Kyle Siler-Evans

This document explains how to apply standard Office of Management and Budget and Department of Defense (DoD) guidance on project evaluation to product support business case analyses (BCAs) in a way that allows senior DoD decisionmakers to use net present value as the dominant figure of merit for comparing courses of action. Findings are stated in BCA dollar value terms, which are figures of merit that decisionmakers understand intuitively.

This report provides an independent study of how the stormwater problem in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania metropolitan region could grow with future climate, land use, or population change, and discusses potential long-term solutions using new analytical approaches developed by RAND. The analysis provides a baseline of scientific information intended to support ongoing regional coordination around stormwater management and water-quality planning.