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Lara Schmidt

Senior Statistician

Santa Monica Office

Education

Ph.D., Statistics. American University, 2001

Fields

Risk analysis, time series analysis

Policy Areas

Navigation and timing, space systems, C4ISR

Recent Projects

  • Ensuring effective positioning, navigation, and timing for security applications
  • Balancing offensive and defensive counterspace
  • Taskable space systems
  • Space capabilities development
  • Implications of the heavy reliance on space

Previous/Other Positions

  • Mathematician, U.S. Naval Observatory, 1995-2003

Selected Publications

Improving GPS Situational Awareness - 2005

Proceedings of the Institute of Navigation National Technical Meeting, San Diego, CA
Schmidt, L., Hura, M.

The Allan Variance as an Estimator for the Long-Memory Parameter - 2004

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval (PTTI) Systems and Applications Meeting, Washington, DC.
Schmidt, L., Skinner, J.

Atomic Clock Models using Fractionally Integrated Noise Structures - 2003

Metrologia, 40(3)
Schmidt, L.

Fractional Difference Prewhitening in Atomic Clock Modeling - 2002

Proceedings of 34th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval (PTTI) Systems and Applications Meeting, Reston, VA
Schmidt, L., Ekstrom, C., Breakiron, L.
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