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