Lance Menthe is a senior physical scientist at RAND and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy. He also serves as the quality assurance manager for the RAND National Security Research Division. He works primarily on command and control, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance issues for the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army, including the use of artificial intelligence. Menthe is the lead developer of RAND's Systems and CONOPs Operational Effectiveness Model (SCOPEM), an agent-based model of air, ground, and space domains. Prior to joining RAND, Menthe received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Los Angeles, with a thesis on the physics of twisting conformations of DNA.
Ph.D. in physics, University of California, Los Angeles; M.S. in physics, University of California, Los Angeles; B.A. in physics, economics, University of California, Berkeley
