Weathering the Storm: Have IDAs Helped Low-Income Homebuyers Avoid Foreclosure?

Examines the demographics of low-income families with Individual Development Accounts, matched savings accounts designed to help them save and build assets through homeownership; their loan terms; and foreclosure rates. Discusses policy implications

Issues With Access to Acquisition Data & Information in the Department of Defense: Policy & Practice

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Considerations for Managing Acquisition Data in theEmerging Acquisition Environment

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Identification and Characterization of Data for Acquisition Category (ACAT) II–IV Programs

Acquisition data lay the foundation for decision-making, management, insight, and oversight of the Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) acquisition program portfolio. A large amount of information—based on statutory and regulatory reporting requirements and used for program execution, oversight, insight, and analysis—is collected on the higher cost major defense acquisition programs (MDAPs; referred to as Acquisition Category [ACAT] I programs). However, the DoD also makes additional smaller investments that are categorized as ACAT II–IV acquisition programs, pre-MDAPs, and Defense Business Systems, and the current program data environment features varying definitions, policy, collection methods, and use cases across the DoD. RAND researchers documented the DoD status quo for identifying, collecting, and storing acquisition data from different programs, performed an initial gap analysis, and developed recommendations that build on what the OSD and Service acquisition information managers have accomplished to date and that move the DoD toward a common framework for data governance and management.Naval Postgraduate School Acquisition Research Progra

Issues With Access to Acquisition Data and Information in the Department of Defense: Doing Data Right in Weapon System Acquisition

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Issues With Access to Acquisition Information in the Department of Defense: Considerations for Managing Program Data in the Emerging Acquisition Environment

Acquisition data lay the foundation for decision-making, management, insight, and oversight of the Department of Defense’s acquisition program portfolio. Recent statutory changes to organizational structures, as well as to roles, responsibilities, and authorities, have introduced new challenges and opportunities for the collection, storage, and use of acquisition information. This research identifies and describes some of the issues and challenges related to managing acquisition program information in this emerging acquisition environment and suggests options for addressing these challenges and opportunities.Naval Postgraduate School Acquisition Research Progra

Assessing Department of Defense Use of Data Analytics and Enabling Data Management to Improve Acquisition Outcomes

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Identifying Urban Flashpoints: A Delphi-Derived Model for Scoring Cities' Vulnerability to Large-Scale Unrest

Although great strides have been made toward forecasting state-level instability, little progress has been made toward the prediction of outbreaks of urban unrest. This article presents a method for the assessment of cities' vulnerability to large-scale urban unrest. Forty-five factors correlated with urban unrest are identified and weighted by an expert panel. Based on expert elicitation through an iterative Delphi exercise, the explicitly methodological discussion describes both the process and the resulting assessment framework. Results include a tool that will allow users to rank cities on their vulnerability to large-scale urban unrest

Assessing Department of Defense Use of Data Analytics and Enabling Data Management to Improve Acquisition Outcomes

Panel #25: Unlocking the Value of Acquisition DataAcquisition Research: Creating Synergy for Informed Change. 17th Annual Acquisition Research Symposiu