Building Participation in the Arts, 2001, Kevin F. McCarthy, Kimberly
Jinnett, MR-1323-WRDF.
Th e Performing Arts in a New Era, 2001, Kevin F. McCarthy, Arthur Brooks, Julia Lowell,
Laura Zakaras, MR-1367-PCT.
State Arts Agencies 1965–2003: Whose Interests to Serve? 2004, Julia F. Lowell,
MG-121-WF.
From the Delphi Technique to an Arts Critique
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H E N R Y W I L L I S A N D D A V I D O R T I Z
Henry Willis (right) is an associate policy researcher whose research interests include risk assessment, risk communication, and decision analysis. He has applied these methods to allocation of counterterrorism resources, the health risks of beryllium exposures, threats to adolescent welfare, evaluation of federal investments in research and development, and the ranking of ecological risks. David Ortiz (left) is an associate engineer who specializes in mathematical modeling, simulation, and numerical optimization in support of policy. His current interests are energy and space policy, including assessments of energy infrastructure and supply vulnerability, and civilian space strategy.
In 1953, in response to Soviet belligerence, RAND com-pleted vital projects on the defense of the United States against air attack. In 2004, in response to terrorist bel-ligerence, RAND completed vital projects on the defense of the United States and its allies against sea attack.
Our efforts on behalf of maritime security in 2004 fo-cused on averting terrorist threats both to homeland se-curity in general and to seaports and global commerce in particular. We conducted the work on behalf of the U.S. Coast Guard and the global container shipping industry.
In the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Coast Guard was placed within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and was asked to perform expanded homeland defense duties and other maritime responsibilities in addition to its traditional missions. But to fulfi ll all of these responsibilities, the Coast Guard will have to accelerate and expand its modernization plans, according to a RAND team led by physicist John Birkler (see Table 1).
The RAND team proposed a dual strategy: The Coast Guard should (1) accelerate and expand the acquisi-tion of modernized cutters, aircraft, helicopters, and unmanned air vehicles, and (2) identify and explore new technologies and platform options, such as stationary offshore platforms, that could leverage the capabilities of the newly acquired surface and air vehicles.
In a study of the global container shipping industry, a separate RAND team found that the U.S. government should take a stronger role in developing a strategy to prepare the container shipping industry for terrorist attacks and to help the industry recover quickly if attacks occur.
During an age of increased terrorist threats, the ability of the global container supply chain to deliver goods effi ciently and securely relies on more than just the tra-ditional requirements for cheap and timely deliveries. In
addition, cargo must be declared appropriately to trade and other governmental offi cials. Cargo must also be inspected to minimize smuggling, entry of illegal immigrants, and the use of containers as a means for terrorist attack. Efforts to secure U.S. ports must address all of these priorities.
The RAND report, by Henry Willis and David Ortiz, recommends that the public and private sectors work together on security measures to address the vulner-abilities on global supply routes. Examples of such measures are (1) tamper-evident seals on shipping containers and (2) radio frequency identifi cation devices that monitor ships along their routes. Finally, research and development should focus on improving remote sensing and scanning capabilities to monitor high volumes of shipping traffi c. Current technologies are time-consuming, can be inaccurate, and can potentially be circumvented.
Related Reading
Evaluating the Security of the Global Containerized Supply Chain, 2004, Henry H. Willis,
David S. Ortiz, TR-214-RC.
“Seacurity”: Improving the Security of the Global Sea-Container Shipping System, 2003,
Maarten van de Voort, Kevin A. O’Brien, MR-1695- JRC.
Th e U.S. Coast Guard’s Deepwater Force Modernization Plan: Can It Be Accelerated? Will It Meet Changing Security Needs? 2004, John Birkler, Brien Alkire, Robert Button, Gordon Lee,
Raj Raman, John Schank, Carl Stephens, MG-114-USCG.
From Air Defense to Sea Defense
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Asset
Number
In Original Deepwater
Plan*
Needed to Meet 60%
of Total Demands
Needed to Meet 80%
of Total Demands
Needed to Meet 100%
of Total Demands
National Security Cutter 8 26 35 44
Offshore Patrol Cutter 25 28 37 46
Fast Response Cutter 58 54 72 90
Maritime Patrol Aircraft 35 24 29 35
High Altitude Endurance Unmanned Air Vehicle 7 13 17 25
Vertical Recovery System 34 33 33 33
Multimission Cutter Helicopter 93 112 126 139
Vertical Unmanned Air Vehicle 69 75 99 123
SOURCE: The U.S. Coast Guard’s Deepwater Force Modernization Plan, 2004.
* The original Deepwater plan—short for the Integrated Deepwater System Program—is the U.S. Coast Guard modernization plan that began in 1998.
TABLE 1—To Fulfi ll Both Its Traditional Missions and Emerging Responsibilities, the Coast Guard Will Need Many More Assets Than Originally Planned
Our pioneering work in the fi eld of public health com-menced in 1971 with the Health Insurance Experiment, a 15-year study of the rates at which families utilized alternative health insurance plans. In 2004, we con-tinued our pioneering tradition in the fi eld of public health by sparking a lively national discussion about the nationwide obesity epidemic and the mounting threat it poses to the nation’s health care system and public health insurance programs.
Our work in this fi eld also linked some obesity-related chronic health conditions to suburban sprawl. Thus, we extended the salience of our work in health care to the fi eld of urban planning.
RAND economists Roland Sturm and Darius Lakdawalla and their teams documented both the disturbing spread of the obesity epidemic over the past 20 years among all U.S. demographic groups and the alarming health and fi nancial consequences. Obesity and its attendant disorders—particularly diabetes, arthritis, and back problems—appear to be associated with steadily rising disability levels nationwide. By the year 2020, one in fi ve health care dollars for those between the ages of 50 and 69 could be consumed by treating only the conse-quences of obesity, up from less than one in ten dollars for this age group in 1985.
In one hopeful fi nding, RAND analysts Ashlesha Datar and Roland Sturm found that modest increases in physi-cal education instruction in kindergarten of just one hour per week could reduce the number of overweight fi ve- and six-year-old girls nationally by as much as 10 percent. Providing every child in kindergarten and fi rst grade with fi ve hours of such instruction per week—close to the level recommended—could cut both the number of overweight girls in those two grades by 43 percent and the number of such girls at risk of being overweight by 60 percent.
One factor that contributes to obesity is a sedentary lifestyle, which can be exacerbated by suburban sprawl
that is friendly to cars but hostile to walking and biking. Roland Sturm and Deborah Cohen found that people who live in areas with a high degree of suburban sprawl are more likely to report one or more of 16 chronic health conditions, including arthritis and diabetes, than people who live in less sprawling areas (see Figure 1). If future research confi rms these initial results, then policies that shape a healthier built environment could play a critical role in preventing obesity as well as a wide variety of chronic diseases.
Related Reading
“Are the Young Becoming More Disabled? Rates of Disability Appear to Be on the Rise
Among People Ages Eighteen to Fifty-Nine, Fueled by a Growing Obesity Epidemic,” Health Aff airs, Vol. 23, No. 1, January/February 2004, pp. 168–176, Darius N. Lakdawalla, Jayanta
Bhattacharya, Dana P. Goldman.
“Th e Economics of Physical Activity: Societal Trends and Rationales for Interventions,”
American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Vol. 27, No. 3, October 2004, pp. 126–135, Roland
Sturm.
“Th e Eff ects of Obesity, Smoking, and Drinking on Medical Problems and Costs,” Health Aff airs, Vol. 21, No. 2, March/April 2002, pp. 245–253, Roland Sturm. Also available as
RAND/RP-1003.
“Increases in Clinically Severe Obesity in the United States, 1986–2000,” Archives of Internal Medicine, Vol. 163, No. 18, October 13, 2003, pp. 2146–2148, Roland Sturm.
“Increasing Obesity Rates and Disability Trends: If It Continues at Its Current Rate, Rising
Obesity Could Wipe Out Recent Improvements in Disability Among Older Americans,”
Health Aff airs, Vol. 23, No. 2, March/April 2004, pp. 199–205, Roland Sturm, Jeanne S.
Ringel, Tatiana Andreyeva.
“Physical Education in Elementary School and Body Mass Index: Evidence from the
Early Childhood Longitudinal Study,” American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 94, No. 9,
September 2004, pp. 1501–1506, Ashlesha Datar, Roland Sturm.
“Suburban Sprawl and Physical and Mental Health,” Public Health, Vol. 118, No. 7, October
2004, pp. 488–496, Roland Sturm, Deborah A. Cohen.
From Health Plans to Healthy Planning
A S H L E S H A D A T A R A N D R O L A N D S T U R M
In 2004, Ashlesha Datar and Roland Sturm wrote articles that were published in Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, the American Journal of Public Health, and (with Jennifer Magnabosco) Obesity Research. Dr. Datar, an associate economist whose research interests include child care, child health, and early childhood education, holds a Ph.D. in policy analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Dr. Sturm is a senior economist whose recent work has focused on the economics of healthy living; health care costs of poor health habits; changes of mental health and substance abuse services under managed care; and effects of the parity legislation for behavioral health care. He has testifi ed on health care issues in Congress and several state legislatures.
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FIGURE 1—The Greater the Sprawl, the Greater the Number of Chronic Health Conditions
SOURCE: “Suburban Sprawl and Physical and Mental Health,” 2004.
Less Suburban Sprawl
Number of Chronic Health
Conditions Reported Per 1,000 Adults
More Suburban Sprawl
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1,500
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Examples ofMetropolitan Areas
Atlanta Seattle-Bellevue-Everett
San Francisco
B E T H A S C H A N D J A M E S H O S E K
Beth Asch is a senior economist whose areas of study include labor economics and defense manpower. She has led numerous studies on compensation design in the military and in the federal civil service, and on military recruiting and personnel supply to the armed forces. Her research has been widely disseminated as reports, briefi ngs, and journal articles among the policy community, the media, and the academic community. Jim Hosek is editor-in-chief of the RAND Journal of Economics and professor of economics at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. In recent years, he has examined the structure of military compensation, personnel quality, information technology personnel, and the impact of peacetime operations on promotion and retention.
RAND found in 1977 that the move to an all-volunteer military force in 1973 had succeeded in attracting a socially representative mix of the desired quantity and quality of recruits at a cost substantially lower than had been commonly assumed. The work confi rmed RAND’s leadership in military personnel research and led to decades of subsequent work in this area.
Nearly 30 years later, two teams of RAND researchers proposed how the U.S. military might derive greater capability, accountability, and creativity from its personnel. In the fi rst study, Margaret Harrell, Harry Thie, and their team found that senior military offi cers spend much less time in their high-level assignments and retire much earlier than do their private-sector counterparts. Thus, the rapidly revolving door of military leadership could be depriving the services of higher degrees of effectiveness and accountability.
At the most senior levels in the military, four-star offi cers average only 3.5 years there before they retire (and that might include more than one assignment at that rank). In contrast, chief executive offi cers in the private sector typically spend 8.4 years in their positions. Furthermore, nearly 90 percent of four-star offi cers retire before reaching age 60, compared with only about a third of their private-sector peers (see Figure 2).
Military leaders have worried that lengthening the careers of senior offi cers would clog the system and thus delay promotions throughout the offi cer corps. But Harrell and her team found that lengthening the assignments of many of the highest-ranking military positions to four years would enhance stability and accountability without unreasonably stifl ing any promotion opportunity.
In the second study, Beth Asch and James Hosek found that the entire military personnel and compensation system must begin to place a higher value on
innovation, intelligent risk-taking, and entrepreneurship. The system must also begin to produce greater variation in career paths. These changes are crucial for military transformation—or for developing the kinds of personnel capabilities that will be needed to defend the United States against a spectrum of unknown or uncertain threats, ranging from weapons of mass destruction to attacks on information systems.
Asch and Hosek recommend four ways for military commanders to update the personnel system: (1) Place greater emphasis on innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship in performance appraisals; (2) grant awards to innovators; (3) allow service members more choice in duty and job assignments; and (4) offer service members performance-based pay raises without promotions. These measures would help military commanders to build the kind of force required for military transformation.
Related Reading
Aligning the Stars: Improvements to General and Flag Offi cer Management, 2004, Margaret C.
Harrell, Harry J. Th ie, Peter Schirmer, Kevin Brancato, MR-1712-OSD.
Looking to the Future: What Does Transformation Mean for Military Manpower and Personnel Policy? 2004, Beth Asch, James R. Hosek, OP-108-OSD.
From a Volunteer Force to an Entrepreneur Force
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FIGURE 2—Generals and Admirals Have Shorter Tenures and Retire Younger than CEOs
SOURCES: O-10 data from Directorate for Information Operations and Reports (Washington Headquarters Service), General and Flag Offi cer Database, combined with Defense Manpower Data Center and Joint Duty Assignment Management Information System databases. CEO data based on a study of CEO turnover between 1971 and 1994 (“Why CEOs Fall: The Causes and Consequences of Turnover at the Top,” Strategy & Business, Third Quarter, 2002,Chuck Lucier, Eric Spiegel, Rob Schuyt) and a study of CEOs in regulated and unregulated fi rms (“Chief Executive Offi cer Careers in Regulated Environments: Evidence from Electric and Gas Utilities,” Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 45, October 2002, pp. 535–563, Charles J. Hadlock, Scott Lee, Robert Parrino). CEO data in fi gure are for unregulated fi rms from the latter study and are similar to data in the former.
NOTE: O-10 rank signifi es admiral in the U.S. Navy and general in the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, and U.S. Marine Corps.
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Lloyd Dixon is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation with expertise in resource and environmental economics and policy. In addition to his recent research on compensation to victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, he has focused on such topics as California’s strategies for reducing air pollution; the economic consequences of water-supply reductions; Southern California’s cleanup programs for the ocean, rivers, and creeks; the legal and other transaction costs of the federal Superfund cleanup program; and the effects of extending emission-system warranties on the auto-repair industry and on the role of expert evidence in the courts.
In a 1988 landmark study of air crash litigation in the United States, RAND described the characteristics of the decedents and compiled data on the economic losses suffered by survivors, the compensation paid, and the costs of litigation. In 2004, we built on this expertise, fi rst by examining the impact of medical malpractice reform legislation and then by giving the nation an accounting of the payouts made in response to the ter-rorist attacks of September 2001.
RAND researcher Nicholas Pace and his colleagues assessed the impact on jury awards of California’s Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act of 1975. The law “caps” the amount that a malpractice plaintiff can recover at trial to $250,000 for noneconomic dam-ages—pain, suffering, emotional distress, and mental anguish—but does not cap the amount for economic damages, such as the costs of medical care and lost wages. The law also limits the fees that plaintiffs’ at-torneys can collect, based on a sliding scale that reduces the allowable percentage paid to attorneys as the size of any trial award or settlement grows.
The law has had intended and unintended effects. It has reduced the aggregate amount of jury awards by 30 percent, skimming the net recoveries for plaintiffs by 15 percent while slashing the net recoveries for attorneys by 60 percent. But the law has had dramati-cally different effects on different types of cases. For example, the net recoveries for some plaintiffs have actually increased, especially for plaintiffs with initially modest awards for noneconomic damages. In contrast, the net recoveries for plaintiffs in death cases and the most serious nonfatal injury cases have often decreased, sometimes sharply.
Also in 2004, the RAND team of Lloyd Dixon and Rachel Kaganoff Stern compiled national data on the amount of compensation paid to the victims of the 9/11 terrorist
attacks. The team calculated that businesses and indi-viduals received a total of $38 billion from three sources of compensation: the insurance industry, government agencies, and charitable organizations.
