# Jason Matheny **Entity class:** Person; national-security technology and research leader ## Definition **Jason Matheny** is president and chief executive officer of the [[wiki/RAND Corporation|RAND Corporation]]. His previous roles include director of [[wiki/IARPA|IARPA]], Assistant Director of National Intelligence, founding director of Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology, and White House work on technology and national security. His career also includes biosecurity, biotechnology, public health, forecasting, artificial intelligence, and advanced intelligence research. ## Why This Person Is Included Matheny's career crosses exactly the institutional boundaries this collection repeatedly discovers: [[wiki/Biosecurity|biosecurity]], biological risk, public health, AI, intelligence research, forecasting, emerging technology, and national-security decision support. Bryant McGill includes him because the same intellectually serious person can move among these domains precisely because they increasingly share predictive, uncertainty-management, and risk-governance architectures. The overlap is institutional and methodological. It establishes the coherence of the bridge among public health, WMD risk, AI, intelligence R&D, and prediction; it does not assign every Matheny project to a single operational mission. ## Relationships - **institutions:** [[wiki/IARPA|IARPA]], [[wiki/RAND Corporation|RAND Corporation]], and [[wiki/National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence|National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence]]. - **domains:** [[wiki/Biosecurity|Biosecurity]], [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]], [[wiki/Predictive Intelligence|Predictive Intelligence]], [[wiki/Emerging Technology|Emerging Technology]], and [[wiki/Dual-Use Technology|Dual-Use Technology]]. - **collection role:** cross-domain research neighbor in [[wiki/Intellectual Neighborhood of the Counterterrorism Collection|Intellectual Neighborhood of the Counterterrorism Collection]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [RAND Corporation, Annual Report 2022, leadership listing as of April 2023](https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/corporate_pubs/CPA1000/CPA1065-3/RAND_CPA1065-3.pdf). - [Georgetown CSET, “Jason Matheny”](https://cset.georgetown.edu/staff/jason-matheny/) (accessed 2026-09-23). - [IARPA, “Our People”](https://www.iarpa.gov/who-we-are/history/our-people) (accessed 2026-09-23). **As of:** 2026-09-23