Lisa Pelled Colabella

Lisa Pelled Colabella is a Senior Operations Researcher at RAND. She is currently leading military logistics studies on the Army's global equipping strategy and on overhaul planning for Army vehicles. She is also contributing to research on Army aviation maintenance and readiness, support area operations, multi-component unit headquarters, and Enterprise Resource Planning data applications. Over the past 15 years, Colabella has conducted RAND studies for the Army on a variety of fleet management topics, sustainment performance metrics, logistics readiness center performance metrics, Army data quality, and Army equipment transparency in the budget and procurement process. Colabella also spent three years at the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, where she developed space system cost estimating guidance. Before joining RAND in 2000, Colabella served on the faculty of the University of Southern California, where she conducted studies in the field of organizational behavior and received the Department of Management and Organization's Excellence in Research Award.

Colabella holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, an M.S. in Operations Research from Stanford University, and a B.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia.