Maria C. Lytell

Maria C. Lytell

Senior Behavioral and Social Scientist

Maria Lytell is a senior behavioral scientist at RAND. Her work focuses on military personnel topics with recent examples including airminded warrior development in the U.S. Air Force, addressing well-being among U.S. Army recruiters, and workforce requirements for select Department of Defense workforces. She previously served as Associate Director of the Personnel, Training, and Health Program in the RAND Arroyo Center and as a member on The National Academies of Sciences' Committee on the Consideration of Generational Issues in Workforce Management and Employment Practices. She earned her master's degree and Ph.D. in industrial-organizational psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Education

Ph.D. in industrial-organizational psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Selected Work

  • Lytell, Maria C., Mark Toukan, Angela K. Clague, James Fan, Vikram Kilambi, Brandon Krueger, Sankalp Kumar, Anthony Lawrence, Nicolas M. Robles, Lewis Schneider, Karen M. Sudkamp, Sarah Weilant, and Katie A. Wilson, Developing Combat Support Mission Ready Airmen for Agile Combat Employment, RAND Corporation (RR-A3169-1), 2025
  • Lytell, Maria C., Sean Robson, John A. Ausink, Barbara Bicksler, Grace Falgoust, Chaitra M. Hardison, Devon Hill, Annie Yu Kleiman, and Mark Toukan, Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Air Force Enlisted Skills Management System: Recommended Changes to Meet Future Demands, RAND Corporation (RR-A2323-1), 2024
  • Gehlhaus, Diana, Maria C. Lytell, James Ryseff, and Kirsten M. Keller, Keeping Up with the Joneses: How Can DoD Address Its Technical Talent Shortage?RAND Corporation (PT-A2884-3), 2023
  • Keller, Kirsten M., Maria C. Lytell, and Shreyas Bharadwaj, Personnel Needs for Department of the Air Force Digital Talent: A Case Study of Software Factories, RAND Corporation (RR-A550-1), 2022
  • Robson, Sean, Maria C. Lytell, Matthew Walsh, Kimberly Curry Hall, Kirsten M. Keller, Vikram Kilambi, Joshua Snoke, Jonathan W. Welburn, Patrick S. Roberts, Owen Hall, and Louis T. Mariano, U.S. Air Force Enlisted Classification and Reclassification: Potential Improvements Using Machine Learning and Optimization Models, RAND Corporation (RR-A284-1), 2022
  • Lytell, Maria C., Kimberly Curry Hall, and Nelson Lim, Improving U.S. Military Accession Medical Screening Systems, RAND Corporation (RR-2780-OSD), 2019
  • Lytell, Maria C., Sean Robson, David Schulker, Tracy C. Krueger, Miriam Matthews, Louis T. Mariano, and Albert A. Robbert, Training Success for U.S. Air Force Special Operations and Combat Support Specialties: An Analysis of Recruiting, Screening, and Development Processes, RAND Corporation (RR-2002-AF), 2018
  • Lytell, Maria C., Susan G. Straus, Chad C. Serena, Geoffrey E. Grimm, James L. Doty III, Jennie W. Wenger, Andrea M. Abler, Andrew M. Naber, Clifford A. Grammich, and Eric S. Fowler, Assessing Competencies and Proficiency of Army Intelligence Analysts Across the Career Life Cycle, RAND Corporation (RR-1851-A), 2017

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