Career Center

RAND is seeking highly motivated researchers and experienced practitioners who would like to use their technical and domain expertise to directly impact government acquisition policy. The U.S. federal government spends hundreds of billions of dollars each year to acquire and sustain systems that support our national and homeland security. RAND System Acquisition Researchers conduct research that informs the policies and decisions surrounding acquisition strategy and operations. They lead and contribute to multidisciplinary project teams to analyze acquisition policy problems where the technical details matter. Acquisition research and analysis are carried out by four federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) that focus on U.S. national and homeland security polic