Carter Price and Heidi Peters

Carter C. Price is co-director of the Center for Scalable Computing and Analysis, research quality assurance manager for the Homeland Security Research Division, and a senior mathematician at the RAND Corporation. Some of his major projects include work on the COMPARE microsimulation model to study the impact of health care reform, assessments of terrorism risk models, analyses of defense budgets, and studies of acquisition policies. He has also studied predictive policing and assessments of forest fire fighting capabilities. His project leadership experience includes studies of the macroeconomic impact of the Affordable Care Act on states, issues related to immigration fraud, trends in economic inequality, and analytic support for the Commonwealth of Virginia on COVID-19. Price has submitted testimony to the U.S. Congress and testified in front of state legislatures. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, CNN, USA Today, and the New Republic. He has a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a B.A. in mathematics and physics from Hendrix College. Heidi Peters is a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. Her research areas include Department of Defense (DoD) contracting statutory and regulatory authorities; DoD governance of major defense acquisition programs; defense industrial base matters; and the Defense Production Act of 1950. Before joining RAND, Peters worked as an analyst in U.S. defense acquisition policy with the Congressional Research Service. She began her career at a national security consulting firm supporting agency leadership and program management staff at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).