Paul K. Davis is a Principal Researcher at RAND and a Professor of Policy Analysis in the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His research relates to strategic and defense planning, counterterrorism, military transformation, high-level decision support, advanced qualitative and quantitative methods for modeling and simulation, ballistic missile defense, and defense acquisition. His recent books deal with capabilities-based planning, effects-based operations, model composability, and the deterrence and influence component of counterterrorism. Dr. Davis teaches graduate courses in defense planning, counter-terrorism policy, and policy analysis of strategy problems with massive uncertainty. Dr. Davis is a past member of the Naval Studies Board under the National Academy of Sciences and has served on numerous national studies He was awarded the Vance R. Wanner award by the Military Operations Research Society for lifetime achievement. Dr. Davis has served tours at RAND as a corporate research manager and program manager. Before joining RAND he was a senior executive in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He holds a B.S. from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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