Martin Libicki

Martin Libicki (Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley) has been a senior management scientist at RAND since 1998, focusing on the impacts of information technology on domestic and national security. This work is documented in commercially published books, Conquest in Cyberspace: National Security and Information Warfare, and Information Technology Standards: Quest for the Common Byte as well as in numerous monographs, notably Cyber-Deterrence and Cyber-War, What is Information Warfare, The Mesh and the Net: Speculations on Armed Conflict in a Time of Free Silicon, and Who Runs What in the Global Information Grid.

He was also the editor of the RAND textbook, New Challenges New Tools for Defense Decisionmaking. His most recent assignments were on the subjects of organizing the Air Force for cyber-war, exploiting cell phones in counter-insurgency, developing a post-9/11 information technology strategy for the U.S. Department of Justice, using biometrics for identity management, assessing DARPA’s Terrorist Information Awareness program, conducting information security analysis for the FBI, and evaluating In-Q-Tel.

Prior employment includes 12 years at the National Defense University, three years on the Navy Staff as program sponsor for industrial preparedness, and three years as a policy analyst for the GAO's Energy and Minerals Division. He has also received a master's degree in city planning from U.C. Berkeley (1974).