The insurance industry paid more than half of the benefi ts ($19.6 billion), with a predominant share of insurance payouts going to businesses in New York City. Government agencies paid more than 40 percent of the benefi ts, with large shares set aside for civilians killed or seriously injured and for businesses. Charitable organizations paid 7 percent of the total benefi ts (see Figure 3).
There is no guarantee that a similar mix of resources will be available for victims of future terrorist attacks. More-over, the RAND analysts warn, there is no consensus in the public policy community about the appropriate and respective roles that should be played by government, the insurance industry, charities, and the legal system.
Related Reading
Capping Non-Economic Awards in Medical Malpractice Trials: California Jury Verdicts Under MICRA, 2004, Nicholas M. Pace, Daniela Golinelli, Laura Zakaras, MG-234-ICJ.
Compensation for Losses from the 9/11 Attacks, 2004, Lloyd Dixon, Rachel Kaganoff Stern,
MG-264-ICJ.
“Forty Years of Civil Jury Verdicts,” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, March
2004, pp. 1–25, Seth A. Seabury, Nicholas M. Pace, Robert T. Reville.
From Air Crash Litigation to Terrorism Compensation
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FIGURE 3—Most Benefi ts Paid to Victims of 9/11 Attacks Came from Insurance Companies
SOURCE: Compensation for Losses from the 9/11 Attacks, 2004.
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D O N A L D S T E V E N S
Donald Stevens is a senior engineer who led the 2004 study examining short-term options for improving security at LAX. Other recent projects include examining the military force posture overseas and the role of the military in fi ghting terrorism. For the Quadrennial Defense Review, he is leading a study that examines the risks in the force structure. He has written numerous books including The Requirements and Affordability of the Joint Strike Fighter and United States Air and Space Power in the 21st Century.
In the 1970s and 1980s, RAND analyzed the motives and capabilities of potential adversaries of U.S. nuclear programs and suggested a strategy, later employed by the U.S. Department of Energy, to safeguard nuclear facilities from terrorist attacks and other forms of sabo-tage. In 2004, we continued to identify the components of the civilian infrastructure that are most vulnerable to terrorism and to propose ways to mitigate the vulner-abilities.
For example, a RAND team led by Donald Stevens found the most cost-effective ways to reduce the impact of a potential terrorist attack at Los Angeles International Airport, believed to be one of the country’s prime ter-rorist targets. The RAND team examined a number of plausible attack scenarios and concluded that various kinds of potential bomb attacks present the greatest and most plausible risks (see Figure 4). The major threats include bombs placed on airplanes—either as cargo or by an insider who plants a bomb without board-ing—and bombs placed in vehicles or in luggage around the airport.
Given the scenarios, the most cost-effective short-term option for protecting the traveling public is simply to add more employees to check luggage. That would expedite passenger check-in and Transportation Security Administration screening, thereby reducing the number of travelers gathered in a tightly confi ned area. In fact, increasing the number of check-in and screening workers by just 5 percent could reduce fatalities by 80 percent if terrorists detonated a luggage bomb in a check-in area.
In addition to reducing the density of crowds in the terminals, it would be cost-effective to add a permanent vehicle checkpoint program to spot vehicles that might
be carrying large bombs. A vehicle screening system might eventually include scales embedded in the road-way to quickly weigh all vehicles entering the airport, al-lowing offi cials to identify those that might be weighed down with explosives.
Beyond these two security measures that would ad-dress vulnerabilities at a relatively low cost, four other measures should be considered for improving airport se-curity. Two would address major vulnerabilities but are relatively expensive: screening all cargo transported in passenger planes and improving the employee selection and clearance procedures. The other two measures—improving perimeter fencing and improving the airport’s rapid-response capability—would address less serious vulnerabilities but could be implemented at low cost.
Related Reading
Th e Benefi ts of Positive Passenger Profi ling on Baggage Screening Requirements, 2004, Russell
Shaver, Michael Kennedy, DB-411-RC.
How Much Is Enough? Sizing the Deployment of Baggage Screening Equipment by Considering the Economic Cost of Passenger Delays, 2004, Russell Shaver, Michael Kennedy, Chad Shirley,
Paul Dreyer, DB-410-RC.
How Much Is Enough? Sizing the Deployment of Baggage Screening Equipment to Minimize the Cost of Flying: Executive Summary, 2004, Russell Shaver, Michael Kennedy, Chad Shirley,
Paul Dreyer, DB-412-RC.
Near-Term Options for Improving Security at Los Angeles International Airport, 2004, Donald
Stevens, Terry Schell, Th omas Hamilton, Richard Mesic, Michael Scott Brown, Edward
Wei-Min Chan, Mel Eisman, Eric V. Larson, Marvin Schaff er, Bruce Newsome, John
Gibson, Elwyn Harris, DB-468-1-LAWA.
From Nuclear Plant Security to Airport Security
FIGURE 4—Potential Bomb Attacks Pose the Greatest Risks to Security at Los Angeles International Airport
SOURCE: Near-Term Options for Improving Security at Los Angeles International Airport, 2004.NOTE: MANPADS = man-portable air defense system (also known as shoulder-fi red surface-to-air missile).
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Insider Planted BombUninspected Cargo Bomb
Large Truck BombLuggage Bomb
Curbside Car BombPublic Grounds AttackAir Operations Attack
MANPADs AttackControl Tower Bomb
Sniper AttackMortar Attack
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The late Thomas Glennan was an architect of RAND’s fi rst education work in the late 1960s. His research spanned a wide variety of policy planning issues in such diverse areas as education, manpower training, energy, environmental enforcement, demonstration program management in health and human services, and military research and development. In 1971, he published one of the classic pieces of work (with Burton H. Klein and Gustave H. Shubert) in the area of weapon acquisition strategy that examined the role of prototypes. His father, T. Keith Glennan, was a member of the RAND Board of Trustees and the fi rst of three generations to serve RAND. His son Stuart was a member of the research staff in the late 1980s.
In 1975, RAND evaluated an array of “top-down” federal educational programs and concluded that many of them had undergone signifi cant adaptation at local sites. The study helped launch an area of research on the importance of implementation in improving the performance of students in America’s public schools.
In 2004, a RAND team led by Thomas Glennan and Susan Bodilly completed an analysis of 15 educational reforms and the efforts involved in taking them “to scale”—that is, replicating the reforms at many sites. Central to the analysis was a concept of scale-up that emphasized not just spreading to more sites but also enhancing implementation at the school and classroom level, sustaining the new practices over time, and shifting ownership of the reforms from developers to educators.
Developers of the reforms have made some progress toward improving teaching and learning, with several reforms demonstrating measurable gains in student performance in multiple schools or districts. Some of the efforts have focused on teachers, some on schools, and some on clusters of schools. But two common lessons have emerged for future efforts at widespread and last-ing educational reform.
First, no matter the target of reform or its design, the scale-up process is necessarily iterative and complex and requires the support of multiple actors. Key to success is rejecting a one-way replication model in favor of an interactive model that requires coordination among developers, district offi cials, school leaders, and teachers. The interactive model implies give-and-take, reciprocal learning, and mutual adaptation.
Second, if scale-up is to succeed according to the cri-teria defi ned by the RAND authors, the actors involved must jointly address a set of known, interconnected tasks, especially the alignment of school policies and infrastructure to sustain the reform effort. The infrastructural requirements are more than textbooks and technologies. Of noteworthy importance is a human-resource infrastructure—encompassing profes-sional development, hiring and retention policies, and performance incentives—that can ensure an adequate supply of teachers and administrators with the skills needed to sustain reform.
In both cases, all actors must take ownership of the effort. According to the RAND team, the faddism prevalent in public education improvement strate-gies is testimony to the fact that a shift in ownership seldom takes place. Without this shift, developers must permanently subsidize the reform efforts, a relation-ship that cannot be, and has not been, sustained over the long haul.
Related Reading
Challenges and Potential of a Collaborative Approach to Education Reform, 2004, Susan J.
Bodilly, Joan Chun, Gina Ikemoto, Sue Stockly, MG-216-FF.
Expanding the Reach of Education Reforms: Perspectives from Leaders in the Scale-Up of Educational Interventions, 2004, Th omas K. Glennan, Jr., Susan J. Bodilly, Jolene R.
Galegher, Kerri A. Kerr, MG-248-FF.
From Educational Reforms to Scaling Th em Up
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A N G E L R A B A S A
Angel Rabasa is a senior policy analyst whose research interests include regional security, Colombia, Latin America, South East Asia, Indonesia, and Malaysia. He is coauthor of The Role of Southeast Asia in U.S. Strategy Toward China; Indonesia’s Transformation and the Stability of Southeast Asia; and Colombian Labyrinth: The Synergy of Drugs and Insurgency and Its Implications for Regional Stability. Before coming to RAND in 1999, Dr. Rabasa served as Deputy Director, Offi ce of Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, and Singapore Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.
RAND pioneered the fi eld of Soviet Studies in 1950 and has since pursued regional studies that focus on Russia, Europe, Asia, Eurasia, and the Middle East. In 2004, we broadened the scope of our regional studies by examin-ing how Muslim religious trends extend far beyond any single geographic region and affect regions differently.
Because of the tectonic events of the past four years—from the 9/11 attacks to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq—the United States needs to craft a new strategy toward the entire Muslim world, according to RAND analyst Angel Rabasa and his team. They outlined such a strategy by sketching a “religio-political map” of the ideological orientations across the Muslim world, by charting critical cleavages among Muslims, and by trac-ing the roots of Islamic radicalism.
The team proposed that the United States consider a variety of social, political, and military options to ameliorate the conditions that produce Islamic radical-ism. Socially, the United States could support moderate Islamic networks in opposition to radical networks, use psychological operations for disrupting radical networks, deny radical networks their fi nancial resources, foster madrassa and mosque reform, and expand economic opportunities, particularly for the young.
Politically, the United States could support secular and moderate Muslim organizations that are working for democracy and human rights, encourage other Islamic groups to participate in the democratic political process, and engage international Muslim organizations in re-sponding to humanitarian crises.
Militarily, the United States could rebuild close military ties with key countries, notably Pakistan and Indone-sia, two of the most important countries in the Mus-lim world. The United States also needs to assert a different type of military presence in sensitive regions, reducing U.S. visibility as an “occupying power” and increasing its capabilities in areas such as civil affairs (offering medical assistance) and cultural intelligence (deploying more linguists and regional specialists).
In all of its dealings with the Muslim world, the United States should demonstrate that its efforts are in-tended not to strengthen authoritarian or oppressive regimes but rather to promote democratic change. Fundamental to such efforts is differentiating among the Muslim religious and political currents according to several criteria, such as overarching ideology, politi-cal and legal orientation, preferred form of govern-ment, attitude toward human rights, social agenda, links to terrorism, and propensity for violence. Based on these distinctions, U.S. policymakers can choose suitable partners for promoting democratic change in the Muslim world.
Related Reading
“A Chance to Overcome Religious Divisions,” Th e San Diego Union-Tribune, May 27,
2004, Rollie Lal.
Civil Democratic Islam: Partners, Resources, and Strategies, 2003, Cheryl Benard, MR-
1716-CMEPP.
“French Tussle over Muslim Head Scarf Is Positive Push for Women’s Rights,” Christian Science Monitor, January 5, 2004, Cheryl Benard.
Th e Muslim World After 9/11, 2004, Angel M. Rabasa, Cheryl Benard, Peter Chalk, C.
Christine Fair, Th eodore Karasik, Rollie Lal, Ian Lesser, David Th aler, MG-246-AF.
From Regional Studies to Religio-Political Studies
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The Ye ar in R ev iewRAND’s mission calls for us to communicate our research to key decisionmakers and the public.
Each year, in addition to the numerous briefi ngs and other research products, we publish hundreds
of books, reports, and articles to enrich and shape the public debate about major issues of
importance. Regular updates on our projects and results are posted at www.rand.org.
CHILD POLICY
Selected Publications“Acceptability of Asking Parents of Traumatized Children About the Children’s Symptoms,” Psychiatric Services, Vol. 55, No. 8 [Datapoints], August 2004, p. 866, K. L. Dean, B. D. Stein, L. H. Jaycox, S. H. Kataoka, M. Wong.
“Access and Quality in Child Health Services: Voltage Drops Whether Access Is Ap-proached Incrementally or Comprehensively, Children Will Not Fully Realize the Benefi ts Until Quality Is Addressed,” Health Affairs, Vol. 23, No. 5, September/October 2004, pp. 77–87, P. J. Chung, M. A. Schuster.
Are L.A.’s Children Ready for School? San-draluz Lara-Cinisomo, Anne R. Pebley, Mary E. Vaiana, Elizabeth Maggio, MG-145-FFLA.
“Childhood Overweight and Academic Performance: National Study of Kindergart-ners and First-Graders,” Obesity Research, Vol. 12, No. 1, January 2004, pp. 58–68, Ashlesha Datar, Roland Sturm, Jennifer L. Magnabosco.
“Indirect vs. Direct Hospital Quality Indica-tors for Very Low-Birth-Weight Infants,” Journal of the American Medical Associa-tion, Vol. 291, No. 2, January 14, 2004, pp. 202–209, J. A. Rogowski, J. D. Horbar, D. O. Staiger, M. Kenny, J. Carpenter, J. Geppert.
“Measuring Health Status and Quality of Life for U.S. Children: Relationship to Race, Ethnicity, and Income Status,” Ambulatory Pediatrics, Vol. 4, No. 4, July/August 2004, pp. 377–386, L. M. Olson, M. Lara, M. Pat Frintner.
“Physical Education in Elementary School and Body Mass Index: Evidence from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study,” American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 94, No. 9, September 2004, pp. 1501–1506, A. Datar, R. Sturm.
“Watching Sex on TV Predicts Adolescent Initiation of Sexual Behavior,” Pediatrics [Electronic], Vol. 114, No. 3, September 2004, pp. e280–e289, R. L. Collins, M. N. Elliott, S. H. Berry, D. E. Kanouse, D. Kunkel, S. B. Hunter, A. Miu.
2004 MilestonesAs part of its Initiative for Middle East Youth, the RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy (CMEPP) helped develop a specially adapted version of Sesame Street to be shown in schools and other settings in Afghanistan.
CIVIL JUSTICE
Selected PublicationsAssessment of 24-Hour Care Options for California, Donna O. Farley, Michael Green-berg, Christopher Nelson, Seth Seabury, MG-280-ICJ.
Capping Non-Economic Awards in Medical Malpractice Trials: California Jury Verdicts Under MICRA, Nicholas M. Pace, Daniela Golinelli, Laura Zakaras, MG-234-ICJ.
Compensation for Losses from the 9/11 Attacks, Lloyd Dixon, Rachel Kaganoff Stern, MG-264-ICJ.
“Forty Years of Civil Jury Verdicts,” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, March 2004, pp. 1–25, Seth A. Seabury, Nicholas M. Pace, Robert T. Reville.
Issues and Options for Government Intervention in the Market for Terrorism Insurance, Lloyd Dixon, John Arlington, Stephen Carroll, Darius Lakdawalla, Robert Reville, David Adamson, OP-135-ICJ.
2004 MilestonesA RAND Institute for Civil Justice (ICJ) evaluation of California’s permanent disability rating system led to signifi cant reform of California’s workers’ compensa-tion system.
The ICJ launched the Kauffman-RAND Center for the Study of Small Business and Regulation, which will study the way legal and regulatory policymaking affects small businesses and entrepreneurship. The Center will endeavor to assess and improve legal and regulatory policymaking as it relates specifi cally to small businesses and entrepreneurship in a wide range of settings, including corporate gover-nance, employment law, consumer law, securities regulation, and business ethics.
