Andrew J. Osgood

Email: drew@andrewosgood.com San Diego, CA


I specialize in bringing order and creative data-driven solutions to unstructured problems throughout a wide range of both DoD and scientific areas, thanks to more than a decade of experience in research and analysis.

Experience

DoD - related
Research
Writing/Teaching

Education

Graduate Studies
Undergraduate Studies
Personal

What I do

I’ve worked in a lab, studying and manipulating individual atoms and molecules at temperatures from near absolute zero to hundreds of degrees, in vacuum conditions cleaner than any bit of outer space from here to moon and beyond. I’ve developed and fabricated experiments that took months to design, and weeks bent over a bench to build, only to watch it fail within moments of testing on an apparatus I helped create. Then I’ve done it again and again and again, correcting weaknesses and flaws until it finally worked. I’ve written and published papers based on those successes, and failures. I’ve remained dedicated to projects through the tough times when years of results were invalidated, labs were flooded, and collaborators stopped collaborating. I’ve seen those seemingly impossible projects through to fruition.

I’ve also worked in offices, on ships, in tents, and out of various militarty bases around the world on concerns and issues that the Navy and Marine Corps often has trouble defining. I’ve walked into the Pentagon with no more than a few months’ experience and briefed a two-star admiral on a project I had only recently taken over, resulting in crucial changes to how people thought and talked about the issue. I’ve been a part of team studies involving more than twenty other analysts, and also directed a few smaller projects on my own that help inform billion-dollar acquisition decisions. I’ve driven ten hours through the night to an unknown destination so I could ride a hovercraft to an amphibious ship to collect and record operational data for an unknown length of time. I’ve traveled to various commands around the world to talk to and interview everyone from enlisted to flag level, contractors to SES, just so I could learn enough about a topic to ask the right questions. I’ve worked directly with a Navy command for a two-star admiral, acting as objective advisor and analyst, and as just another seat in a three number N-code. I’ve designed data collection, reconstruction, and analysis plans for multi-national exercises whose results are reported to the CNO. I proposed, organized, designed, and directed a multi-command collaboration for the operational test and evaluation of aging systems to determine future concepts of employment.

I started with no appreciable experience in this field, and worked through on-the-job experience and self-directed training to become a subject matter expert in fewer than two years. I believe I can do a little bit of anything, but within a short amount of time, can learn to do a lot, better.

- Drew

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