Patrick Mills

Patrick Mills

Senior Operations Researcher, RAND; Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy

Patrick Mills is a senior operations researcher at RAND. Mills has led a range of projects focused on military logistics and basing, the costs of posture, and organizational design and effectiveness. He has developed methodologies and tools focused on Air Force deployment, airfield characteristics, and force sizing and shaping. Some of his recent and current work focuses on the costs of Army posture in Europe and campaign planning and assessment. His work has included projects aimed at the resilience of installations, costs of overseas posture, improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the U.S. military distribution system. He recently led a project to improve the the Space Force's sustainment system and another to compare damage costs against resilience investment costs for climate-driven natural hazards.  

Education

B.A. and M.S. in industrial engineering, Texas Tech

Languages

German

Selected Work

  • Mills, Patrick, Rachel Costello, Shawn Cochran, John G. Drew, Beth Grill, Marta Kepe, and Brandon Krueger, Improving Partner Interoperability for U.S. Air Forces in Europe: Base Operating Support and Airfield Recovery, RAND Corporation (RR-A3161-1), 2025
  • Mills, Patrick, James A. Leftwich, John G. Drew, Daniel P. Felten, Josh Girardini, John P. Godges, Michael J. Lostumbo, Anu Narayanan, Kristin Van Abel, Jonathan W. Welburn, and Anna Jean Wirth, Building Agile Combat Support Competencies to Enable Evolving Adaptive Basing Concepts, (RR-4200), 2020
  • Mills, Patrick, James A. Leftwich, Kristin Van Abel, and Jason Mastbaum, Estimating Air Force Deployment Requirements for Lean Force Packages: A Methodology and Decision Support Tool Prototype, RAND Corporation (RR-1855-AF), 2017
  • Lostumbo, Michael J., Michael J. McNerney, Eric Peltz, Derek Eaton, David R. Frelinger, Victoria A. Greenfield, John Halliday, Patrick Mills, Bruce R. Nardulli, Stacie L. Pettyjohn, Jerry M. Sollinger, and Stephen M. Worman, Overseas Basing of U.S. Military Forces: An Assessment of Relative Costs and Strategic Benefits, RAND Corporation (RR-201-OSD), 2013
  • Narayanan, Anu, Patrick Mills, Tobias Sytsma, Kelly Klima, and Rahim Ali, How Can DoD Compare Damage Costs Against Resilience Investment Costs for Climate-Driven Natural Hazards? Overview of an Analytic Approach, Its Advantages, and Its Limitations, RAND Corporation (RR-A1860-1), 2023
  • Mills, Patrick, Muharrem Mane, Kenneth Kuhn, Anu Narayanan, James D. Powers, Peter Buryk, Jeremy M. Eckhause, John G. Drew, and Kristin F. Lynch, Articulating the Effects of Infrastructure Resourcing on Air Force Missions: Competing Approaches to Inform the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System, RAND Corporation (RR-1578-AF), 2017
  • Mills, Patrick, John G. Drew, John A. Ausink, Daniel M. Romano, and Rachel Costello, Balancing Agile Combat Support Manpower to Better Meet the Future Security Environment, RAND Corporation (RR-337-AF), 2014
  • Lynch, Christopher, Rachel Costello, Jacob L. Heim, Andrew Karode, Patrick Mills, Robert S. Tripp, and Alan J. Vick, Operational Imperative: Investing Wisely to Bolster U.S. Air Bases Against Chinese and Russian Attacks, RAND Corporation (PE-A1996-1), 2023

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