RAND and LRN, the nation’s leading provider of legal, compliance, ethics management, and corporate governance services, established the LRN-RAND Center for Corporate Ethics, Law and Governance to study ways businesses can best conduct operations ethically, legally, and profi tably at the same time.
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EDUCATION
Selected PublicationsAchieving State and National Literacy Goals, a Long Uphill Road: A Report to Carnegie Corporation of New York, Jennifer Sloan Mc-Combs, Sheila Nataraj Kirby, Heather Barney, Hilary Darilek, Scarlett Magee, TR-180-EDU.
Arts Education Partnerships: Lessons Learned from One School District’s Experience, Melissa K. Rowe, Laura Werber Castaneda, Tessa Kaganoff, Abby Robyn, MG-222-EDU.
Challenges and Potential of a Collaborative Approach to Education Reform, Susan J. Bodilly, Joan Chun, Gina Ikemoto, Sue Stockly, MG-216-FF.
Efforts to Improve the Quality of Vocational Education in Secondary Schools: Impact of Federal and State Policies, Cathleen Stasz, Susan J. Bodilly, MR-1655-USDE.
Expanding the Reach of Education Reforms: Perspectives from Leaders in the Scale-Up of Educational Interventions, Thomas K. Glen-nan, Jr., Susan J. Bodilly, Jolene R. Galegher, Kerri A. Kerr, MG-248-FF.
External Audiences for Test-Based Account-ability: The Perspectives of Journalists and Foundations, Laura Hamilton, Brian Stecher, OP-111-FF.
Focus on the Wonder Years: Challenges Facing the American Middle School, Jaana Juvonen, Vi-Nhuan Le, Tessa Kaganoff, Catherine Augustine, Louay Constant, MG-139-EDU.
Organizational Improvement and Account-ability: Lessons for Education from Other Sectors, Brian Stecher, Sheila Nataraj Kirby, eds., MG-136-WFHF.
Reforming Teacher Education: A First-Year Prog-ress Report on Teachers for a New Era, Sheila Nataraj Kirby, Jennifer Sloan McCombs, Scott Naftel, Heather Barney, Hilary Darilek, Frederick Doolittle, Joseph Cordes, TR-149-EDU.
A Review of the Research Literature on Teacher Recruitment and Retention, Cas-sandra Guarino, Lucrecia Santibañez, Glenn Daley, Dominic Brewer, TR-164-EDU.
When Computers Go to School: How Kent School Implements Information Technology to Enrich Teaching and Learning, Phillip D. Devin, TR-126-EDU.
2004 MilestonesRAND, Educational Testing Service, and CTB/McGraw-Hill have cooperated with the Evaluation Institute to develop the world’s fi rst standardized tests in Arabic.
Implementation of many education reforms based on RAND recommendations began at Qatar University, which has embarked on a comprehensive reform effort to strengthen its key governance and management processes.
The RAND Council for Aid to Education released the results of its annual Voluntary Support of Education survey, showing that contributions to colleges and universi-ties in the United States remained stable in 2003.
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
Selected Publications“Demand-Side Management and Energy Effi ciency in the United States,” Energy Jour-nal, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2004, David Loughran, Jonathan Kulich.
Estimating the Benefi ts of the GridWise Initiative: Phase 1 Report, Walter S. Baer, Brent Fulton, Sergej Mahnovski, TR-160-PNNL.
The Future of Genetically Modifi ed Crops: Lessons from the Green Revolution, Felicia Wu, William P. Butz, MG-161-RC.
Long Range Energy R&D: A Methodology for Program Development and Evaluation, James T. Bartis, TR-112-NETL.
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Selected Publications“Are the Young Becoming More Disabled? Rates of Disability Appear to Be on the Rise Among People Ages Eighteen to Fifty-Nine, Fueled by a Growing Obesity Epidemic,” Health Affairs, Vol. 23, No. 1, January/February 2004, pp. 168–176, D. N. Lakdawalla, J. Bhattacharya, D. P. Goldman.
“Comparison of Quality of Care for Patients in the Veterans Health Administration and Patients in a National Sample,” Annals of Internal Medicine, Vol. 141, No. 12, December 21, 2004, pp. 938–945, Steven M. Asch, Eliza-beth A. McGlynn, Mary M. Hogan, Rodney A. Hayward, Paul Shekelle, Lisa Rubenstein, Joan Keesey, John Adams, Eve A. Kerr.
“Detection and Management of Falls and Instability in Vulnerable Elders by Community Physicians,” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Vol. 52, No. 9, September 2004, pp. 1527–1531, Laurence Z. Rubenstein, David H. Solomon, Carol P. Roth, Roy T. Young, Paul G. Shekelle, John T. Chang, Catherine H. MacLean, Caren J. Kamberg, Debra Saliba, Neil S. Wenger.
“Differences in Medicare Expenditures During the Last Three Years of Life,” Journal of General Internal Medicine, Vol. 19, No. 2, February 19, 2004, pp. 127–135, L. R. Shugarman, D. E. Campbell, C. E. Bird, J. Gabel, T. A. Louis, J. Lynn.
“Disputes Over Coverage of Emergency Department Services: A Study of Two Health Maintenance Organizations,” Annals of Emergency Medicine, Vol. 32, No. 2, February 2004, pp. 155–162, C. R. Gresenz, D. M. Studdert.
“Do the Effects of Quality Improvement for Depression Care Differ for Men and Women? Results of a Group-Level Randomized Controlled Trial,” Medical Care, Vol. 42, No. 12, December 2004, pp. 1186–1193, C. D. Sherbourne, R. Weiss, N. Duan, C. E. Bird, K. B. Wells.
“The Economics of Physical Activity: Societal Trends and Rationales for Interventions,” Ameri-can Journal of Preventive Medicine, Vol. 27, No. 3, October 2004, pp. 126–135, Roland Sturm.
Evaluation of the Low Back Pain Practice Guideline Implementation in the Army Medi-cal Department, Donna O. Farley, Georges Vernez, Will Nicholas, Elaine S. Quiter, George J. Dydek, Suzanne Pieklik, Shan Cretin, MR-1758-A.
“Five-Year Impact of Quality Improvement for Depression: Results of a Group-Level Randomized Controlled Trial,” Archives of General Psychiatry, Vol. 61, No. 4, April 2004, pp. 378–386, K. Wells, C. Sherbourne, M. Schoenbaum, S. Ettner, N. Duan, J. Miranda, J. Unützer, L. Rubenstein.
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“Increasing Obesity Rates and Disability Trends: If It Continues at Its Current Rate, Rising Obesity Could Wipe Out Recent Improvements in Disability Among Older Americans,” Health Affairs, Vol. 23, No. 2, March/April 2004, pp. 199–205, Roland Sturm, Jeanne S. Ringel, Tatiana Andreyeva.
“Medicare Program Costs Associated with Hospice Use,” Annals of Internal Medicine, Vol. 140, No. 4, February 17, 2004, pp. 269–277, D. E. Campbell, J. Lynn, T. A. Louis, L. R. Shugarman.
“Pharmacy Benefi ts and the Use of Drugs by the Chronically Ill,” Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 291, No. 19, May 18, 2004, pp. 2344–2350, D. P. Goldman, G. F. Joyce, J. J. Escarce, J. E. Pace, M. D. Solomon, M. Laouri, P. B. Landsman, S. M. Teutsch.
“Profi ling the Quality of Care in Twelve Communities: Results from the CQI Study,” Health Affairs, Vol. 23, No. 3, May/June 2004, pp. 247–256, E. A. Kerr, E. A. McGlynn, J. Adams, J. Keesey, S. M. Asch.
Public Health Preparedness in California: Lessons Learned from Seven Health Jurisdictions, Nicole Lurie, R. Burciaga Valdez, Jeffrey Wasserman, Michael Stoto, Sarah Myers, Roger Molander, Steven Asch, B. David Mussington, Vanessa Solomon, TR-181.
“The Quality of Pharmacologic Care for Vul-nerable Older Patients,” Annals of Internal Medicine, Vol. 140, No. 8, May 4, 2004, pp. 714–720, T. Higashi, P. G. Shekelle, D. H. Solomon, E. L. Knight, C. Roth, J. T. Chang, C. J. Kamberg, C. H. MacLean, R. T. Young, J. Adams, D. B. Reuben, J. Avorn, N. S. Wenger.
“Suburban Sprawl and Physical and Mental Health,” Public Health, Vol. 118, No. 7, October 2004, pp. 488–496, Roland Sturm, Deborah A. Cohen.
2004 MilestonesRAND Health interviewed a diverse sample of individuals from Capitol Hill and from the Brentwood postal facility, including Hill staffers who were either directly or potentially indirectly exposed to the letter containing anthrax that was sent to Senator Tom Daschle’s offi ce in 2001. The results
highlighted the need to provide clear, accurate information on an ongoing basis during a public health emergency and to integrate private physicians into the public health response.
Humana Inc. became the fi rst health benefi ts company to test the Quality Assessment Tools—software that scans and analyzes health claims data—developed by RAND Health to ascertain whether consumers are receiving appropriate care.
RAND Health began the third phase of its ACOVE study (Assessing Care of Vulner-able Elders), which will expand upon the quality-of-care measurements developed by RAND in conjunction with Pfi zer.
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Selected PublicationsAid During Confl ict: Interaction Between Military and Civilian Assistance Providers in Afghanistan, September 2001–June 2002, Olga Oliker, Richard Kauzlarich, James Dobbins, Kurt W. Basseuner, Donald L. Sampler, John G. McGinn, Michael J. Dziedzic, Adam Grissom, Bruce Pirnie, Nora Bensahel, A. Istar Guven, MG-212-OSD.
Ambivalent Allies? A Study of South Korean Attitudes Toward the United States, Eric V. Larson, Norman D. Levin, Seonhae Baik, Bogdan Savych, TR-141-SRF.
Cuba After Castro: Legacies, Challenges, and Impediments, Edward Gonzalez, Kevin F. McCarthy, MG-111-RC.
Do the Ties Still Bind? The U.S.-ROK Security Relationship After 9/11, Norman D. Levin, MG-115-AF/KF.
The Future Security Environment in the Middle East: Confl ict, Stability, and Political Change, Nora Bensahel, Daniel L. Byman, eds., MR-1640-AF.
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Iraq, Bruce Hoffman, OP-127-IPC/CMEPP.
The Lessons of the Asian and Latin American Financial Crises for Chinese Bond Markets, William H. Overholt, OP-117-CAPP.
The Muslim World After 9/11, Angel M. Rabasa, Cheryl Benard, Peter Chalk, C. Christine Fair, Theodore Karasik, Rollie Lal, Ian Lesser, David Thaler, MG-246-AF.
Must All Join? America, 1788; Europe, 2004, James Thomson, OP-136-RC.
Public Diplomacy: How to Think About and Improve It, Charles Wolf, Jr., Brian Rosen, OP-134-RC.
Shanghaied? The Economic and Political Implications of the Flow of Information Technology and Investment Across the Taiwan Strait, Michael S. Chase, Kevin L. Pollpeter, James C. Mulvenon, TR-133.
The United States, Europe, and the Wider Middle East, Shahram Chubin, Bruce Hoffman, William Rosenau, CF-210-GCSP/CMEPP.
U.S.-China Security Management: Assessing the Military-to-Military Relationship, Kevin Pollpeter, MG-143-AF.
TestimonyAnalyzing China’s Defense Industries and the Implications for Chinese Military Modernization, Evan S. Medeiros, CT-217.
A Fresh Start for Haiti? Charting Future U.S. Haitian Relations, James Dobbins, CT-219.
Hong Kong at the Crossroads, William H. Overholt, CT-228.
The Hong Kong Legislative Election of September 12, 2004: Assessment and Implications, William H. Overholt, CT-232-1.
U.S. Policy Toward Southeast Europe: Unfi nished Business in the Balkans, James Dobbins, CT-230-1.
2004 MilestonesRAND projects in Qatar now include work on information technology, a national health care strategy, the environment, pub-lic infrastructure, quality-of-life monitoring, effective governance, long-range planning, quality improvement and innovation, and military strategy and operations.
RAND continues its analytical support to the Iraqi Reconstruction Management Offi ce, an element of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. On-the-ground support included participa-tion in the development of the national counterterrorism strategy, disarmament and integration of the military into the Iraq police, and building the defense ministry’s capabilities.
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Based on recommendations made by RAND, the Bush administration created a new interagency unit, housed in the State Department, dedicated to providing institutional continuity to future American nation-building operations.
NATIONAL SECURITY
Selected PublicationsAir Force Procurement Workforce Trans-formation: Lessons from the Commercial Sector, John Ausink, Laura H. Baldwin, Christopher Paul, MG-214-AF.
Aligning the Stars: Improvements to General and Flag Offi cer Management, Margaret C. Harrell, Harry J. Thie, Peter Schirmer, Kevin Brancato, MR-1712-OSD.
Assuring Access in Key Strategic Regions: Toward a Long-Term Strategy, Eric V. Larson, Derek Eaton, Paul Elrick, Theodore Karasik, Robert Klein, Sherrill Lingel, Brian Nich-iporuk, Robert Uy, John Zavadil, MG-112-A.
Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) and Organizational Restructuring in the DoD: Implications for Education and Training Infrastructure, Dina G. Levy, Joy S. Moini, Tessa Kaganoff, Edward G. Keating, Cath-erine H. Augustine, Tora K. Bikson, Kristin Leuschner, Susan M. Gates, MG-153-OSD.
Communications Networks to Support Integrated Intelligence, Surveillance, Recon-naissance, and Strike Operation, Elham Ghashghai, TR-159-AF.
The Effects of Equipment Age on Mission-Critical Failure Rates: A Study of M1 Tanks, Eric Peltz, Lisa Colabella, Brian Williams, Patricia M. Boren, MR-1789-A.
Examining the Army’s Future Warrior: Force-on-Force Simulation of Candidate Technolo-gies, Randall Steeb, John Matsumura, Paul Steinberg, Tom Herbert, Phyllis Kantar, Patrick Bogue, MG-140-A.
Expanding Enlisted Lateral Entry: Options and Feasibility, Dina Levy, Joy Moini, Jennifer Sharp, Harry J. Thie, MG-134-OSD.
Information Sharing Among Military Headquarters: The Effects on Decision-making, Walter L. Perry, James Moffat, MG-226-UK.
Intern Programs as a Human Resources Management Tool for the Department of Defense, Susan M. Gates, Christopher Paul, MG-138-OSD.
Lessons from the North: Canada’s Privatiza-tion of Military Ammunition Production, W. Michael Hix, Bruce Held, Ellen M. Pint, MG-169-OSD.
Looking to the Future: What Does Trans-formation Mean for Military Manpower and Personnel Policy? Beth Asch, James R. Hosek, OP-108-OSD.
Modeling the Departure of Military Pilots from the Services, Marc N. Elliott, Kanika Kapur, Carole Roan Gresenz, MR-1327-OSD.
Network-Based Operations for the Swedish Defence Forces: An Assessment Methodology, Walter Perry, John Gordon IV, Michael Boito, Gina Kingston, TR-119-FOI.
Organizational Concepts for Purchasing and Supply Management Implementation, Lynne M. Leftwich, James A. Leftwich, Nancy Y. Moore, C. Robert Roll, Jr., MG-116-AF.
Past and Future: Insights for Reserve Component Use, Harry J. Thie, Raymond E. Conley, Henry A. Leonard, Megan Abbott, Eric V. Larson, K. Scott McMahon, Michael G. Shanley, Ronald E. Sortor, William Taylor, Stephen Dalzell, Roland J. Yardley, TR-140-OSD.
