RAND Expert Biography
Mark A. Lorell
Senior Political Scientist
Office
Santa Monica
Expertise
Weapon system acquisition, contracting, and cost analysis policies, defense industrial base policies, globalization, and defense trade, european NATO and other foreign acquisition and force structure planning/issues, international collaborative weapons procurement and technology transfer policies
Recent Work
Implementation challenges for defense space system acquisition programs
Education
Ph.D. in modern European military and diplomatic history, University of Washington; M.A. in European military and diplomatic history, University of California, Berkeley; B.A. in modern European history, Yale University
Publications of Interest
Price-Based Acquisition: Issues and Challenges for Defense Department Procurement of Weapon Systems, Mark A. Lorell et al., RAND Corporation, 2005
"Headlines over the Horizon: Defense Industry Goliaths," Mark Lorell et al., The Atlantic Monthly, July/Aug 2003
The U.S. Combat Aircraft Industry, 1909-2000: Structure, Competition, Innovation, RAND Corporation, 2003
Going Global? U.S. Government Policy and the Defense Aerospace Industry, Mark A. Lorell et al., RAND Corporation, 2002
Troubled Partnership: A History of U.S.-Japan Collaboration on the FS-X Fighter, Transaction Publishers, 1996
Recent RAND Publications are listed here.
Recent Media Appearances
Interviews: Chicago Tribune; History Channel
To arrange an interview:
Contact the RAND Office of Media Relations, (703) 413-1100, x5117 or (310) 451-6913, or send an email to media@rand.org.
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