Capabilities Based Planning

Capabilities-based planning enables military agencies to identify program needs, allocate resources, and track activities and outcomes. RAND develops methodologies and tools such as this to assist the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, and other defense agencies in evaluating their manpower, equipment, cooperative relationships with military partners, and other capabilities.

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Jun 16, 2025

The Potential for Shared Resources to Support State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Government Use of Artificial Intelligence

The authors describe a framework of considerations for state, local, tribal, and territorial governments interested in using artificial intelligence tools and the potential for those governments to use shared resources to address the considerations.
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Mar 22, 2024

Towards Defence Supply Chain Disruption Management

Supply chains are highly vulnerable to events that are unexpected and difficult to plan for but may have far-reaching and catastrophic consequences. Researchers explored how to design resilient defence supply chains that are secure from these 'Black Swan' events.
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Aug 21, 2023

Creating Readiness Metrics for the Army Civilian Workforce: A Way Ahead for Integrating Readiness into Civilian Workforce Planning

The authors develop a definition of and model for measuring civilian workforce readiness to inform Army policies and practices using qualitative methods, with which they identify potential data sources for readiness metrics.
Research

Mar 23, 2023

Data-Enabled Approaches for Enhancing the Air Force Transformational Capability Pipeline

To aid the Air Force Transformational Capabilities Office, the authors of the report developed a data science tool to extract information from free-text descriptions. They demonstrate the tool and foresight methods in three case studies.
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Feb 21, 2023

Broad and Selectively Deep: An MRMPM Paradigm for Supporting Analysis

To aid policy analysis and decision making, projects should use models and simulations of varied resolution and perspective. This can improve analysis, improve communication, and provide a broad view, necessary detail, and alternative views.
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Jul 30, 2020

Understanding the challenges and opportunities towards a UK Strategy for Integrated Air and Missile Defence

The Global Strategic Partnership developed and tested alternative conceptual lenses for thinking about the specific challenges and opportunities of IAMD in the UK context. The research was used by the Ministry of Defence to inform strategy and policy development.
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Jun 24, 2019

Designing a Capability Development Framework for Home Affairs

Australia's Department of Home Affairs is seeking to establish an auditable, transparent and evidence-based approach to capability lifecycle management. The authors of this report describe a principles-based model to meet the department's needs.
Research

Jun 3, 2019

Valuing Air Force Electric Power Resilience: A Framework for Mission-Level Investment Prioritization

This report addresses the U.S. Air Force's need for a systematic way to value the risk to missions associated with electric power--related disruptions and accordingly set priorities among investments in power resilience.
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Nov 15, 2017

Estimating Air Force Deployment Requirements for Lean Force Packages: A Methodology and Decision Support Tool Prototype

This report describes a methodology and prototype tool -- the Lean Strategic Tool for the Analysis of Required Transportation (Lean-START) -- that can explore trade-offs among capability (or risk), speed, and cost to create force packages for deployment.
Research

Sep 12, 2016

Capabilities for Joint Analysis in the Department of Defense: Rethinking Support for Strategic Analysis

This report stems from a congressional request for an independent report about the U.S. Department of Defense's capabilities for joint analysis and ways to improve them.
Research

Mar 24, 2014

Venture Capital and Strategic Investment for Developing Government Mission Capabilities

Through case studies and economic modeling, this research on government strategic investment will help acquisition managers evaluate strategic investment methods to motivate mission-oriented innovation by private firms.
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Mar 20, 2014

Analysis to Inform Defense Planning Despite Austerity

Defense analysis can better serve policymakers by exploiting improvements in the state of the art and by rediscovering and supplementing classic principles. These relate to multiple objectives and hedging against uncertainty.

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The Potential for Shared Resources to Support State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Government Use of Artificial Intelligence

Towards Defence Supply Chain Disruption Management

Creating Readiness Metrics for the Army Civilian Workforce: A Way Ahead for Integrating Readiness into Civilian Workforce Planning

Data-Enabled Approaches for Enhancing the Air Force Transformational Capability Pipeline

Broad and Selectively Deep: An MRMPM Paradigm for Supporting Analysis

Understanding the challenges and opportunities towards a UK Strategy for Integrated Air and Missile Defence

Designing a Capability Development Framework for Home Affairs

Valuing Air Force Electric Power Resilience: A Framework for Mission-Level Investment Prioritization

Estimating Air Force Deployment Requirements for Lean Force Packages: A Methodology and Decision Support Tool Prototype

Capabilities for Joint Analysis in the Department of Defense: Rethinking Support for Strategic Analysis

Venture Capital and Strategic Investment for Developing Government Mission Capabilities

Analysis to Inform Defense Planning Despite Austerity

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Capabilities Based Planning

Related Topics

Designing a Capability Development Framework for Home Affairs

Capabilities-Based Planning Can Enhance Energy Security at DoD Installations

Explore RAND’s Work on this Topic

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The Potential for Shared Resources to Support State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Government Use of Artificial Intelligence

Towards Defence Supply Chain Disruption Management

Creating Readiness Metrics for the Army Civilian Workforce: A Way Ahead for Integrating Readiness into Civilian Workforce Planning

Data-Enabled Approaches for Enhancing the Air Force Transformational Capability Pipeline

Broad and Selectively Deep: An MRMPM Paradigm for Supporting Analysis

Understanding the challenges and opportunities towards a UK Strategy for Integrated Air and Missile Defence

Designing a Capability Development Framework for Home Affairs

Valuing Air Force Electric Power Resilience: A Framework for Mission-Level Investment Prioritization

Estimating Air Force Deployment Requirements for Lean Force Packages: A Methodology and Decision Support Tool Prototype

Capabilities for Joint Analysis in the Department of Defense: Rethinking Support for Strategic Analysis

Venture Capital and Strategic Investment for Developing Government Mission Capabilities

Analysis to Inform Defense Planning Despite Austerity

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