FC / NETWORK
Registry 01
Where Members Meet the Researchers
The RAND Network.
Seventy-five years of patient work, and a door held open for you.
Not a directory. Not consulting. A trusted way for members to reach seventy-five years of careful, evidence-based research, and the people who make it.
Classification
Research lineage
Sixteen fields · open
01 / METHODS
Methodological lineage
6 active records
M-01
Operations Research
Using math to make hard decisions when you can't try every option. RAND helped invent this in the 1940s.
1948
Open record →M-02
Scenario Planning
Instead of guessing one future, picture several and see which choices hold up across all of them. Herman Kahn's idea, now used by governments and big companies.
1950s
Open record →M-03
Delphi Method
Ask experts anonymously, share what they said, ask again. The anonymity stops the loudest voice from winning the room.
1959
Open record →M-04
Robust Decision Making
Pick the choice that works okay in thousands of possible futures, not the one that's perfect in the future you happen to expect.
2003
Open record →M-05
Structured Analytic Techniques
Pre-mortems, red teams, competing theories, simple drills that catch the mistakes smart people keep making.
1990s–
Open record →M-06
Continuous Evaluation
If a system keeps changing, you can't check it once and call it safe. You have to keep watching. The new doctrine for AI and other moving targets.
2020s
Open record →02 / DOMAINS
Sixteen fields
Cross-disciplinary index
03 / PEOPLE
Researcher registry
2 featured profiles
R-01
Dr. A. Vandermeer
What institutional forms can hold accountability for systems whose behavior exceeds their designers' comprehension?
Senior Fellow · AI Governance & Long-Horizon Risk
View profile →R-02
Prof. L. Okafor
How does the constitutional vocabulary of consent translate to systems no citizen meaningfully understands?
Constitutional Scholar · Democratic Accountability
View profile →04 / Introduction protocol
When all five line up, it reads less like a connection request and more like a quiet referral from someone you trust.