Staff Bios
Lara Schmidt 
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Senior Statistician
Santa Monica Office
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Education
Ph.D., Statistics. American University, 2001
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Fields
Risk analysis, time series analysis
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Policy Areas
Navigation and timing, space systems, C4ISR
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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.