Could the U.S. Navy Fleet of the Mid-21st Century Include Large Uncrewed Vehicles?
This paper explores how emerging uncrewed-vehicle capabilities could gradually shape the structure of the U.S. Navy's fleet from the 2020s through the 2070s.
Amanda Sari Perez is a Ph.D. student at the RAND School of Public Policy and an assistant policy researcher at RAND. She has an M.S. in biomedical engineering and an M.S. in engineering and technology innovation management from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. in neuroscience from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining Pardee RAND, she worked at the Open Learning Initiative, an open-source teaching, learning, and research platform at Carnegie Mellon University. She was previously a research associate at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon, where she conducted mixed-methods research to design, implement, and evaluate an online professional development community for high school teachers. Her research interests include workforce development, economic development, education access and reform, and alternative educational and workforce pathways.
M.S. in engineering and technology innovation management, Carnegie Mellon University; M.S. in biomedical engineering, Carnegie Mellon University; B.S. in neuroscience, University of Michigan