A Leader's Guide to Interoperability
This brief summarizes RAND’s research on interoperability, provides guidance for military leaders to institute policies that prioritize interoperability, and explains how to include partners and monitor progress.
Angela O'Mahony
Chair, RAND Human Subjects Protection Committee; Senior Political Scientist, RAND; Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
Expertise
Angela (Angel) O'Mahony is chair of RAND's Human Subjects Protection Committee, a senior political scientist, and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy.
O'Mahony has led RAND research projects examining homeland defense, air and missile defense, force posture, military exercises, security cooperation, multinational interoperability, public support for terrorism, biosurveillance systems, and building support within organizations for change. Methodologically, she has led work on computational social-behavioral modelling for complex environments, and uncertainty-sensitive approaches to understanding decisionmaking. Other projects included work on the national security implications of virtual currency and the integration of women into special operations forces. She was the inaugural winner of RAND's Innovation Award in 2015 for her work on incorporating social media in public policy analysis.
O'Mahony co-edited Social-Behavioral Modeling for Complex Systems, a volume that grew out of DARPA-funded RAND research. She has published more than a dozen articles in top academic journals examining the implications of international political and economic scrutiny on governments' decisionmaking, the causes and consequences of transnational political behavior, and modeling complex social systems.
O'Mahony teaches courses on policymaking in complex environments and international security.
Prior to joining RAND, O'Mahony was an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia, where she taught courses on international political economy and economic statecraft. A native Angelena, she received her Ph.D. in political science from UC San Diego and her B.A. in economics and political science from UCLA.
Education
Ph.D. in political science, University of California, San Diego; B.A. in economics, University of California, Los Angeles
Selected Work
- Paul K. Davis, Angela O'Mahony and Jonathan Pfautz, eds., Social-Behavioral Modeling for Complex Systems, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2019
- Angela O'Mahony, "Political Investment: Remittances and Elections," British Journal of Political Science, 2013
- Angela O'Mahony, "Engineering Good Times: Fiscal Manipulation in a Global Economy," British Journal of Political Science, 41(2), 2011
- Susan D. Hyde and Angela O'Mahony, "International Scrutiny and Pre-Electoral Fiscal Manipulation in Developing Countries," Journal of Politics, 72(2), 2010
- Watts, Stephen, Angela O'Mahony, Bryan Rooney, Maggie Habib, Patrick Mills, Samuel Absher, and Hitoshi Kumagai, Assessing the Value of Overseas Military Campaigning in Strategic Competition, RAND Corporation (RR-A1798-1), 2023
- Pernin, Christopher G., Angela O'Mahony, Gene Germanovich, and Matthew Lane, Chasing Multinational Interoperability: Benefits, Objectives, and Strategies, RAND Corporation (RR-3068-A), 2020
- Priebe, Miranda, Angela O'Mahony, Bryan Frederick, Alyssa Demus, Bonny Lin, Michelle Grisé, Derek Eaton, and Abby Doll, Operational Unpredictability and Deterrence: Evaluating Options for Complicating Adversary Decisionmaking, RAND Corporation (RR-A448-1), 2021
- O'Mahony, Angela, Ilana Blum, Gabriela Armenta, Nicholas E. Burger, Joshua Mendelsohn, Michael J. McNerney, Steven W. Popper, Jefferson P. Marquis, and Thomas S. Szayna, Assessing, Monitoring, and Evaluating Army Security Cooperation: A Framework for Implementation, RAND Corporation (RR-2165-A), 2018
Authored by Angela O'Mahony
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