Policy and Methodology to Incorporate War-time Plans into Total U.S. Air Force Manpower Requirements, Manuel J. Carrillo, Hugh G. Massey, Joseph G. Bolten, TR-144-AF.
Policy Options for Military Recruiting in the College Market: Results from a National Sur-vey, Beth Asch, Can Du, Matthias Schonlau, MG-105-OSD.
Portfolio Analysis and Management for Naval Research and Development, Richard Silberglitt, Lance Sherry, Carolyn Wong, Michael Tseng, Emile Ettedgui, Aaron Watts, Geoffrey Stothard, MG-271-NAVY.
Reporters on the Battlefi eld: The Embedded Press System in Historical Context, Christo-pher Paul, James J. Kim, MG-200-RC.
Stretching the Network: Using Transformed Forces in Demanding Contingencies Other Than War, David C. Gompert, Hans Pung, Kevin A. O’Brien, Jeffrey Peterson, OP-109-RC.
Supporting Air and Space Expeditionary Forces: Analysis of Maintenance Forward Support Location Operations, Amanda Geller, David George, Robert S. Tripp, Mahyar A. Amouzegar, C. Robert Roll, Jr., MG-151-AF.
Supporting Air and Space Expeditionary Forces: Lessons from Operation Enduring Freedom, Robert S. Tripp, Kristin F. Lynch, John G. Drew, Edward W. Chan, MR-1819-AF.
Supporting Air and Space Expeditionary Forces: Lessons from Operation Iraqi Freedom, Kristin F. Lynch, John G. Drew, Robert S. Tripp, C. Robert Roll, Jr., MG-193-AF.
Supporting Air and Space Expeditionary Forces: A Methodology for Determining Air Force Deployment Requirements, Don Snyder, Patrick Mills, MG-176-AF.
Survivability Options for Maneuver and Transport Aircraft: Analytic Support to the Army Science Board, John Matsumura, Randall Steeb, Blake Crowe, Nicholas Dienna, Yuna Huh, Gary Quintero, William Sollfrey, MG-123-A.
Test and Evaluation Trends and Costs for Aircraft and Guided Weapons, Bernard Fox, Michael Boito, John C. Graser, Obaid Younossi, MG-109-AF.
Unexploded Ordnance: A Critical Review of Risk Assessment Methods, Jacque-line McDonald, Debra Knopman, J.R. Lockwood, Gary Cecchine, Henry H. Willis, MR-1674-A.
U.S. Army Security Cooperation: Toward Improved Planning and Management, Thomas S. Szayna, Adam Grissom, Jef-ferson P. Marquis, Thomas-Durell Young, Brian Rosen, Yuna Huh, MG-165-A.
The U.S. Coast Guard’s Deepwater Force Modernization Plan: Can It Be Acceler-ated? Will It Meet Changing Security Needs? John Birkler, Brien Alkire, Robert Button, Gordon Lee, Raj Raman, John Schank, Carl Stephens, MG-114-USCG.
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TestimonyDeveloping and Using General and Flag Offi cers, Harry J. Thie, CT-221.
Deployment, Retention, and Compensation, James Hosek, CT-222.
Toward an Expeditionary Army: New Options for Combatant Commanders, Eric Peltz, CT-223.
2004 MilestonesRAND Project AIR FORCE research helped the Air Force explore its options for replacing the AC-130 gunship platform. The next-generation gunship needs to be much more survivable; to operate over longer distances and over remote, hostile areas; and to be able to attack stationary or moving ground targets with precision. The Air Force asked PAF to conduct an analysis of alternatives (AoA) to identify the most cost-effective options for providing these capabilities.
A study conducted in the RAND National Se-curity Research Division has played a central role in the National Security Agency’s sweep-ing efforts to reshape its business practices.
The RAND Arroyo Center analyzed Operation Iraqi Freedom logistics support and identifi ed the problem areas, resulting in much faster, more reliable service for units in Iraq and reduced burdens on the forces in theater.
POPULATION AND AGING
Selected PublicationsAssimilating Immigrants: Why America Can and France Cannot, Robert A. Levine, OP-132-RC.
“Changes in American Opinion About Family Planning,” Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 35, No. 3, September 2004, Clifford A. Grammich, Julie DaVanzo, Kate Stewart.
“Incentives and Exit Routes to Retirement in the Netherlands,” in Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise (eds.), Social Security and Retirement Around the World: Micro-Estimation, The University of Chicago Press, pp. 461–498, A. Kapteyn and K. de Vos.
Indonesian Living Standards Before and After the Financial Crisis: Evidence from the Indonesia Family Life Survey, John Strauss, Kathleen Beegle, Agus Dwiyanto,
Yulia Herawati, Daan Pattinasarany, Elan Satriawan, Bondan Sikoki, Sukamdi, Firman Witoelar, MG-137.
An Investigation of the Factors Infl uencing Breastfeeding Patterns, Alison Jacknowitz, RGSD-182.
Low Fertility and Population Ageing: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Options, Jonathan Grant, Stijn Hoorens, Suja Sivadasan, Mirjam van het Loo, Julie DaVanzo, Lauren Hale, Shawna Gibson, William Butz, MG-206-EC.
“The Myth of Worksharing,” Labour Eco-nomics, Vol. 11, pp. 293–313, A. Kapteyn, A. Kalwij, A. Zaidi.
“Self-Employment Among Older U.S. Work-ers,” Monthly Labor Review, July 2004, Lynn A. Karoly, Julie Zissimopoulos.
“Self-Employment and the 50+ Population,” Lynn A. Karoly, Julie Zissimopoulos, AARP Public Policy Institute Issue Paper, March 2004.
“Trends in Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality in Developing Countries: The Case of Child Survival in São Paulo, Brazil,” Demography, Vol. 41, No. 3, August 2004, Narayan Sastry.
The 21st Century at Work: Forces Shaping the Future Workforce and Workplace in the United States, Lynn A. Karoly, Constantijn W. A. Panis, MG-164-DOL.
“Urbanization, Development, and Under-Five Mortality Differentials by Place of Residence in São Paulo, Brazil, 1970–1991,” Demographic Research, Special Collection 2, Article 14, April 2004, Narayan Sastry.
2004 MilestonesRAND Labor and Population’s Center for the Study of Aging received multimillion-dollar funding ($7.3 million) from the National Institute on Aging to do research on the economic and health determinants of retirement.
Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, a project within RAND Labor and Population, began wave 2 (Socioeconomic and Ethnic Disparities in Adult Health) with funding from the National Institute on Aging and the National Institute on Child Health and Human Development ($10.6 million combined).
PUBLIC SAFETY
Selected Publications“Analysis of Oakland Stop and Search Data,” chapter 9 in Promoting Cooperative Strategies to Reduce Racial Profi ling: A Technical Guide, Oakland Police Department, April 2004.
The Benefi ts of Positive Passenger Profi ling on Baggage Screening Requirements, Rus-sell Shaver, Michael Kennedy, DB-411-RC.
Emergency Responder Injuries and Fatalities: An Analysis of Surveillance Data, Ari N. Houser, Brian A. Jackson, James T. Bartis, D. J. Peterson, TR-100-NIOSH.
Evaluating the Security of the Global Containerized Supply Chain, Henry H. Willis, David S. Ortiz, TR-214-RC.
How Much Is Enough? Sizing the Deploy-ment of Baggage Screening Equipment by Considering the Economic Cost of Passenger Delays, Russell Shaver, Michael Kennedy, Chad Shirley, Paul Dreyer, DB-410-RC.
Near-Term Options for Improving Security at Los Angeles International Airport, Donald Stevens, Terry Schell, Thomas Hamilton, Richard Mesic, Michael Scott Brown, Edward Wei-Min Chan, Mel Eisman, Eric V. Larson, Marvin Schaffer, Bruce Newsome, John Gibson, Elwyn Harris, DB-468-1-LAWA.
Protecting Emergency Responders, Volume 3: Safety Management in Disaster and Terrorism Response, Brian A. Jackson, John C. Baker, M. Susan Ridgely, James T. Bartis, Herbert I. Linn, MG-170-NIOSH.
2004 MilestonesRAND Infrastructure, Safety, and Environ-ment signed a memorandum of understand-ing with Northwestern University Center for Public Safety to collaboratively develop research pertaining to law enforcement and transportation safety.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Selected PublicationsAttracting the Best: How the Military Com-petes for Information Technology Personnel, James R. Hosek, Michael G. Mattock, C. Christine Fair, Jennifer Kavanagh, Jennifer Sharp, Mark Totten, MG-108-OSD.
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Challenges in Virtual Collaboration: Videoconferencing, Audioconferencing, and Computer-Mediated Communications, Lynne Wainfan, Paul K. Davis, MG-273.
Collecting the Dots: Problem Formulation and Solution Elements, Martin C. Libicki, Shari Lawrence Pfl eeger, OP-103-RC.
Exploring Information Superiority: A Methodology for Measuring the Quality of Information and Its Impact on Shared Awareness, Walter Perry, David Signori, John Boon, MR-1467-OSD.
Framework for Quantifying Uncertainty in Electric Ship Design, Isaac Porche, Henry Willis, Martin Ruszkowski, DB-407-ONR.
Future Army Bandwidth Needs and Capabilities, Leland Joe, Isaac Porche III, MG-156-A.
High-Technology Manufacturing and U.S. Competitiveness, Charles Kelley, Mark Wang, Gordon Bitko, Michael Chase, Aaron Kofner, Julia Lowell, James Mulvenon, David Ortiz, Kevin Pollpeter, TR-136-OSTP.
Understanding the Insider Threat: Proceedings of a March 2004 Workshop, Richard C. Brackney, Robert H. Anderson, CF-196-ARDA.
The U.S. Scientifi c and Technical Workforce: Improving Data for Decisionmaking, Terrence K. Kelly, William P. Butz, Stephen Carroll, David M. Adamson, Gabrielle Bloom, eds., CF-194-OSTP/SF.
Vital Assets: Federal Investment in Research and Development at the Nation’s Universi-ties and Colleges, Donna Fossum, Lawrence S. Painter, Elisa Eiseman, Emile Ettedgui, David M. Adamson, MR-1824-NSF.
Will the Scientifi c and Technology Work-force Meet the Requirements of the Federal Government? William P. Butz, Terrence K. Kelly, David M. Adamson, Gabrielle A. Bloom, Donna Fossum, Mihal E. Gross, MG-118-OSTP.
Wind Tunnel and Propulsion Test Facilities: An Assessment of NASA’s Capabilities to Serve National Needs, Philip S. Antón, Eugene C. Gritton, Richard Mesic, Paul Steinberg, MG-178-NASA/OSD.
TestimonyIdentifying Federally Funded Research and Development on Information Technology, Donna Fossum, CT-229-1.
Strengthening Research & Development for Wind Hazard Mitigation, Charles Meade, CT-215.
2004 MilestonesResearchers from RAND Europe have completed a yearlong “foresight” project for the UK government to explore the application and implications of next-generation information technologies in such areas as identity and authenticity, surveillance, system robustness, security, and information assurance.
SUBSTANCE ABUSE
Selected Publications“Antecedents and Outcomes of Marijuana Use Initiation During Adolescence,” Preven-tive Medicine, Vol. 39, No. 5, November 2004, pp. 976–984, P. L. Ellickson, J. S. Tucker, D. J. Klein, H. Saner.
Cannabis Policy, Implementation and Outcomes, Mirjam van het Loo, Stijn Hoo-rens, Christian van’t Hof, James P. Kahan, MR-1805-VWS.
“Developmental Trajectories of Cigarette Smoking and Their Correlates from Early Adolescence to Young Adulthood,” Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Vol. 72, No. 3, June 2004, pp. 400–410, M. Orlando, J. S. Tucker, P. L. Ellickson, D. J. Klein.
“Effectiveness of Community-Based Treat-ment for Substance-Abusing Adolescents: 12-Month Outcomes of Youths Entering Phoenix Academy or Alternative Probation Dispositions,” Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, Vol. 18, No. 3, September 2004, pp. 257–268, A. R. Morral, D. F. McCaffrey, G. Ridgeway.
“From Adolescence to Young Adulthood: Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Smoking,” American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 94, No. 2, February 2004, pp. 293–299, P. L. Ellickson, M. Orlando, J. S. Tucker, D. J. Klein.
Getting to Outcomes 2004: Promoting Ac-countability Through Methods and Tools for Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation, Matthew Chinman, Pamela Imm, Abraham Wandersman, TR-101-CDC.
“Marijuana Use from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: Multiple Developmental Tra-jectories and Their Associated Outcomes,” Health Psychology, Vol. 23, No. 3, May 2004, pp. 299–307, P. L. Ellickson, S. C. Martino, R. L. Collins.
“Sterile Syringe Access Conditions and Variations in HIV Risk Among Drug Injectors in Three Cities,” Addiction, Vol. 99, No. 9, September 2004, pp. 1136–1146, R. N. Bluthenthal, M. R. Malik, L. E. Grau, M. Singer, P. Marshall, R. Heimer for the Diffusion of Benefi t through Syringe Exchange Study Team.
Visies op Financiering van Ondersteuning bij Stoppen met roken [Perceptions on a Reimbursement Scheme for Quitting Smok-ing Support], Rebecca Hamer, Mirjam van het Loo, MR-1769-RE/CVZ.
TERRORISM & HOMELAND SECURITY
Selected PublicationsArmy Forces for Homeland Security, Lynn E. Davis, David E. Mosher, Richard R. Brennan, Michael D. Greenberg, K. Scott McMahon, Charles W. Yost, MG-221-A.
Confronting the “Enemy Within”: Security Intelligence, the Police, and Counterter-rorism in Four Democracies, Peter Chalk, William Rosenau, MG-100-RC.
Coordinating the War on Terrorism, Lynn E. Davis, Gregory F. Treverton, Daniel Byman, Sara Daly, William Rosenau, OP-110-RC.
The Counterterror Coalitions: Cooperation with Pakistan and India, C. Christine Fair, MG-141-AF.
The Dynamic Terrorist Threat: An Assess-ment of Group Motivations and Capabilities in a Changing World, Kim Cragin, Sara A. Daly, MR-1782-AF.
Gearing Up and Getting There: Improving Local Response to Chemical Terrorism, Brian K. Houghton, RGSD-181.
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Hitting America’s Soft Underbelly: The Potential Threat of Deliberate Biological At-tacks Against the U.S. Agricultural and Food Industry, Peter Chalk, MG-135-OSD.
Mapping the Risks: Assessing the Homeland Security Implications of Publicly Available Geospatial Information, John C. Baker, Beth E. Lachman, David R. Frelinger, Kevin M. O’Connell, Alexander C. Hou, Michael S. Tseng, David Orletsky, Charles Yost, MG-142-NGA.
The Offi ce of Science and Technology Policy Blue Ribbon Panel on the Threat of Biologi-cal Terrorism Directed Against Livestock, Terrence K. Kelly, Peter Chalk, James Bonomo, John Parachini, Brian A. Jackson, Gary Cecchine, CF-193-OSTP.
Out of the Ordinary: Finding Hidden Threats by Analyzing Unusual Behavior, John Hollywood, Diane Snyder, Kenneth McKay, John Boon, MG-126-RC.
“Terrorism and Business Continuity,” Kevin O’Brien, David Claridge, RAND Europe, Janusian Security Risk Management, The Financial Times, May 2004.
Triage for Civil Support: Using Military Medi-cal Assets to Respond to Terrorist Attacks, Gary Cecchine, Michael A. Wermuth, Roger C. Molander, K. Scott McMahon, Jesse Mal-kin, Jennifer Brower, John D. Woodward, Donna F. Barbisch, MG-217-OSD.
