Susan S. Everingham

The authors find that well-targeted early intervention programs for at-risk children, such as nurse home visits to first-time mothers and high-quality pre-school education, can yield substantial advantages to participants in terms of emotional and cognitive development, education, economic well-being and health.

An end-to-end review of guidance across the civilian deployment process in the U. S. Department of Defense involved investigating the deployment approaches of analogous organizations, both U. S. and foreign. This report describes the requirements that generate the need for deployable civilians, the types of missions civilians support, and the methods that organizations use to identify, select, track and deploy civilians.

U. S. Department of Defense (DoD) policy requires identification of a subset of civilians to be organized, trained, and equipped to respond to expeditionary requirements. This research presents the results of an end-to-end review and analysis of DoD civilian deployment, assesses the viability of current DoD civilian deployment practice, and proposes a systematic approach to developing and maintaining DoD s civilian deployment capability."