Institute for Defense Analyzes

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The Institute for Defense Analyzes (IDA) is a non-profit organization founded in 1956 that operates three federally funded research centers (and think tanks , Federal Funded Research and Development Centers , FFRDC) to provide scientific advice to the US government on national security issues. Its headquarters are in Alexandria, Virginia . There is also their largest research center, the IDA Studies and Analyzes Center (SAC). The Science and Technology Policy Institute (STPI) in Washington, DC advises directly the Office of Science and Technology Policy of the US President . The IDA Center for Communications and Computing works with the National Security Agency (NSA) - it works primarily in cryptography - and is based in Princeton and La Jolla . Another location is in Bowie, Maryland .

The following departments are located in the main center in Alexandria:

  • Cost Analysis and Research Division (CARD)
  • Information Technology and Systems Division (ITSD)
  • Intelligence Analysis Division (IAD)
  • Joint Advanced Warfighting Division (JAWD)
  • Operational Evaluation Division (OED)
  • Science and Technology Division (STD)
  • Strategy, Forces and Resources Division (SFRD)
  • System Evaluation Division (SED)

Most of the studies produced are for the Ministry of Defense and General Staff. But you also worked for the Department of Homeland Security , CIA , NASA and the FBI . In 2002, the IDA had around 1,300 employees, including numerous scientists from a wide variety of disciplines (biologists, economists, mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, etc.). Examples are Keith Brueckner , Leonard E. Baum, and James Simons .

The IDA has its origins in 1947 by Defense Secretary James Forrestal launched Weapons System Evaluation Group (WSEG). The immediate reason for the establishment in 1956 was a request from the Chief of Staff to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to establish such a civil organization.

Retired Air Force General Larry D. Welch is president from 1990 to 2003 and from 2006 . Until 1990 he was Chief of Staff of the US Air Force. In 2002 they were funded by the Department of Defense through contracts worth $ 145 million.

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