Urban Battle Fields of South Asia: Lessons Learned from Sri Lanka, India, and Pakistan, C. Christine Fair, MG-210-A.
What You Should Do to Prepare for and Respond to Chemical, Radiological, Nuclear, and Biological Terrorist Attacks: Pocket Edition Survival Guide, Lynn E. Davis, Tom LaTourrette, David Mosher, Lois Davis, David Howell, MR-1731/2-SF.
When Terrorism Hits Home: How Prepared Are State and Local Law Enforcement? Lois M. Davis, K. Jack Riley, Greg Ridgeway, Jennifer Pace, Sarah K. Cotton, Paul S. Steinberg, Kelly Damphousse, Brent L. Smith, MG-104-MIPT.
TestimonyCombating Terrorism: The 9/11 Commission Recommendations and the National Strategies, John V. Parachini, CT-231-1.
Empowering State and Local Emergency Preparedness: Recommendations of the Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction, Michael A. Wermuth, CT-216.
The Effect of Terrorist Attacks in Spain on Transatlantic Cooperation in the War on Terror, James Dobbins, CT-225.
Improving Terrorism Warnings: The Homeland Security System, Michael A. Wermuth, CT-220.
Terrorism and Rail Security, Jack Riley, CT-224.
Terrorism and the Security of Public Surface Transportation, Brian Michael Jenkins, CT-226.
2004 MilestonesA survey conducted by RAND Europe, in conjunction with Janusian Security Risk Management, highlighted the growing nature of the terrorist threat to business.
RAND hosted a conference in Washington, D.C., entitled Three Years After: Next Steps in the War on Terror. The conference was attended by more than 200 people, including current administration offi cials, military offi cers, congressional staff, foreign embassy representatives, members of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), the private sector, and the media. Par-ticipants heard six presentations by RAND researchers and a keynote address by the Deputy Secretary of Defense.
RAND National Security Research Division prepared a primer for law enforcement personnel that describes the logic behind suicide bombing, how others have coped, and the lessons they learned in the process.
TRANSPORTATION & INFRASTRUCTURE
Selected Publications“A Comparison of Car Ownership Models,” Transport Reviews, Vol. 24, No. 4, July 2004, pp. 379–408, G. De Jong, J. Fox, A. Daly, M. Pieters, R. Smit.
Europe, Competing: Market Prospects, Business Needs and Technological Trends for Virtual, Smart Organisations in Europe, Caroline Wagner, Maarten Botterman, Erik Feijen, Lars Schmidt, Steve Simmons, Christian van’t Hof, Jonas Svava Iverson, Leander van Laerhoven, MG-195-EC.
An Executive Perspective on Workforce Planning, Robert M. Emmerichs, Cheryl Y. Marcum, Albert A. Robbert, MR-1684/2-OSD.
Gifts of the Muse: Reframing the Debate About the Benefi ts of the Arts, Kevin F. McCarthy, Elizabeth H. Ondaatje, Laura Zakaras, Arthur Brooks, MG-218-WF.
Hoofdonderzoek naar de reistijdwaardering in het vervoer van goederen over de weg [Main Survey into the Value of Time in Freight Transport by Road], Gerard de Jong, Sjoerd Bakker, Marits Pieters, TR-110-AVV.
An Operational Process for Workforce Planning, Robert M. Emmerichs, Cheryl Y. Marcum, Albert A. Robbert, MR-1684/1-OSD.
Recent Large Service Acquisitions in the Department of Defense: Lessons for the Offi ce of the Secretary of Defense, Frank Camm, Irv Blickstein, Jose Venzor, MG-107-OSD.
Regionale luchthavens in Nederland: Een raamwerk voor het bepalen van het maatschappelijk belang van regionale luchthavens in Nederland [Regional Airports in the Netherlands: A Framework to Determine the Added Value of the Regional Airports in the Netherlands], Bouke Veld-man, Irma Graafl and-Essers, Abigail Lierens, Maarten van de Voort, TR-138-VROM.
The Shipbuilding and Force Structure Analysis Tool: A User’s Guide, Mark V. Arena, John F. Schank, Megan Abbott, MR-1743-NAVY.
State Arts Agencies 1965–2003: Whose Interests to Serve? Julia F. Lowell, MG-121-WF.
TestimonyStabilization and Reconstruction Civilian Management Act of 2004, James Dobbins, CT-218.
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Susan EveringhamDirector, International Programs
RAND Project AIR FORCE
Natalie CrawfordVice President and Director
Cynthia CookAssociate Director
Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School
Robert KlitgaardDean
Greg TrevertonAssociate Dean for Research
Other Corporate Research Activities
RAND Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition
James A. DewarDirector
RAND-Qatar Policy Institute
C. Richard NeuDirector
RAND Child Policy
Rebecca KilburnDirector
RAND Survey Research Group
Sandra BerrySenior Director
Julie BrownDirector
Washington Offi ce
Bruce HoffmanDirector
Pittsburgh Offi ce
Barry BalmatDirector
New York Offi ce
James HundleyDirector
Doha Offi ce
C. Richard NeuDirector
Management
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Funds from donors have enabled RAND to make the following contributions to society.
• Earlier in RAND’s history, we used funds from the RAND endowment to model the AIDS epidemic before it emerged on the public health radar screen.
• RAND helped underwrite research on preventing drug abuse and crime and supported analyses that illuminated the trade-offs between various policies—for example, the reduction in drug use resulting from treatment or imprisonment of addicts.
• The RAND endowment supported analyses of the economic progress of immigrants and the savings behavior of the elderly—work that is informing current debates on Social Security reform.
• RAND-sponsored work that synthesized three decades of research on the quality of health care helped put quality on the national policy agenda and shaped the discussion about how quality can be measured and improved.
• RAND funds built a database that profi les terrorist activities and modes of operating. Investigators draw upon this unique resource after terrorist incidents. In the process of building it, we established terrorism as a scholarly discipline and trained many current experts.
In 2004, donors enabled RAND to investigate and propose solutions for issues ranging from ending world hunger to improving homeland security. Some of the most recent contributions include the following examples.
• Designing a concept for a new computer network and database that could help the U.S. intelligence community “connect the dots” by quickly identifying and interpreting the clues of a possible terrorist attack.
• Proposing a new approach to conceptualizing and conducting public diplomacy, convincing foreign societies, especially those in the Muslim world, that the ideals such as pluralism, freedom, women’s rights, and democracy are fundamental human values that will resonate in their own countries.
• Comparing the Green Revolution with the current genetically modifi ed crop movement to assess not only the technological differences in the crops and agricultural methods of these two movements, but more generally to examine the economic, cultural, and political factors that infl uence whether a new agricultural technology is adopted and accepted by farmers, consumers, and governments.
• Finding ways to eliminate certain passengers as airline security risks through a ”registered traveler” program, thus making it possible to concentrate on screening the baggage of other passengers. And then, calculating the minimum cost to the nation’s economy of providing baggage scanning at all U.S. airports without affecting security.
In vest ing in Ide asPhilanthropic donations are a true testament to RAND’s enduring value as a charitable organization.
As a nonprofi t organization, RAND funds groundbreaking research and centers of excellence through
the generous contributions of individual donors, foundations, and corporations. These critical funds
allow RAND to address pressing global public policy issues confronting the world. The support RAND
receives from all of its donors is critical to ensuring that RAND’s contributions to policy in the next
half-century of public service can match those of the past 50 years.
Philanthropic donations are a true
testament to R AND’s enduring value as
a charitable organization.
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Bruce Karatz
Bruce Karatz serves as vice chairman on the Board of Trustees.
Bruce KaratzChairman and Chief Executive Offi cer, KB Home
Mr. Karatz is vice chairman of the RAND Corporation Board of Trustees. Mr. Karatz chaired the RAND Education Advisory Board for many years and more recently played a critical role in the development of RAND’s new headquarters, providing guidance, support, and expertise. “I know of no other organization with the depth and breadth of RAND’s research agenda,” says Mr. Karatz. “In a single year, RAND researchers can be looking at the quality of health care in America, reforming education in Qatar, adapting Sesame Street for the children in Afghanistan, and helping the Pentagon transform the military. I know my gift to RAND is a wise investment in improving my future, my children’s future, and the world’s future.”
“I know of no other organization with the depth and breadth of RAND’s research agenda. . . . I know my gift to RAND is a wise investment in improving my future, my children’s future, and the world’s future.”
Amy PascalChairman, Motion Picture Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Major donor Amy Pascal has been connected to RAND for many years. Since 1999, she has served on the RAND Corporation Board of Trustees, but her familiarity with RAND reaches back to her childhood. Her father, Anthony Pascal, was an economist at RAND for several decades.
“When many people hear ‘the RAND Corporation,’ they conjure up images of the Soviet Union or the Cold War. But that wasn’t the RAND that I grew up with,” says Ms. Pascal. “My father’s research was always on social welfare issues, such as education reform, housing, and racial discrimination. He was one of the fi rst economists to look at the cost of treating AIDS. That’s the RAND I know. So when I wanted to donate money to help make the world a better place, the fi rst organization that came to mind was one I know the best: RAND.”
”I feel so strongly about the contributions RAND has made to the world that I am helping to underwrite a documentary fi lm that will tell the RAND story.”
Amy Pascal’s generosity enabled her to dedicate an arbor in the new headquarters in honor of her father, Tony Pascal, a RAND researcher from 1958 to 1998.
“My father’s research was always onsocial welfare issues,such as education reform, housing, and racial discrimination. . . . Th at’s the RAND I know.”
Amy Pascal
Former Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci began his third (nonconsecutive) term on the Board of Trustees in 2000; his fi rst was in 1983. Carlucci Investigator Award recipient Rollie Lal has been working at RAND since 2002.
Frank Carlucci
Frank CarlucciChairman Emeritus, The Carlyle Group
Mr. Carlucci chairs the RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy Advisory Board and serves on the RAND Corporation Board of Trustees. Through his generous donation, RAND created the Carlucci Investigator Award. “My intent is to provide seed money to explore research in areas that are unexplored. I recognize that RAND’s clients need to fi nd solutions to current problems but we also need to take full advantage of the creativity and insightfulness of our researchers. This grant should help them do that.”
Rollie Lal, the most recent winner of the Carlucci Investigator Award, explored the working mechanisms of organized crime in South Asia and its infl uence on terrorist networks. She began by looking solely at India, but soon her research branched out to include all of South Asia.
“My intent is to provide seed money
to explore research in areas that are
unexplored.... We need to take full
advantage of the creativity and
insightfulness of our researchers.”
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PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE
By Invitation
Members of the Circle provide extraordinary service and financial support to RAND.
Hushang Ansary
Paul Baran
Peter S. Bing
Lloyd E. Cotsen
Thomas V. Jones
Charles N. Martin, Jr.
Frederick S. Pardee
Robin Renwick
James F. Rothenberg
Eleanor B. Sheldon
Joseph P. Sullivan
Ratan Tata
John L. Vogelstein
Paul A. Volcker
Alcoa Foundation
Allstate Insurance Company
The Chubb Corporation
ExxonMobil Corporation
The Ford Foundation
Kaiser Permanente
State Farm Insurance
VISIONARIES
$250,000 and above
Anonymous
Kip and Mary Ann Hagopian
Bruce Karatz
Paul H. and Nancy J. O’Neill
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
PNC Foundation
Sony Pictures Entertainment
GUARDIANS
$100,000–$249,999
Lovida H. Coleman, Jr.
Ann and Tom Korologos
James E. and Sharon C. Rohr
ACE USA
Alfa Group
American Re-Insurance Company
The Dow Chemical Company
General Motors Corporation
The Hauser Foundation
KB Home
Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation
Liberty Mutual Insurance Companies
Neotrade Partners
The Starr Foundation
Swiss Re America Holding Corp.
BENEFACTORS
$50,000–$99,999
Harold Brown
Frank C. and Marcia Carlucci
Po Chung
Arthur and Marylin Levitt
Peter Norton
Amy B. Pascal
Cindy and John S. Reed
Maxine and Eugene S. Rosenfeld
Association of Trial Lawyers of America
Farmers Insurance Group/Zurich U.S.
The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
Hartford Financial Services Group
Hepo Filters, LLC
International Council of Shopping Centers, Inc.
LRN
MassMutual Financial Group
The Merck Company Foundation
Pfizer Inc
The Real Estate Roundtable
The REBNY Foundation, Inc.
The SahanDaywi Foundation
LEADERS
$25,000–$49,999
Anonymous
Thomas Epley and Linnae Anderson
Robert Ferguson
Robert G. Funari
Ronald J. Gidwitz
Tone N. Grant
Karen Elliott House
Benny T. Hu
Ray R. Irani
Peter Kwok
Woong-Yeul Lee
Santiago Morales
Jane and Marc Nathanson
Younes Nazarian
Jane and Ronald L. Olson
Jean and Donald Tang
Stanley A. Weiss
Adamant Financial Corporation
AKB Probusiness Bank
Alcan, Inc.
Alcoa
Archer Daniels Midland Company
Association for the Defense of Investor’s Rights
Bank of Japan
Bank of Moscow
Base Element
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ChevronTexaco Corporation
City National Bank
Commercial Mortgage Securities Association
ESN Group
EvrazHolding
Far East National Bank
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International Launch Services
Investment Group Renaissance Capital
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KidsOhio
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Los Angeles Times
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Moscow Telecommunications Corporation
The NAREIT Foundation
Neftyanoi Concern
Novolipetsky Metallurgical Plant
PacifiCare Health Systems, Inc.
Refco Group, Ltd.
The Rohatyn Group
Severstal
Siguler Guff & Company
Lucille Ellis Simon Foundation
SUAL-Holding
Chung Ying Tang Foundation
Donors
i n v e s t i ng i n i de a s
The Tata Group
The UPS Foundation
Vash Finansovy Popechitel, AO
Vimpelcom
Volga Prom Gaz
Warburg Pincus
PATRONS
$10,000–$24,999
Corporations and foundations make annual gifts to RAND at the Patrons level and above.
Robert and Patricia Curvin
Roy Doumani
Ken Senjong Hsui
Suzanne Nora Johnson
Caroline and Seymour F. Kaufman
Michael B. Kim
Janet Crown Peterson
Enzo Viscusi
Lois and Gail L. Warden
Susan J. Way-Smith and Douglas J. Smith
Aegon USA, Inc.
Baraboo Growth, LLC
The Boeing Company
Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, Inc.
Capital Research and Management Company
Charter One Bank
The Family Connection Partnership, Inc.
The Feinberg Group, LLP
IBS Group Holding
The Robert and Ardis James Foundation
Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies
Liz Claiborne, Inc.
The McGraw-Hill Companies
Metropolitan Life Foundation
National Association of Realtors
The Rosenkranz Foundation
The San Francisco Foundation
State Farm Companies Foundation
Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc.
ASSOCIATES
$5,000–$9,999
Anonymous
Odeh F. Aburdene
Victor K. Atkins
Louis L. Borick
Nadine and Edward M. Carson
George N. Chammas
Natalie W. Crawford
Maxwell E. Greenberg
Pedro J. Greer, Jr.
Palmer G. Jackson
Paul G. Kaminski
Iao Katagiri
Eve M. Kurtin
John H. O. La Gatta
Ben Mathis
Gertrude G. Michelson
Wilma C. Mundie
Paul D. Rheingold
Donald B. and Susan F. Rice
Stanley M. Rumbough, Jr.
Alice and Raymond I. Skilling
Gerald J. Sullivan
Jean and Donald Tang
James A. Thomas
Theresa and Charles Wolf, Jr.
