Laurinda L. Rohn is a senior policy researcher at RAND. Her research areas include national security, security cooperation, homeland security, requirements and acquisition processes, strategy and resources, military operations, doctrine, force structure, and resource allocation. Prior to joining RAND, Rohn was with the Congressional Budget Office, where she analyzed issues such as Army and Marine Corps force structure and weapon systems, peacekeeping operations, base realignment and closure, and conventional arms control. While at the Federal Aviation Administration, she led a team of systems engineers that developed a long-range plan for the evolution of the nationwide air traffic control system.
Earlier in her career, Rohn served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense's Program Analysis and Evaluation (PA&E) office (now OSD/CAPE). She led PA&E's effort to project the defense budget into the future and identify possible areas of concern, such as block obsolescence of equipment, funding shortfalls and irregularities, long-term affordability, and equipment aging and shortfalls. She also spent several months on the OSD delegation to the Conventional Forces in Europe arms control treaty talks in Vienna. Before her time in the Pentagon, she worked at RAND on conventional balance, conventional arms control, and strategic defense issues, and in Northrop's Advanced Avionics Engineering Department. She received a Ph.D. in public policy analysis from the RAND School of Public Policy, and a B.S. in mathematics and computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Ph.D. in public policy analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School; B.S. in mathematics and computer science, University of California, Los Angeles
