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Lance Menthe

Physical Scientist

Santa Monica Office

Education

Ph.D. in physics, University of California, Los Angeles; M.S. in physics, University of California, Los Angeles; B.A. in physics & economics, University of California, Berkeley

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Overview

Biography

Lance Menthe wrote his thesis on the physics of twisting, bending conformations of DNA. He joined RAND in 2001 to work primarily on military issues. His recent work has focused on: modeling and simulation of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) processes; and analysis of technologies and organizational constructs to improve Air Force processing, exploitation, and dissemination (PED). As a graduate student at UCLA, Menthe was extensively involved in student governance, having been elected vice president of the Graduate Students Association and later serving as chair of the Board of Directors of ASUCLA. He earned his B.A. in economics and physics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1993; an M.S. in physics from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1995; and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2001.

Research Focus

Recent Projects

Planning the USAF ISR Enterprise in the Post OIF/OEF World
Technologies for Automating PED

Selected Publications

Lance Menthe, Amado Cordova, Carl Rhodes, Rachel Costello, Jeffrey Sullivan, The Future of Air Force Motion Imagery Exploitation: Lessons from the Commercial World, RAND (TR-1133), 2011 (forthcoming)

Lance Menthe, Jeffrey Sullivan, A RAND Analysis Tool for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance, RAND (TR-557-AF), 2008