Elvira N. Loredo
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Education
Overview
Biography
Elvira N. Loredo is an operations researcher at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Loredo has worked on several RAND National Defense Research Institute projects in Afghanistan and Iraq in the areas of civil society engagement and corruption. She has also conducted research in the Arroyo Military Logistics Program and RAND Project AIR FORCE's Resource Management Program analyzing policies and practices in the areas of logistics, global supply chain, and distribution infrastructure. Loredo is the author or contributing author of several RAND reports, including The Battle Behind the Wire: U.S. Prisoner and Detainee Operations from World War II to Iraq (Benard et al. 2011) and Programmed Depot Maintenance Capacity Assessment Tool: Workloads, Capacity, and Availability (Loredo et al., 2007). Prior to joining RAND, she was a quality manager with United Technologies Corporation. Loredo received her Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Arizona State University.
Research Focus
Recent Projects
- Cost of poor quality parts to Army aviation
- Assessing supply chain risk in Air Force fleet sustainment
- Corporate responsibility for anticorruption efforts in developing markets
- Use of the C-27J fixed-wing aircraft for conducting time-sensitive missions in counterinsurgency operations
- Programmed depot maintenance capacity assessment tool: workloads, capacity, and availability
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