Chad J. R. Ohlandt

Biography

Chad Ohlandt is an associate engineer with the RAND Corporation. As an aerospace engineer, he has backgrounds in computational fluid dynamics, supercomputing, plasma physics, nuclear fusion, and space propulsion. He also has a solid background in Chinese and East Asian politics based on experiences from a year in Taiwan as a Fulbrighter, visiting Chinese universities and space research centers as a Boren Fellow (NSEP), and a summer in Beijing at the Chinese Academy of Sciences with the NSF East Asia Summer Institute.

His work at RAND revolves around the development and acquisition of advanced aerospace systems to meet civilian, commercial, and national security U.S. requirements. In addition to U.S. aerospace programmatics, he studies foreign aerospace industrial policy and progams including competition, cooperation, and global supply chains with an emphasis on Asia and China.