FRIENDS
$1,000–$4,999
Individuals make annual gifts to RAND at the Friends level and above.
Anonymous
Sherry and Barry Balmat
Norman Barker, Jr.
Mark Benjamin
Maurine Bernstein
Linda and Brent D. Bradley
Edmund D. Brunner, Jr.
Jean and Waldo H. Burnside
Jacqueline and Andrew I. Caster
Jane and Louis M. Castruccio
Margery A. Colloff
Richard P. Cooley
Gordon B. Crary
Richard J. and Mildred Cross
Brownlee Currey
Eugene J. Ellis
Paul G. Flynn
James C. Gaither
William T. Golden
Lucille Goldsen
Debra Granfield and Michael D. Rich
James A. Greer, II
Susan G. and William M. Guttman
Ralph E. Hansmann
James D. Hodgson
Alan L. Hoffman
Leonard Horwin
Vicki Huth
Phyllis Kantar
Susan Koehler
Kenneth Krug and Andrea Scharf
Daniel D. Kusar
Philip Lader
Carol Lyden
Sue Mallett
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Glen T. Meakem
Norman Metcalfe
Steven Miller
Joel R. Mogy
Lloyd and Mary Morrisett
Thomas P. Mullaney
Frank S. Palatnick
Marie-Anne and Malcolm A. Palmatier
Donald E. Petersen
Robert L. Petkun
Patricia Salas Pineda
John Edward Porter
Murray Pepper and Vicki Reynolds Pepper
Paul G. Rogers
Louis Rowell
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Jacques H. Schraven
Brent Scowcroft
Donald W. Seldin
Nina and Ivan Selin
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Gunjit S. Sikand
H. Russell Smith
Robert Spinrad
Larry S. Stewart
Marjorie and Robert Templeton
Darlene and James A. Thomson
Marianne and Wesley Truitt
Heike and Ralph Turchiano
Barbara and Milton G. Weiner
John P. White
Bill Williams
James Q. Wilson
Paul S. Wise
Linda Tsao Yang
LEGACY CIRCLE
The following individuals have committed estate gifts to RAND.
Frank C. Carlucci
James A. Greer, II
Olaf Helmer
Bruce Karatz
G. G. Michelson
Newton N. Minow
Eleanor B. Sheldon
Willis Ware
Th e Pardee RAND Graduate School
With 54 professors and a student body of 91, the School enjoys one of the most favorable faculty-student ratios in higher education. Its student body is remarkable and remarkably diverse. Most students have already earned advanced degrees, ranging from doctorates in the sciences or in medicine to master’s degrees in a variety of disciplines. Graduates have gone to high-level positions in government, the private sector, academia, and nonprofi t groups. In all their diversity, its students have three things in common: passion, discipline, and intellectual power.
The School’s Ph.D. in policy analysis is designed to train creative thinkers to play important roles in solving major problems facing the nation and the world. Rigorous courses all operate as seminars, and students get the
opportunity to work alongside top RAND researchers on a broad range of projects as part of their on-the-job training. All students receive fellowships that pay for all tuition costs and health care, and a stipend based on the work they perform on RAND research projects.
Th e RAND Graduate Student Summer Associate Program
The Graduate Student Summer Associate Program is designed for students who have completed at least two years in a graduate program leading to a doctorate or other advanced degree. Each summer associate conducts independent research during the approximately 12 weeks that he or she spends at RAND assigned to a research project and mentored by a research staff member.
Educational Opportunities
The Pardee RAND
Graduate School (PRGS)
grants more Ph.D.’s in
public policy analysis
annually than any other
educational institution
in the United States.
Pictured: Assistant deans
Rachel Swanger (seated,
center) and Alex Duke
(seated, right) in the new
PRGS courtyard in Santa
Monica with PRGS fellows
(left to right) Hilary
Rhodes, Thomas Lang,
John Fei, and Sai Ma.
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In 2004, 28 summer associates from 20 different universities applied their skills to the analysis of a wide range of public policy problems.
A sample of summer associate research topics in 2004 includes
• an examination of advanced automotive engine technologies, particularly hybrid-electric vehicles
• a project that examined how terrorist attacks might affect oil supplies
• an education project on organizational responses to accountability in education and the impact of the No Child Left Behind Act
• the development of case studies pertaining to creating police forces in nation-building efforts, and initiatives to study and reduce violence
• a study of the social impacts of defense applications of nanotechnology
• a health study relating to the effectiveness and utility of syndromic surveillance in public health practice
Students are selected for associateships based on their interests and skills and their match with current RAND research projects. Several hundred individuals apply each year. In 2004, 12 of the associates worked in the Santa Monica Offi ce, 10 in the Washington Offi ce, and 6 in the Pittsburgh Offi ce.
Other Educational Opportunities
Several specialized pre- and postdoctoral programs are conducted under the auspices of individual research units. The programs offer formal and informal training and extensive collaboration with RAND researchers.
RAND Labor and Population offers the RAND Fellows in Population Studies and the Study of Aging program, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. The program enables outstanding junior scholars in demographic and aging research to sharpen their analytic skills, learn to communicate research results effectively, and advance their research agenda.
The program has also sponsored yearlong fellowships and shorter study visits for students and researchers from a number of developing countries, including Bangladesh, Cameroon, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, the Gambia, and the Philippines. Many of these students return to their countries to work in universities, government, or international agencies. For more than two decades, the program has offered these fellowships and study visits, supported by grants from the Agency for International Development, the Population Council, and the Hewlett Foundation.
• Participants in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), have the opportunity to involve themselves in RAND Health projects as part of their training. The program is designed to allow young physicians committed to clinical medicine to acquire new skills and training in the nonbiological sciences that are important to medical care systems. The program prepares physicians to act as health services research leaders and agents for change in diverse settings such as the community, federal and state governments, health care organizations, and academic departments. The program focuses on two priority areas: Improving the Care for America’s At-Risk Populations and Improving Quality of Care in a Changing Social and Economic Environment.
• RAND Health and the UCLA School of Public Health jointly sponsor a postdoctoral training program that offers training in health services research methods and policy analysis and research experience through ongoing research projects at RAND or UCLA.
• RAND Summer Institute (RSI) consists of two annual conferences that address critical issues facing our aging population: the MiniMedical School for Social Scientists and a workshop on Demography, Economics, and Epidemiology of Aging. The MiniMedical School, sponsored by the National Institute on Aging and the NIH Offi ce of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, is offered to non-medically trained scholars whose research relates to the aging process and the medical treatment of elderly.
Graduates have gone to high-level positions in government,
the private sector, academia, and nonprofit groups. In all
their diversity, its students have three things in common:
passion, discipline, and intellectual power.
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James A. Thomson (Chairman)President and CEO, RAND Corporation
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James A. ThomsonPresident and CEO, RAND Corporation
Nina HachigianDirector, RAND Center for Asia Pacifi c Policy
Susan EveringhamDirector of International Programs, RAND Corporation
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Odeh F. Aburdene
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Rebecka Belldegrun
Alexander L. CappelloChairman and CEO, Cappello Group Inc.
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A dv isory Boar dsRAND advisory boards enrich our research agenda by adding their experience, perspective, and expertise.
Interactions between a unit and its board vary, but advisory board members may advise on research
directions, comment on the relevancy and occasionally the quality of work, facilitate dissemination of
research results, provide fi nancial support, and assist with fund-raising from others.
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Lloyd E. CotsenPresident, Cotsen Management Corporation
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Guilford GlazerGuilford Glazer Associated Companies
Tone N. Grant
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Chairman Emeritus, The Aspen Institute; former Secretary of Labor
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Lewis M. Branscomb1972–1982*
William T. Coleman, Jr.1972–1975; 1977–1987
Michael Collins1979–1989
Richard P. Cooley1971–1981; 1982–1992
Harold J. Haynes1988–1989
Walter J. Humann1979–1989; 1990–2000
Walter E. Massey1983–1991; 1993
Michael M. May1972–1982; 1983–1993
G. G. Michelson1984–1994; 1995–1998
Newton N. Minow1965–1975; 1976–1986; 1987–1997
Walter F. Mondale1991–1993
J. Richard Munro1984–1994
Paul G. Rogers1979–1989
Henry S. Rowen1967–1972
Brent Scowcroft1984–1988; 1993–1997
Donald W. Seldin1975–1985; 1986–1993
Eleanor B. Sheldon1972–1982
Gustave H. Shubert1973–1989
Dennis Stanfi ll1978–1988
Frank Stanton1957–1967; 1968–1978
Charles H. Townes1965–1970
George H. Weyerhaeuser1975–1985
John P. White1973–1977
Charles Zwick1969–1979; 1980–1990; 1991–1999
Advisory Trustees
Peter S. Bing1988–1998; 1999–2002*
Frederick L. Anderson1959–1969
J. Paul Austin1971–1981
Robert F. Bacher1950–1960
Solomon J. Buchsbaum1982–1992
Frank R. Collbohm1948–1967
Mark W. Cresap, Jr.1960–1963
Charles Dollard1948–1961
Lee A. DuBridge1948–1961
Michael Ference, Jr.1963–1973
Ann F. Friedlaender1988–1992
H. Rowan Gaither, Jr.1948–1959; 1960–1961
James C. Gaither1984–1994; 1995–2000
Christopher B. Galvin1994–2000
Sam Ginn1997–1999
T. Keith Glennan1963–1974
J. Richard Goldstein1951–1973
W. Richard Goodwin1972–1982
Philip L. Graham1961–1963
Alan Greenspan1986–1987
Caryl P. Haskins1955–1965; 1966–1976
Lawrence J. Henderson, Jr.1948–1971
William R. Hewlett1962–1972
Carla A. Hills1983–1987
Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr.1955–1965; 1966–1976; 1977–1984
John A. Hutcheson1948–1959
Charles F. Knight1981–1986
Ernest O. Lawrence1956–1958
Alfred L. Loomis1948–1957
Edwin M. McMillan1959–1969
Soia Mentschikoff1972–1982
Philip M. Morse1948–1949; 1950–1962
Philip E. Mosely1951–1961; 1963–1972
Harvey S. Mudd1949–1955
Lauris A. Norstad1963–1973
Ronald L. Olson1994–2004
James A. Perkins1961–1971
Samuel R. Pierce, Jr.1976–1981
Thomas P. Pike1971–1976
Kenneth S. Pitzer1962–1972
Wesley W. Posvar1973–1983
Don K. Price1961–1971
Condoleezza Rice1991–1997
Donald H. Rumsfeld1977–1987; 1988–1998; 1999–2001
David A. Shephard1959–1963; 1965–1973
Kenneth I. Shine1993–2002
Frederick F. Stephan1948–1961
George D. Stoddard1948–1963
Julius A. Stratton1955–1965
George K. Tanham1971–1982
Charles Allen Thomas1959–1969
Paul A. Volcker1993–2000
William Webster1950–1960; 1961–1971
John F. Welch, Jr.1991–1992
Albert D. Wheelon1993-2001
Clyde E. Williams1948–1963
Walter B. Wriston1973–1983
Former Trustees
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Financial Report
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL POSITION
with summarized fi nancial information for the year ended September 28, 2003(in thousands) September 26, 2004 September 28, 2003
ASSETS Current assets Cash and cash equivalents $ 5,727 $ 8,681 Receivables Billed and unbilled costs and fees 39,824 32,837 Other receivables 5,979 3,661 Prepaid expenses and other current assets 4,267 6,473
Total current assets 55,797 51,652
Property and equipment Land 1,334 1,334 Buildings and improvements 213 183 Leasehold improvements 6,753 6,518 Equipment 33,498 28,505 Construction in progress 105,437 53,699
147,235 90,239 Less: Accumulated depreciation and amortization (25,542) (22,075)
Net property and equipment 121,693 68,164
Long-term investments 159,289 141,255 Building project fund investments 38,605 87,686 Other assets 11,983 9,988
Total assets $ 387,367 $ 358,745
LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS Current liabilities Accounts payable and other liabilities $ 33,755 $ 32,618 Unexpended portion of grants and contracts received 19,096 15,074 Accrued compensation and vacation 14,676 13,887
Total current liabilities 67,527 61,579
Accrued postretirement benefi t liability 11,471 11,148 Long-term debt 130,177 130,184
Total liabilities 209,175 202,911 Commitments and contingencies (Note 8) Net assets Unrestricted Operations 5,235 3,229 Designated for investment 122,602 116,094 Designated for special use 6,547 5,146
Total unrestricted 134,384 124,469 Temporarily restricted 13,182 11,883 Permanently restricted 30,626 19,482
Total net assets 178,192 155,834
Total liabilities and net assets $ 387,367 $ 358,745
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated fi nancial statements.
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF ACTIVITIES AND CHANGES IN NET ASSETS
with summarized fi nancial information for the year ended September 28, 2003(in thousands)
For the Years Ended
September 26, September 28, 2004 2003
Unrestricted Net Assets
Total Temporarily Permanently Operations Designated Unrestricted Restricted Restricted Total Total
REVENUES, GAINS, AND OTHER SUPPORT
Contracts and grants $ 208,305 $ — $ 208,305 $ — $ — $ 208,305 $ 194,333
Fees 9,478 — 9,478 — — 9,478 7,926
Income on investments, net — 2,938 2,938 491 — 3,429 3,783
Net realized gains on investments — 5,318 5,318 921 — 6,239 1,328
Net unrealized gains on investments — 3,265 3,265 631 — 3,896 9,671
Contributions 4,574 150 4,724 2,970 11,144 18,838 8,272
Other investment income 1,067 — 1,067 — — 1,067 1,886
Transfer of designated net assets to operations 3,762 (3,762) — — — — —
Net assets released from restrictions due to satisfaction of program restrictions 3,714 — 3,714 (3,714) — — —
Total revenues, gains, and other support 230,900 7,909 238,809 1,299 11,144 251,252 227,199
EXPENSES
Research 181,726 — 181,726 — — 181,726 174,218
Management and general 44,568 — 44,568 — — 44,568 41,049
Total expenses 226,294 — 226,294 — — 226,294 215,267
Change in net assets before other item 4,606 7,909 12,515 1,299 11,144 24,958 11,932
Other item—loss on sale of land (Note 8) (2,600) — (2,600) — — (2,600) —
Change in net assets after other item 2,006 7,909 9,915 1,299 11,144 22,358 11,932
Net assets at beginning of year 3,229 121,240 124,469 11,883 19,482 155,834 143,902
Net assets at end of year $ 5,235 $ 129,149 $ 134,384 $ 13,182 $ 30,626 $ 178,192 $ 155,834
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated fi nancial statements.
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
with summarized fi nancial information for the year ended September 28, 2003(in thousands) For the Year Ended For the Year Ended September 26, 2004 September 28, 2003Cash fl ows from operating activities:
Change in net assets $ 22,358 $ 11,932 Adjustments to reconcile change in net assets to net cash provided by operating activities: Adjustment to postretirement benefi t liability 323 169 Depreciation 4,404 4,260 Amortization 85 720 Loss on disposition of property and equipment — 102 Contributions restricted for purchase of property and equipment (378) — Permanently restricted contributions (8,220) (355) Net realized/unrealized gains (10,135) (10,999) Exchange gains (258) (720) Decrease (increase) in billed and unbilled costs and fees (6,987) 4,759 Decrease (increase) in other receivables (2,318) (1,399) Increase in prepaid expenses and other current assets 2,206 (1,085) (Increase) decrease in other long-term assets (2,087) 602 Increase in accounts payable and other liabilities 1,380 12,074 Increase (decrease) in unexpended portion of grants and contracts received 4,022 (3,521) Increase in accrued compensation, vacation, and retirement 789 520 Decrease in other liabilities — (697)
Net cash provided by operating activities 5,184 16,362
Cash fl ows from investing activities: Purchase of investments (97,253) (22,602) Proceeds from sale of investments 89,354 24,146 Purchases of building project fund investments 49,081 29,545 Purchases for construction in progress (53,112) (37,734) Purchases of property and equipment (4,821) (4,227)
Net cash used in investing activities (16,751) (10,872)
Cash fl ows from fi nancing activities: Contributions restricted for purchase of property and equipment 378 — Permanently restricted contributions 8,220 355 Net repayments under line-of-credit — (1,000) Payment of bond issue costs — (192)
Net cash provided by (used in) fi nancing activities 8,598 (837)
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash 15 220
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents (2,954) 4,873 Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year 8,681 3,808
Cash and cash equivalents at end of year $ 5,727 $ 8,681
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated fi nancial statements.
