Jason E. Thomas, Ph.D.
Dr. Jason Thomas is the vice president and director of CNA’s Operational Warfighting Division, and the director of CNA’s Operations Evaluation Group. He has wide-ranging experience in systems analysis and operations research, working on such issues as preparedness assessments, warfighting requirements, operational evaluations, formal IT development, and intelligence fusion.
Previously, as the CNA field analyst to US Air Force A2 Field Support Office, he developed recommendations to improve US intelligence ability to perform predictive battlespace awareness and assess supporting ISR technologies. In other work over a long career at CNA, Dr. Thomas has conducted research and analysis for the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA); the University of Michigan’s Brehm Center for Type 1 Diabetes; Naval Air Systems Command; Naval Special Warfare Command; Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; Commander Carrier Strike Group Seven; and the Federal Aviation Administration. He has also authored numerous reports for Congress, including legislatively mandated queries and Questions for the Record (QFRs) in response to congressional testimony.
Dr. Thomas earned a PhD in chemistry from the University of California Los Angeles and a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the University of Akron. At Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, he participated in the Senior Executives in National and International Security program. In 2005 he received the US Navy Meritorious Public Service Award, and in 2011 he received CNA’s Phil E. DePoy Award for Analytical Excellence.
