Patrick Mills is a senior operations researcher at the RAND Corporation, and a member of the Pardee RAND Graduate School faculty. At RAND, Mills has led a range of projects focused on Air Force logistics, basing, posture, Agile Combat Support, and the costs of these. He has developed methodologies and tools focused on Air Force deployment, airfield characteristics, and force sizing and shaping. Some of his recent and current work focuses on operational and support concepts to help the Air Force deploy and employ in more adaptive and agile ways. His work has included projects aimed at the resilience of installations, costs of overseas posture, improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the U.S. military distribution system, sustaining the AEF structure, sustaining the Global Positioning System, and estimating manpower requirements for stability operations. He recently led projects to enhance the operational resilience of the theater-wide posture of U.S. Air Forces, Europe (USAFE), and also of USAFE’s equipment prepositioning posture.