Sean Bednarz

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Associate Director, Resource Management Program, RAND Project AIR FORCE; Engineer
Santa Monica Office

Education

M.S. in aeronautical and astronautical engineering, MIT; B.S. in aeronautical and astronautical engineering, University of Notre Dame

Overview

Biography

Sean Bednarz is an engineer at RAND and the associate director of the Resource Management Program in RAND Project AIR FORCE.

Research Focus

Recent Projects

  • Increasing the Fuel Efficiency of Air Force Mobility Operations
  • Assessing Village Stability Operations in Afghanistan
  • Air Force Requirements for Direct Support to the Army
  • KC-10 Modernization Roadmap
  • USAF Intratheater Airlift Fleet Mix Analysis

Selected Publications

Anthony Rosello, Sean Bednarz, David Orletsky, Michael Kennedy, Fred Timson, Chuck Stelzner, Katherine Calef, Upgrading the Extender: which options are cost-effective for modernizing the KC-10? RAND Corporation (TR-901-AF), 2011

Anthony Rosello, Sean Bednarz, Michael Kennedy, Chuck Stelzner, Fred Timson, David Orletsky, Assessing the Cost-Effectiveness of Modernizing the KC-10 to Meet Global Air Traffic Management Mandates, RAND Corporation (MG-901-AF), 2009

Sean Bednarz and Pratap Misra, "Receiver Clock-Based Integrity Monitoring For GPS Precision Approaches," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 42(2), 2006

Pratap Misra and Sean Bednarz, "Navigation For Precision Approaches: Robust Integrity Monitoring Using GPS+Galileo," GPS World, 2004