Senior Operations Researcher; Director, PAF Fellows Program; Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
Brien Alkire is a senior operations researcher at RAND and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy. He leads and conducts research on national security space, JADC2, electronic warfare, and the security and policy implications of artificial intelligence, including as co-author of a RAND survey of advances in artificial intelligence. He developed the C2R2 tabletop-exercise methodology for assessing command-and-control risk and resilience, now used across multiple FFRDCs, and has led wargaming efforts including the Plan Blue series. He serves as director, PAF Fellows in RAND Project AIR FORCE, and previously served as associate and acting program director. He has authored more than sixty peer-reviewed RAND reports and twenty Department of the Air Force 1-pagers, and has served on eight dissertation committees. Prior to RAND, Alkire developed systems, software, and circuits for defense and commercial applications. Trained as an algorithm designer, Alkire's academic concentrations were optimization, signal processing, and communications. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he has also served as a lecturer.
Ph.D. in electrical engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
