Institute for Defense Analyses

The Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA ) is a founded in 1956, non-profit organization, the three state-supported research centers ( and think tanks, Federal Funded Research and Development Centers, FFRDC ) operated for scientific advice to the U.S. government in matters of national security. Its headquarters is in Alexandria ( Virginia). There is also its largest research center, the IDA Studies and Analyses Center (SAC ). The Science and Technology Policy Institute ( STPI ) in Washington, DC directly advises the Office of Science and Technology Policy of the U.S. president. The IDA Center for Communications and Computing is working with the National Security Agency 's (NSA) - so it works especially in cryptography - and is based in Princeton and La Jolla. Another site is located in Bowie (Maryland).

In the main center in Alexandria include, without limitation following departments located:

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

Most studies are created for the Department of Defense and the General Staff. But they also worked among others for the Department of Homeland Security, CIA, NASA and the FBI. The IDA had approximately 1,300 employees in 2002, including many scientists from different disciplines ( biologists, economists, mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, etc.). Examples are Keith Brueckner and James Simons.

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

1990 to 2003 and from 2006 the retired Air Force General Larry D. Welch is the President. Until 1990 he was Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force. In 2002 she was funded by the Department of Defense through contracts with $ 145 million.

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