James S. Chow

James S. Chow is a senior engineer at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He currently serves as the Vice Chair of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. He has studied a variety of issues in the national defense and homeland security fields, from aircraft and weapons-related force planning issues to detailed modeling and simulation of aircraft and air defense interactions. He recently led an effort examining mixes of future long-range strike capabilities. Other recent research includes studying system trades improving aircraft survivability, electronic warfare, communications, cyber, looking at new roles for unmanned air vehicles, and examining the threat to commercial aviation from shoulder-fired missiles. Chow has developed and worked on several combat models to aid in the study of topics such as air defense, route planning for low observable aircraft, and mine countermeasures. He received his M.S. in aeronautics and astronautics and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.