Book/Printed Material Enhancing U.S. Coast Guard metrics Enhancing United States Coast Guard metrics

Title

• Enhancing U.S. Coast Guard metrics

Other Title

• Enhancing United States Coast Guard metrics

Summary

• "The U.S. Coast Guard needs to measure its operational-level performance effectively to make informed decisions about resource allocation. To assist the Coast Guard in this effort, the authors worked with official documentation and subject-matter experts to develop logic models describing each of the 11 statutory missions of the Coast Guard and using the descriptions to ascertain what aspects of these missions should be measured. The authors examined existing metrics in the light of these logic models, evaluating the metrics in terms of their validity (how well they measured elements of the logic models), reliability (how consistently measurements can be made), and feasibility (how readily measurements can be made). They also analyzed the extent to which existing metrics measure elements of the logic models. They then developed and evaluated sets of potential metrics that could improve on or complement the existing metrics, together with a framework for applying metrics in decisionmaking. This report describes the logic models, existing metrics, and potential metrics, including their relationships with one another and their derivation from Coast Guard sources. Note that, as of this writing, the Coast Guard is considering these findings and has not adopted them as doctrine."--Back cover.

Names

• Savitz, Scott, author
• Willis, Henry H., author
• Davenport, Aaron C., author
• Melliand, Martina, author
• Sasser, William, author
• Tencza, Elizabeth, author
• Woods, Dulani, author
• National Defense Research Institute (U.S.), sponsoring body
• Rand Corporation. issuing body

Created / Published

• Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2015]
• ©2015

Contents

• Introduction -- Methodology -- Safety Missions -- Security Missions -- Stewardship Missions -- Discussion of Overall Findings -- Using Metrics to Support Decisionmaking -- Concluding remarks -- Appendices. Search and Rescue; Marine Safety; Ports, Waterways, and Coastal Security; Drug Interdiction; Migrant Interdiction; Defense Readiness; Ice Operations; Aids to Navigation and Waterways Management; Marine Environmental Protection; Living Marine Resources; Other Law Enforcement.

Headings

• -  United States.--Coast Guard--Decision making--Evaluation
• -  United States.--Coast Guard--Operational readiness--Evaluation

Notes

• -  "Prepared for the U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic area."
• -  Also available on the Internet as a PDF file.
• -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-181).
• -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 online resource (xvii, 181 pages) : illustrations.

Call Number/Physical Location

• VG53

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2024738969

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2024738969

Rights Advisory

• This is non-restricted, fully open content that may be accessed on and off of the Library of Congress campus, with no restrictions, by an unlimited number of users

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2024738969

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