Jordan Willcox

Senior Defense Analyst

Off Site Office

Education

B.A. in international relations, Connecticut College; M.A. in security studies, Georgetown University

Overview

Jordan Willcox is a senior defense analyst at the RAND Corporation. At RAND, he has participated in research and analysis concerning ISR, Military & Civilian Communications Networks, Political Economy, and the Social Science of technological development. Before joining RAND in August 2015, Willcox researched, designed, tested, instantiated, developed scenarios for, and employed simulations of institutional decision-making and of population political, military and cognitive responses to conflict. Prior to that, at NDU and in his graduate work, he assessed DoD and non-DoD R&D bureaucracies, intra-societal violent and non-violent conflict, and the incorporation of technological change into military TT&P. He is interested in hierarchical dynamics, the sociology of R&D, analysis of the military consequences of technological development, and computational social science.

Research Focus

Selected Publications

Gordon, John IV, Igor Mikolic-Torreira, D. Sean Barnett, Katharina Ley Best, Scott Boston, Dan Madden, Danielle C. Tarraf, and Jordan Willcox, Army Fires Capabilities for 2025 and Beyond, RAND Corporation (RR-2124-A), 2019

Mazarr, Michael J., Astrid Stuth Cevallos, Miranda Priebe, Andrew Radin, Kathleen Reedy, Alexander D. Rothenberg, Julia A. Thompson, and Jordan Willcox, Measuring the Health of the Liberal International Order, RAND Corporation (RR-1994-OSD), 2017

Languages

French

Commentary

Economic Instability Endangers Democracy
The Western political community is retreating from its own institutions. The problem stems from the fact that the health of democracies is crucially dependent on their economic growth rate.
Dec 16, 2017
The National Interest

Publications

Report
Improving Integration and Synchronization of Space Acquisition and Fielding
The authors of this research explored ways the United States Space Force can facilitate the integration and synchronization of space acquisition and fielding to support the delivery of end-to-end space capabilities to outpace adversary threats.
Aug 31, 2023
Commentary
America's 5G Era: Gaining Competitive Advantages While Securing the Country and Its People
Researchers assessing the fifth-generation (5G) wireless ecosystem found important implications of 5G-era devices, networks, and services for securing data and protecting individual privacy.
May 24, 2021
Report
Army Fires Capabilities for 2025 and Beyond
To assist the Army in its reorientation toward conventional combat operations, the authors of this report identify capability gaps in the field artillery and actions that the Army should consider taking from today to roughly 2030.
Dec 3, 2019
Report
Measuring the Health of the Liberal International Order
As part of a larger study on the future of the post-World War II liberal international order, RAND researchers analyze the health of the existing order and offer implications for future U.S. policy.
Sep 5, 2017