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The Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) is a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) focusing on defense issues.
Centers
IDA maintains its headquarters at 4850 Mark Center Drive in Alexandria, Virginia. IDA also maintains several satellite offices.
Divisions
- Cost Analysis and Research Division (CARD)
- Information Technology and Systems Division (ITSD)
- Joint Advanced Warfighting Program (JAWP)
- Operational Evaluation Division (OED)
- Science and Technology Division (STD)
- Strategy, Forces and Resources Division (SFRD)
- System Evaluation Division (SED)
Work
IDA's work is primarily in producing studies and analyses for the federal government of the United States on defense issues, generally requiring a high degree of scientific or technical expertise. IDA works only on projects sponsored by the U.S. federal government. The vast majority of IDA's sponsors are Department of Defense or Department of Homeland Security agencies and offices, though a small portion of IDA's work comes from the Department of Energy.
Staff
IDA's staff is comprised of research staff and administrative staff.
Characteristics of the research staff:
Degrees:
- Doctoral: 61%
- Master's: 30%
- Bachelor's: 9%
- Math, Statistics, and Operations Research: 27%
- Engineering: 21%
- Physical Sciences and Life Sciences: 20%
- Economics, Social Sciences, Political Science: 14%
- Computer Science: 11%
- Business Administration, Management, Humanities: 6%
- Other: 1%
External links
"Institute for Defense Analyses"