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Housing Benefits: Baseline Analysis
April 1, 1997
To improve the quality of life of service members and increase overall efficiency, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Installations and Facilities asked CNA to examine Department of the Navy (DON) housing processes, identify options and alternatives to the current system, and evaluate these options. In this paper, we present our analysis of current DON housing practices. Its purpose is to describe the current state of housing benefits, including costs, conditions, processes, and value to the service members. These descriptions will serve as a baseline for comparison with proposed alternatives to the current housing system. This paper has five parts. In the first, we give a short overview of current DON housing benefits and summarize the results of the study. In the three sections that follow, we discuss current family housing, bachelor housing, and off-base allowances. In the last section, we list our conclusions.
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Case Studies in DoD Outsourcing
January 1, 1997
As part of the ongoing Outsourcing Opportunities for the Navy study, CNA was asked to think about how to implement new outsourcing and privatization initiatives. Because DoD has substantial experience in relying on the private sector for goods and services, we chose to assemble some of those experiences and look for common lessons learned. This report presents recently completed case studies in training, housing, maintenance, and base operating support.
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1996 CNA/RAND Infrastructure Symposium
December 1, 1996
The Director of Shore Installation Management (N46) sponsored CNA's participation in an Infrastructure Symposium with RAND from October 16 to 18, 1996 at the RAND Santa Monica facility. Both CNA and RAND have a long history of research in defense infrastructure. By working together, they can build upon each other's research and plan future research better than if they work in isolation. DoD continues to struggle with how to operate more effectively and fulfill its mission when resources are shrinking. In particular, DoD is looking to create a more efficient infrastructure to make funds available for recapitalization and modernization. The primary purpose of the symposium was to synthesize the results of previous and ongoing research projects and thereby identify the best areas and approaches for future research. This paper represents the views of the CNA participants. As many of the results reported were preliminary, we avoid detailing the findings.
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Rethinking Navy Manpower and Personnel
June 1, 1996
This study, originally suggested by the Chief of Naval Operations and sponsored by the Chief of Naval Personnel, took a look at several issues that fit broadly under two topics: are there better ways of doing business, and; can we improve our sailors' Quality of Life (QOL)? CNA's task was to do some 'out-of-the-box' thinking and come up with a variety of issues for further study, such as organizational changes, more cost-efficient approaches, and ways to improve sailors' QOL. Our mission was to probe topics that weren' t being adequately addressed because organizational responsibility was not clear-cut. This research memorandum provides a review of the issues examined and the conclusions drawn. Cleared for Open Publication by CNO ltr Ser 09N2/6U532301 of 15 Jul 1996; CNO Case No. 96-187.
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Current Housing Allowance Methodology: Anomalies and Alternatives
January 1, 1996
This analysis begins with a review of the current expenditure-based system. The system uses member survey information on housing expenditures to set the allowance rates. First, we will demonstrate how the current system should work in theory. Second, we will explore some of the problems in the current system either from its theoretical underpinnings or its method of execution. Third, we argue for a price-based alternative to the expenditure-based system. A price-based alternative uses rental prices for units of comparable size and quality to set the housing allowances for the different housing areas.
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The Displacement of Local Spending for Pollution Control by Federal Construction Grants
June 1, 1984
This paper measures the extent to which state and local government spending on sewer system construction is displaced by Environmental Protection Agency construction grants.
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Comparison of Civilian and Military Overhead Spending: Three Case Studies
May 1, 1984
Three kinds of Base Operating Support (BOS) activities that are also performed by the private sector are examined: maintenance of family housing, clerical support, and operation of airfields. The military and civilian funding levels are compared to gauge whether the military services are performing these activities efficiently.
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ESTIMATION OF SOME LIMITED DEPENDENT VARIABLE MODELS WITH APPLICATION TO HOUSING DEMAND
March 1, 1982
This paper proposes a complete model which allows for the simultaneous determination of whether or not to own, and how much to spend.
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ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE INTRACITY DISPERSION OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY
June 1, 1974
This paper develops a theoretical model of the crime flows between areas of a city or other urban region, identifying the factors which determine the flows. It also tests the hypotheses concerning the effects of the economic variables identified in the model on the generation and occurrence of property crime.
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A COMPARISON OF THE IMPORTANCE OF ECONOMIC VERSUS NON-ECONOMIC FACTORS AFFECTING THE RESIDENTIAL HOUSING MARKET DURING THE TWO DECADES SUBSEQUENT TO WORLD WAR II
June 1, 1974
This paper analyzes the various factors which, a priori, appear to have had a substantial influence on the post-war residential housing market. These variables include the age distribution of the population, migration trends, income levels and changes, and the availability of mortgage credit.
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