Jan Osburg is a senior engineer at the RAND Corporation. His work focuses on aerospace, defense, and homeland security. Recent projects involved assessing next-generation launch vehicles, space rescue, cislunar grand strategy, planetary defense, researching sUAS and counter-UAS technologies, developing resistance-based defense strategies for the Baltic states, and mitigating the North Korean nuclear threat. He has spent significant time as an embedded advisor in Iraq and Afghanistan—six months with MNF-I in Baghdad in 2009, three months with CFSOCC-A in Kabul in 2010, and two months with the Asymmetric Warfare Group in Bagram in 2013.
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