Heidi Peters is a policy researcher at RAND. Her research areas include Department of Defense (DoD) contracting statutory and regulatory authorities, DoD governance of major defense acquisition programs, defense industrial base policy, and the Defense Production Act of 1950. Before joining RAND, Peters worked as an analyst in U.S. defense acquisition policy with the Congressional Research Service. She began her career at a national security consulting firm supporting agency leadership and program management staff at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
M.S. in library & information science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; B.A. in international studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
