Sherrill Lingel

Sherrill Lingel is a senior engineer at the RAND Corporation, a member of the Pardee RAND Graduate School faculty, and was the first Project AIR FORCE Field Analyst at PACAF (2014-2016). She currently leads a PAF effort examining AI applications for multi-domain command and control. She has led studies on ISR capabilities for highly contested environments and UAS basing options for the PACOM AOR; she has also co-led studies on alternative space architectures for SSA and SATCOM and assuring beyond-line-of-sight communications for airborne ISR platforms. 

Lingel's previous work at RAND includes command and control in degraded communications environments; integrating ISR and strike in the planning, tasking, and assessment of operations; examining the tasking and employing of ISR assets for a range of conflicts; evaluating Global Hawk sensor upgrades for maritime surveillance missions; modeling and analysis related to aircraft survivability; and looking at the methodology employed by the military for collateral damage estimation and mitigation.  She has also studied the MANPAD threat to commercial aviation, analyzed ISR force requirements for small-scale contingencies and major theater campaigns, and participated in RAND’s lessons learned assessment of Operation Allied Force with regard to weapon employment and aircraft survivability.

Prior to joining RAND, Lingel worked for the Norwegian Institute for Water Research in Oslo, Norway. She has a background in modeling and simulation of air- and space-based systems and fluid dynamics, and she received her Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Washington.