Guidance from the RAND Corporation for the US submarine project

China defense technology information network reported RAND in recently on how purchased and built submarine of recommendations report in the warned said, as defense costs tighten, United States and other national submarine project is may to for more check. RAND in recently published of report in the said, from United States, and United Kingdom, and Australia submarine project experience and lessons known, as submarine using life variable long, and and most national defense budget reduced, new submarine project appeared of chances will more less. 　　RAND said that large differences between the new project in the future, in which the employees will access to manage complex processes and make decisions less than in the past. new project managers of the future will not be able to learn more from the challenge and to solve the problem. in theory, the RAND Corporation has proposed a number of tactical and strategic advice on the development of the submarine project. RAND said establishment of an effective procurement contract environment is critical, including the following:-to consider a separate
Design/construction a primary contract-using provides of contract structure processing project risk, encourages contractor implementation cost, and time and performance target-carried out actual of cost and schedule plans assessment-decided Government provides device-established unified of track mechanism and paid sums time arrangements RAND said in new submarine service Hou, run and dependent also needs large of costs. therefore must for new submarine established a full of logistics support plans-RAND said in design stage on should for full of logistics support established a policy- Complete logistics support plan need to consider from the entire vision of the Navy, rather than several unique advantages-building programme from the project site feature, database maintenance, reliability, for crew training and handed over to the fleet plan RAND Corporation also represents a high standard of knowledge policy applies to all projects, and in the Government by a major submarine organizations use. these known