Michelle Ziegler is a senior technical analyst working with the Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS). She has an extensive background with quantitative and qualitative analyses, methodology development, and a robust publication history. Ziegler’s work ranges from tactical level detailed analysis and relationship building, to development and evaluation of current and proposed strategy and the resulting impacts and alternatives. At RAND Ziegler has worked on topics ranging from Army watercraft sustainment challenges, modeling counter UAS capabilities, budget analyses, deep dives into SIGINT capabilities of the Air Force, to personnel requirements for Navy cyber billets, as well as capabilities and logistics challenges facing Army Prepositioned Stock. For the Homeland Security Operational and Analysis Center (HSOAC), Ziegler has done strategic foresight, strategic gaming, capability and capacity analyses for the U.S. Coast Guard surface and aviation fleets, developing frameworks and strategies for Chief Data Officer development, and a variety of disaster response projects for FEMA. Additionally, she serves as subject matter expert and processes reviewer for the Joint Requirements Council. At the Institute of Human and Machine Cognition, Ziegler's main focuses were sensory substitution for wounded servicemembers and designing and modeling a fractal hierarchy control system for UAVs. In the Software Acquisition and Process Department at the Aerospace Corporation, she handled metrics analysis, researched new data mining techniques for deficiency report analysis, and analyzed the software development plans for compliance with the DoD and ISO standards.
B.S. in astronomy/physics, University of Hawaii; M.S. in astronomy/physics, James Cook University