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
1. Corporate Organization: RAND Corporation (RAND) is a nonprofi t, tax-exempt corporation performing research and analysis funded by contracts, grants, and contributions. In addition, RAND conducts educational programs that provide graduate training.
The consolidated fi nancial statements of RAND include the accounts of two controlled affi liates: RAND Europe, a foundation domiciled in The Netherlands, and the Council for Aid to Education (CAE), a nonprofi t organi zation in New York. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
2. Summary of Signifi cant Accounting Policies:Fiscal Year. RAND’s fi scal reporting for both fi nancial statement and tax purposes is based on a 52- or 53-week year ending on the Sunday closest to September 30. The fi scal years include operations for 52-week periods in 2004 and 2003.
Basis of Presentation. The accompanying fi nancial statements have been prepared on the accrual basis of accounting in accordance with the American Institute of Certifi ed Public Accountants Audit and Accounting Guide, “Not-for-Profi t Organizations.”
Net assets are classifi ed into three categories according to donor-imposed restrictions, as follows:
Permanently restricted—Net assets subject to donor-imposed stipulations that neither expire by passage of time nor can be fulfi lled or otherwise removed by actions of RAND. Generally, the donors of these assets permit RAND to use all or part of the investment return on these assets.
Temporarily restricted—Net assets whose use by RAND is subject to donor-imposed stipulations that either expire by passage of time or can be fulfi lled and removed by actions of RAND.
Unrestricted—Net assets that are not subject to donor-imposed stipulations. Unrestricted assets may be designated for specifi c purposes by action of the Board of Trustees.
The fi nancial statements include certain prior-year summarized comparative information in total but not by net asset category. Such prior-year information does not include suffi cient detail to constitute a presentation in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Accordingly, such information should be read in conjunction with RAND’s fi nancial statements for the year ended September 28, 2003, from which the summarized fi nancial information was derived.
Use of Estimates. The preparation of fi nancial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the fi nancial statements. Estimates also affect the reported amount of revenues, expenses, or other changes in net assets during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from these estimates.
Revenue and Expense Recognition. Contract and grant revenues are recognized as the related services are performed in accordance with the terms of the contract or grant or using the percentage of completion method.
Contributions, including unconditional promises to give, are recognized as revenue in the period received and are reported as increases in the appropriate category of net assets. Donor-restricted contributions that are received and either spent or deemed spent within the same fi scal year are reported as unrestricted revenue.
Expenses are generally reported as decreases in unrestricted net assets. Expirations of donor-imposed stipulations or of board designa-tions that simultaneously increase one class of net assets and decrease another are reported as transfers between the applicable classes of net assets.
Concentrations of Risk. Cash and cash equivalents are maintained with several fi nancial institutions. Deposits held with banks may exceed the amount of insurance provided on such deposits. Generally, these deposits may be redeemed upon demand and are maintained with fi nancial institutions of reputable credit and therefore bear minimal credit risk.
RAND derived 72 percent of its research revenues in fi scal years 2004 and 2003 from contracts, grants, and fees with agencies of the federal government.
Cash and Cash Equivalents. RAND considers all highly liquid instruments purchased with a maturity of three months or less to be cash equivalents.
Property and Equipment. Property and equipment is stated at cost. Depreciation is computed by the straight-line method over the following estimated useful lives of the assets: 5 to 40 years for building and improvements and 3 to 20 years for equipment. Leasehold improvements are amortized by the straight-line method over the shorter of the estimated useful lives of the assets or the term of the lease. Construction in progress will be amortized over the estimated useful lives of the respective assets when they are ready for their intended use.
When assets are retired, the assets and related allowances for depreciation and amortization are eliminated from the accounts and any resulting gain or loss is refl ected in operations. As of September 26, 2004, and September 28, 2003, approximately $11,913,000 and $7,952,000, respectively, of fully depreciated assets were in use.
Investments. All investments of permanently restricted net assets and unrestricted net assets board designated for investment are pooled in a long-term investment fund. Income on pooled investments is allocated to the general use or individual special use funds based on the average balance for each fund (see Note 9).
The percentage of board-designated funds distributed for unrestricted use was 3.75 percent and 4.25 percent in fi scal years 2004 and 2003, respectively, based on the trailing twelve-quarter market value of the unrestricted funds.
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Gains and losses on investments and investment income are reported as increases or decreases in unrestricted net assets unless their use is restricted by explicit donor stipulation.
Building Project Fund Investments. The net proceeds from the tax-exempt bond issuance (see Note 7) have been invested under a collateralized fl exible draw investment agreement. The interest rate is based on the Bond Market Association Municipal Swap Index Rate plus sixty-fi ve (65) basis points. Other investment income includes interest earned of $1,042,000 and $1,866,000 on these investments in fi scal years 2004 and 2003, respectively. Withdrawals are made to fund the Santa Monica building project.
Bond Issuance Costs. Bond issuance costs represent expenses incurred in connection with issuing RAND’s revenue bonds (see Note 7) and are being amortized over the term of the related bond issue. Unamortized costs were $3,173,000 and $3,265,000 at September 26, 2004, and September 28, 2003, respectively, and are included in other assets on the consolidated statements of fi nancial position.
Income Tax Status. RAND is exempt from income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code and corresponding California provisions and has qualifi ed for the 50 percent charitable contributions limitation. RAND has been classifi ed as an organization that is not a private foundation under Section 509(a)(1) and has been designated a “publicly supported” organization under Section 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Foreign Currency Translation. The assets and liabilities of RAND Europe are translated at year-end exchange rates; transactions are translated at the average exchange rates during the year. The accumulated unrealized gain included in unrestricted net assets from operations on the statement of fi nancial position was $442,000 and $199,000 as of September 26, 2004, and September 28, 2003, respectively. Gains and losses from foreign currency translation for the period are included in the statement of activities and changes in net assets.
Supplemental Cash Flow Information. Cash paid for interest was $1,180,000 in fi scal year 2004 and $1,779,000 in fi scal year 2003. These amounts are net of capitalized interest of $1,470,000 and $544,000, in the respective years.
Reclassifi cations. Certain prior-year amounts have been reclassifi ed to conform with the current-year presentation.
3. Billed and Unbilled Costs and Fees:The following table summarizes the components of billed and unbilled contract and grant costs and fees (in thousands):
September 26, September 28, 2004 2003 U.S. government agencies Billed $ 9,215 $ 7,123 Unbilled 10,554 12,416
19,769 19,539
State, local, and private sponsors Billed 10,983 6,909 Unbilled 9,072 6,389
20,055 13,298
$ 39,824 $ 32,837
Unbilled amounts principally represent recoverable costs and accrued fees billed in October 2004 and October 2003, respectively.
No signifi cant contract terminations are anticipated at present, and past contract terminations have not resulted in signifi cant unreimbursed costs.
4. Contributions Receivable:At September 26, 2004, and September 28, 2003, RAND included $7,706,000 and $3,437,000, respectively, of unconditional promises to give in the fi nancial statements as part of other receivables and other assets. The receivables are recorded net of the discount for future cash fl ows. The discount rate applied was 5 percent for pledges due within fi ve years and 7 percent for pledges due after fi ve years. Receivables expected in one year or less are included in other receivables and receivables expected after one year are included in other assets on the consolidated statements of fi nancial position.
Realization of the pledges is expected in the following periods (in thousands):
September 26, September 28, 2004 2003
In one year or less $ 4,315 $ 2,218 Between one year and fi ve years 2,217 1,307 Five years or more 3,156 — Less discount (1,982) (88)
$ 7,706 $ 3,437
Contributions receivable are intended for the following uses (in thousands):
September 26, September 28, 2004 2003
Temporarily restricted $ 4,454 $ 3,109 Permanently restricted 3,252 328
$ 7,706 $ 3,437
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During the fi scal year ended September 26, 2004, RAND received payments of prior-year pledges in the amount of $1,418,000. No allowance for uncollectible pledges was deemed necessary at September 26, 2004, or September 28, 2003.
Donors have made conditional promises to give of $4,603,000 and $4,537,000 as of September 26, 2004, and September 28, 2003, respectively. These conditional pledges, which include revocable deferred gifts, are not recorded in these consolidated fi nancial statements.
5. Long-Term Investments:Cash and cash equivalents included in long-term investments consist of commercial paper, money market funds, and other short-term investments and are carried at cost, which approximates fair value.
Shares of bond funds and equity funds are presented at fair value. These funds consist of investments in both domestic and foreign equity securities and bonds. Approximately 24 percent of the long-term assets consist of foreign stocks and bonds. RAND also has equity interest in alternative investments that invest in securities and other instruments, some of which do not have a readily available market value. The alternative investments are carried at RAND’s portion of each investment’s net book value which approximates fair value. Cost of securities sold is determined by the specifi c identifi cation method.
As of September 26, 2004, and September 28, 2003, RAND had commitments outstanding to purchase alternative investments of $702,000 and $962,000, respectively.
Investment income is shown net of related expenses of $617,000 and $404,000, for the fi scal years ended September 26, 2004, and September 28, 2003, respectively.
Long-term investments consist of the following (in thousands):
September 26, September 28, 2004 2003
Cash and cash equivalents $ 4,498 $ 6,228
Shares of bond funds, at fair value (cost, 2004—$ 78,479, and 2003—$ 70,031) 78,791 75,579
Shares of equity funds, at fair value (cost, 2004—$ 37,377, and 2003—$ 34,607) 46,356 37,037
Alternative investments (cost, 2004—$ 19,842, and 2003—$ 15,224) 29,644 22,411
$ 159,289 $ 141,255
6. Postretirement Benefi ts Other Than Pensions:In addition to providing certain retirement benefi ts, RAND provides health care benefi ts to certain employees who retire having met the required age and years of service with RAND. This coverage also applies to their dependents. Retirees may elect coverage under the Preferred Provider Organization, various HMOs, or reimbursement of individually purchased Medigap policies. Medicare becomes the primary coverage for retirees when they reach age 65. Retirees and dependents share substantially in the cost of coverage. RAND retains the right, subject to existing agreements, to change or eliminate these benefi ts.
RAND has not yet determined whether the benefi ts provided by this plan are actuarially equivalent to the drug benefi ts provided under the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 (the Act). Therefore, the effects of the Act are not refl ected in the accrued liability and net periodic benefi t cost of the plan.
The following table sets forth the plan’s funded status reconciled with the amount shown in the consolidated statements of fi nancial position (in thousands):
September 26, September 28, 2004 2003 Change in benefi t obligation Benefi t obligation at beginning of year $ 16,586 $ 12,428 Service cost 548 378 Increase due to passage of time 1,036 824 Plan participants’ contributions 277 227 Amendments — — Actuarial (gain) loss 2,617 3,496 Benefi ts paid (893) (767)
Benefi t obligation at end of year 20,171 16,586
Change in plan assets Fair value of plan assets at beginning of year 3,863 3,293 Actual return on plan assets 328 490 Employer contributions 950 620 Plan participants’ contributions 277 227 Benefi ts paid (893) (767)
Fair value of plan assets at end of year 4,525 3,863
Funded status (15,646) (12,723) Unrecognized net actuarial gain 4,356 1,850 Unrecognized prior service cost (181) (275)
$ (11,471) $ (11,148)
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The health care cost trend rate assumption has a signifi cant effect on the amounts reported. Increasing the assumed health care cost trend rates by one percentage point in each year would increase the service cost and increase due to passage-of-time components of the fi scal year 2004 expense by $367,000 and the accumulated postretirement benefi t obligation as of September 26, 2004, by $3,025,000. Decreasing the assumed health care cost trend rates by one percentage point in each year would decrease the service cost and decrease due to passage-of-time components of the fi scal year 2004 expense by $294,000 and the accumulated postretirement benefi t obligation as of September 26, 2004, by $2,493,000.
For measuring the liabilities, the health care cost trend rates were assumed to be 9.5 percent for the fi scal year ended September 26, 2004, for pre-65 and post-65 benefi ts, gradually declining to 5.0 percent for both after 7 years, and remaining at that level thereafter. The APBO discount rate was 6.10 percent and 6.35 percent at September 26, 2004, and September 28, 2003, respectively.
The net periodic postretirement benefi t cost (credit) for fi scal years ended September 26, 2004, and September 28, 2003, included the following components (in thousands):
2004 2003
Service cost-benefi ts attributed to service during the period $ 548 $ 378 Increase in the accumulated postretirement benefi t obligation to recognize the effects of the passage of time 1,036 824 Return on plan assets (318) (266) Recognition of gain 85 (70) Recognition of prior service cost (93) (93)
$ 1,258 $ 773
RAND contributes to a Voluntary Employee Benefi t Association irrevocable trust that is used to partially fund health care benefi ts for future retirees. In general, retiree health benefi ts are paid as covered expenses are incurred.
7. Borrowing Arrangements:Revenue Bonds. In July 2002, RAND issued $130,000,000 of tax-exempt revenue bonds to fi nance construction of its new Santa Monica facility. The payment of the principal and interest on the bonds is insured by a third party. Long-term debt, including unamortized bond premium, is as follows (in thousands):
September 26, September 28, 2004 2003
California Infrastructure and Economic Development Fixed Rate Revenue Bonds, Series 2002A, issued in the original principal amount of $32,500,000, in connection with the construction of a new facility in Santa Monica, California, in July 2002; interest rates ranging from 3.50% to 5.50%; annual principal payments ranging from $345,000 to $1,905,000, beginning April 1, 2006, and ending April 1, 2042, including un-amortized bond premium of $177,000 and $184,000 as of September 26, 2004, and September 28, 2003, respectively $ 32,677 $ 32,684
California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank Variable Rate Revenue Bonds, Series 2002B, issued in the original principal amount of $97,500,000, in connection with the construction of a new facility in Santa Monica, California, in July 2002; weighted average interest rate of 1.05% inception to date as of September 26, 2004; annual principal payments ranging from $1,430,000 to $4,400,000, beginning April 1, 2006, and ending April 1, 2042 97,500 97,500
$ 130,177 $ 130,184
Annual bond principal payments are required in the following fi scal years (in thousands):
2005 $ — 2006 2,415 2007 1,785 2008 1,835 2009 1,910 Thereafter 122,055
$ 130,000
Accrued interest payable relating to the bonds was $937,000 and $896,000 as of September 26, 2004, and September 28, 2003, respectively.
Line of Credit. RAND has an uncollateralized line of credit in the principal amount of $18,000,000 at September 26, 2004, which expires in June 2005. The line of credit contains covenants that require RAND to maintain a minimum amount of liquid assets and tangible net worth. There were no amounts outstanding at September 26, 2004, and September 28, 2003. Under the terms of the credit agreement, interest is payable monthly at either the prime rate less .75 percent or the LIBOR rate plus 1.5 percent, as selected by RAND. The largest
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amounts drawn on the line-of-credit agreement were $11,700,000 and $8,400,000 in fi scal years 2004 and 2003, respectively. Interest expense was $46,000 and $29,000 for the fi scal years ended September 26, 2004, and September 28, 2003, respectively.
