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Registry 01 · Researcher
Dr. Bryan Clark
Seventy-five years of patient work, and a door held open for you.
Maritime operations and autonomous systems.
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Research lineage
Introductions by invitation
Senior Defense Analyst
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Dr. Bryan Clark is a researcher in Futurecraft's RAND Network, the world's most trusted intellectual access layer, anchored in 75 years of RAND policy methodology and continuously verified against primary sources (last verified 2026-06-05).
Senior Defense Analyst (Hudson Institute, with deep RAND-adjacent collaboration). Former Navy submarine officer and special assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations; leads work on maritime operations and undersea autonomy.
Their work spans 1 research domain on Futurecraft, Defense, and connects to live Question Networks, Strategic Salons, and Research-to-Reality opportunities organized around those domains.
Biography
Senior Defense Analyst (Hudson Institute, with deep RAND-adjacent collaboration). Former Navy submarine officer and special assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations; leads work on maritime operations and undersea autonomy.
Research Domains
Key Work
- , Reports on distributed maritime operations and the future fleet
- , Studies on undersea warfare and autonomous platforms
- , Force-design analyses for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps
Suggested Collaboration Questions
- What does a fleet optimized for human-machine teaming actually look like, and what does the Navy give up to build it?
- Where is undersea dominance most fragile, and how is it recovered?
- Which acquisition pathologies most constrain the Navy's ability to field new platforms?
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