Marta Kepe is a Senior Defense Analyst at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation where her work supports the U.S. Department of Defense. She is also a 2023 Irregular Warfare Fellow at the Irregular Warfare Initiative, Modern War Institute, USMA.

Marta’s work focuses on European defense, Russia, and great power competition and active measures in different regions of the world. Much of Marta’s work relates to understanding military and grey zone threats, the intersection of military and civilian words for building resilience against external occupation and grey zone threats, and to the generation of capabilities during a military crisis or war. Her recent work includes analyzing resilience and resistance in the Baltic states, and Ukraine, exploring great power competition in Africa and the global commons, and studying Allied, partner, and adversary technological strengths and capabilities. Her report on Baltic resilience preparations received RAND’s Innovation Spotlight Award in 2022.

Marta previously worked for RAND Europe, where she researched European future capability needs, military and civilian technological landscape, and multinational collaboration across military equipment life cycle. She has also worked for the Latvian Ministry of Defence on regional military cooperation and defense sector reform assistance, and the NATO Advisory Team in Kosovo. She received her MA in Security Studies from Georgetown University.