8. Commitments and Contingencies:Lease Commitments. Operating lease commitments, net of sublease income of $1,922,000, are as follows (in thousands):
2005 $ 7,818 2006 8,649 2007 8,701 2008 8,330 2009 7,972 Thereafter 46,372
$ 87,842
Future minimum rentals are primarily comprised of microcomputer, equipment, offi ce, and warehouse space leases. All property leases generally require RAND to pay for utilities, insurance, taxes, and maintenance. RAND’s net rental expense was $10,380,000 and $10,439,000 for the fi scal years ended September 26, 2004, and September 28, 2003, respectively.
Construction Commitment. RAND is obligated for $77,185,000 under the Final Guaranteed Maximum Price Contract related to the construction of a new headquarters facility in Santa Monica, California. As of September 26, 2004, and September 28, 2003, $74,039,000 and $33,689,000 had been expended under the contract and recorded as construction in progress. Also included in construction in progress are $3,023,000 and $1,552,000 for capitalized interest as of September 26, 2004, and September 28, 2003, respectively.
Other Commitments. Contract costs billed to government clients are subject to audit by the Defense Contract Audit Agency (“DCAA”). Resulting indirect cost adjustments, if any, are prorated to all contracts. Contract costs billed prior to September 28, 2003, have been audited and accepted. To date, there have been no signifi cant cost disallowances. In the opinion of management, contract costs billed subsequent to September 28, 2003, are allowable, and any potential cost disallowance would not materially affect RAND’s consolidated fi nancial position or results of operations.
RAND has certain contingent liabilities with respect to claims arising from the ordinary course of business. In the opinion of management, such contingent liabilities will not result in any loss that would materially affect RAND’s fi nancial position or results of operations.
Environmental Remediation. Under the terms of an agreement with the City of Santa Monica (the City) for the sale of land owned by RAND, RAND is responsible for the demolition of existing buildings on the site and environmental remediation with respect to the underlying land. In addition, RAND will be entitled to reimbursement from the City of specifi ed entitlement costs, including costs of energy-effi cient construction of the new headquarters building.
During 2004, RAND reevaluated its best estimate of costs related to the demolition and remediation and, based on the new information available, accrued additional expenses and liability of $2,600,000 included in other item—loss on sale of land and other liabilities. The estimated outstanding liability associated with the demolition and environmental remediation, net of the receivable for specifi ed entitlement costs, is $7,175,000 and $4,637,000 as of September 26, 2004, and September 28, 2003, respectively. In accordance with the terms of the agreement, an escrow account has been established to ensure performance of these matters.
9. Net Assets:Board-Designated Net Assets. Board-designated net assets are available for the following purposes (in thousands):
September 26, September 28, 2004 2003
Designated for investment $ 122,602 $ 116,094
Designated for special use: RAND Education 2,139 1,027 RAND Institute for Civil Justice 1,946 1,834 National Security Research and Training 1,669 1,381 President’s Fund 478 407 RAND Center for Russia and Eurasia 105 364 Lectureship on Science Policy 100 80 Pardee RAND Graduate School 43 31 Paul O’Neill Alcoa Professorship in Policy Analysis 31 — Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy 24 — Other 12 22
6,547 5,146
$ 129,149 $ 121,240
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Temporarily Restricted Net Assets. Temporarily restricted net assets are available for the following purposes (in thousands):
September 26, September 28, 2004 2003
Pardee RAND Graduate School $ 2,252 $ 1,270 RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy 2,240 2,778 National Security Research and Training 1,610 1,603 RAND Center for Russia and Eurasia: RAND Business Leaders Forum 1,272 1,490 General support 396 — RAND Center for Domestic and International Health Security 1,224 2,032 RAND Headquarters 904 153 RAND Center for Asia Pacifi c Policy 683 707 RAND Health 542 274 RAND Child Policy 455 — Paul O’Neill Alcoa Professorship in Policy Analysis 348 201 RAND Institute for Civil Justice 286 358 Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy 255 449 RAND Center for Terrorism Risk Management Policy 168 30 Lectureship on Science Policy 136 144 RAND Alumni 133 121 RAND Drug Policy Research Center 119 214 RAND Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment 44 32 RAND Education 31 14 Other 84 13
$ 13,182 $ 11,883
Permanently Restricted Net Assets. Permanently restricted assets are shown below by the purpose designated by the donor. The assets are invested in perpetuity and the income is available to support the restricted activities (in thousands):
September 26, September 28, 2004 2003
Pardee RAND Graduate School: General support $ 10,420 $ 1,574 Awards and Scholarships 2,254 970 National Security Research and Training 4,500 4,500 RAND Institute for Civil Justice 4,125 4,125 Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy 3,670 3,670 Paul O’Neill Alcoa Professorship in Policy Analysis 2,479 2,479 RAND—general support 2,410 1,396 RAND Center for Russia and Eurasia 250 250 Lectureship on Science Policy 246 246 RAND Education 241 241 Other 31 31
$ 30,626 $ 19,482
10. Employee Retirement Plans:RAND has three defi ned contribution employee plans: a Qualifi ed Retirement Plan (“QRP”), a Supplemental Retirement Annuity Plan (“SRAP”), and a Nonqualifi ed Supplementary Plan (“NSP”). Most full-time, regular employees are eligible to participate in the QRP and SRAP. Certain employees are eligible to participate in the NSP. RAND has reserved the right to terminate the plans at any time, but in such an event, the benefi ts already purchased by the participant and contributions already made by RAND would not be affected. The QRP and the NSP are entirely RAND-fi nanced. RAND’s contributions to the Plans for eligible employees range from 5 percent to 14 percent of salaries, depending on the level of wages and age of the participating employee. RAND’s contributions to the QRP vest at the earlier of retirement or four years of service. Vesting begins after two years of service and increases weekly to 100 percent at the end of four years of service. The NSP vests under various conditions specifi ed in the plan. All contributions made by RAND are charged to operations. RAND’s contributions were $8,865,000 and $8,590,000 for the fi scal years ended September 26, 2004, and September 28, 2003, respectively. The SRAP only requires employee contributions and RAND does not contribute to this plan.
11. Subsequent Event:On September 29, 2004, RAND obtained the certifi cation of occupancy for its new facility in Santa Monica, California. In relation to that event, $3,127,000 of buildings and improvements and $6,387,000 of equipment as of September 26, 2004, were sold or retired. A loss of $323,000 was recorded in fi scal year 2005 relating to those transactions. Construction in progress of $105,437,000 was placed in service in fi scal year 2005.
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Young cellist, Symphony Hall, Boston, November 2004 (page 4)
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DIANE BALDWINSheila Kirby (inside front cover)
James Thomson and Ann McLaughlin Korologos (page 2)
Kevin McCarthy (page 5)
Ashlesha Datar and Roland Sturm (page 8)
Beth Asch and James Hosek (page 10)
Lloyd Dixon (page 12)
Donald Stevens (page 14)
Thomas K. Glennan, Jr. (page 17)
Narayan Sastry, Jeff Marquis, and Nell Griffi th Forge (page 28, left)
Amy Pascal and Tony Pascal (page 32)
Pardee RAND Graduate School (page 36)
Bruce Hoffman (back cover)
CRIS MOLINADavid Ortiz and Henry Willis (page 7)
Angel Rabasa (page 19)
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Frank Carlucci and Rollie Lal (page 33)
JON SOOHOOBruce Karatz (page 31)
B U I L D I N G O N A L E G A C Y
(Front cover) RAND researcher Harriet Kagiwada, circa 1960
(Inside front cover) Sheila Kirby, Associate Director, RAND Education, circa 2004
(Back cover) Bruce Hoffman, Director, Washington Offi ce, circa 2004
(Inside back cover) RAND researcher Amron Katz, circa 1950
Strategic Analysis:The Long-TermCompetition
Remotely PilotedVehicles
Preliminary Design of anExperimental World-CirclingSpaceship (1946)
StrategicBombingAnalysis
Exotic Materialsand Fuels
Effi ciency and Economyin Government ThroughNew Budgeting andAccounting Procedures
Missiles vs. Aircraft
Air Defense Strategic Offensive Forces Study
Packet Switching:Seed of the Internet
METRIC
The Operational Code of the Politburo
Problem-Solvingwith Monte CarloTechniques
InformationProcessingLanguage (IPL)
DetectingNuclear Tests
LinearProgrammingand Extensions
Sea-Based vs. Land-Based Tactical Air
Computer Security Manpower and Personnel Policies
JOHNNIACDigitalComputer
ReconnaissanceSatellites
First On-Line,Time-SharedComputer System
Economics ofDefense in theNuclear Age
Remote AreaConfl ict Space Defense
A Proposed Strategyfor the Acquisitionof Avionics Equipment
Air ForceLong-RangePlanning Studies System
Acquisition
Selection andUse of StrategicAir Bases
SystemsAnalysis
History of SovietNuclear Research RAND Tablet:
Communicatingwith Computers in Real Time Via Hand-Printed Text
System Analysisand Public Policy Space
Systems
Future ofCableTelevision
Vulnerabilityof U.S. ArmyEquipmentPrepositioned inCentral Europe
Air Force Health Care System
SystemsResearchLaboratory Military R&D
PoliciesICBM Modernizationand Basing Concepts
Air ReserveForces Study
Alternative LogisticsStructures: ANALOGS 80
HousingAssistanceSupplyExperiment
AerialRefueling
Design of MultipleIndependently TargetableReentry Vehicles
AlternativeApproachesto the Defenseof Europe
ElectromagneticPulse (EMP)
Strategy in the Missile Age
JOSS (JOHNNIACOpen Shop System)
NATO Force PlanningStrategic Force-Building and CrisisManagement
Mappingthe Planets
Water QualitySimulation Model
ComputerPrivacy andSecurity
Defense of theTactical Air Forcein Europe
PPBS
SpaceHandbook
DelphiMethod Air-Launched vs.
Ground-LaunchedSatellite Boosters
Evaluationsand Optionsfor Vietnam
New York CityPolice Project
Strategic AirliftNeeds andAlternativesfor the 1980s
Tactical AirCapabilities
STAR: Impact ofAlternative IntercityShort-HaulTransportationSystems
All-VolunteerForce
Handbook onthe Theory ofGames
ExpertJudgment
Game Theory
A Million RandomDigits with 100,000 Normal Deviates
CORONAProject
DynamicProgramming
Water Supply:Economics,Technology,and Policy
SimulationsUsing SIMSCRIPT
Soviet CyberneticsTechnology
Soviet MilitaryResearch and Development
Private SecurityIndustry
HealthInsuranceExperiment
First Project RAND letter contract (to Douglas Aircraft Co.)
RAND Corporation established
First non–Air Force study (for the Atomic Energy Commission)
Headquarters opens at 1700 Main Street, Santa Monica
Systems Development Division created; spun off as SDC in 1957
Studies for ARPA, NASA, OSD, AID, NSF, and NIH begin
Washington Defense Research Division established
New York City-RAND Institute established
RAND Graduate School founded
Domestic Research Division established; includes programs on Education, Health, and Labor & Population
National Security Research Division established
Institute for Civil Justice established
National Defense Research Institute and the Arroyo Center established
European American Center opens (later becomes RAND Europe)
Critical Technologies Institute established
Center for Domestic and International Health Security created
RAND-Qatar Policy Institute opens
RAND division on Infrastructure, Safety, and the Environment established
RAND moves into new headquarters at 1776 Main Street, Santa Monica
Changing Role of Information in Warfare
Rapidly Deployable Ground Forces
Counterterrorism
Social Security Concerns
Homeland Security
Nation-Building in Iraq
Federal ProgramsSupporting EducationalChange
Policy Options andthe Impact of NationalHealth Insurance
Computer ResourceManagement Study
SchedulingAircrews andAircraft
Water ResourceManagement inthe Netherlands
TSAR/TSARINAAir Base AttackSimulation Models
Red StrategicCampaign Analysis
Use and Misuse ofCalifornia’s WaterResources
Impact of Deductibles onthe Demand for Medical Care
Preventive DentalCare for Children
Malaysian FamilyLife Survey
Equity in PublicSchool Finance
Career Criminals
Asian Security: Policiesfor a Time of Transition
Court-CenteredArbitration
Ballistic MissileBasing Alternatives
Resolution of MedicalMalpractice Claims
Revitalization ofCleveland’s Economy
Workers’ Compensationand Workplace Safety
Strategic Defenseand Deterrence
Dyna-METRIC
RAND StrategyAssessment Center
Survivability andUtility of Tactical Air
Costs of AsbestosLitigation
Teen Drug Abuse andSmoking Prevention:Project ALERT
Civil JuryVerdicts andAwards
LHX: Army LightAttack Helicopter
Toward Ethicsand Etiquette forElectronic Mail
Terrorism in theUnited States
Next Phase of U.S.–Soviet Relations
Closing the Gap: FortyYears of EconomicProgress for Blacks
EffectiveTeacherSelection
Air CrashLitigation
PunitiveDamages
Prevalence,Predictability, andPolicy Implicationsof Recidivism
A Framework forDefense Planning:Strategies-to-Tasks
Health Insuranceand the Demandfor Medical Care
Costs ofTreating AIDSUnder Medicaid
Leadership Change inNorth Korean Politics
Conventional ArmsControl Revisited
Appropriatenessof Acute Medical Care
RecruitingEffects of ArmyAdvertising
The New Calculus:Analyzing Airpower’sChanging Role
Economics ofDrug Dealing
No-Fault Approachesto Compensating AutoAccident Injuries
Immigration: Effects on Education, Jobs, and Government Spending
Evaluation ofCHAMPUSReform Initiative
FORWARD–Freight Optionsfor Road, Water, and Railfor the Dutch
Cost and Use ofCapitated MedicalServices
Decentralizationand Accountabilityin Public Education
Emerging Technologyand Arms Control
OperationalIssues for GPS
Urban America:Policy Choices forLos Angeles andthe Nation
Lessonsfrom theGulf War
Superfund andTransaction Costs
Sexual Orientationand U.S. MilitaryPersonnel Policy
VelocityManagement
NATOExpansion
Three Strikesand You’re Out
Decline of U.S.Machine ToolIndustry
Universal Access toE-Mail: Feasibility andSocietal Implications
Quality ofHealth Care
Unequal Wealthand Incentivesto Save
HIV Cost and ServicesUtilization Study(HCSUS)
Mandatory MinimumSentences for Drug Cases
Defense BaseClosures
Fiscal Federalism andthe Social Safety Net
Military OperationsOther Than War
Fiscal Crisis inHigher Education
Preparing forConfl ict in theInformation Age
Interventions inthe First ThreeYears of Life
Judicial Case ManagementUnder the Civil JusticeReform Act
QuadrennialDefense Review
Effective PowerGeneration UnderDeregulation
LeanLogistics
Large-Scale Education Testing
Treatment of Depression
How Americans Were Affected by the Events of 9/11
California Energy Crisis
Education Vouchers and Charter Schools
Cost of Prescription Drug Plans
Reducing Violent Gang-Related Crime
Health Care Quality
Education Reform In Qatar
Costs of Obesity
Medicare Payment for Rehabilitation
The Changing Workplace
Parity Legislation for Mental Health
Inadequate Compensation for Worker Injuries
Training Emergency Responders
Public Health Preparedness
Safety of Ephedra
Military Transformation
Senior Leadership Development in the DoD
Alternative for the Next Generation Gunship
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