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RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. As a nonpartisan organization, RAND is widely respected for operating independent of political and commercial pressures. Our core values are quality and objectivity. We have earned our reputation for excellence and influence through our ...
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RAND, an independent, nonprofit institution, operates three...
- Annual Report
RAND's 2016 Annual Report describes the many ways in which...
- Jason Matheny
As 2023 draws to a close, RAND president and CEO Jason...
- History and Mission
On May 14, 1948, Project RAND—an organization formed...
- Rand at a Glance
Through more than 2,000 projects (including ~730 new ones in...
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The RAND Corporation is an American nonprofit global policy think tank, [ 1 ] research institute, and public sector consulting firm. RAND Corporation engages in research and development (R&D) in a number of fields and industries. Since the 1950s, RAND research has helped inform United States policy decisions on a wide variety of issues ...
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- The Who's Who of Rand
Rand rose out of the ashes of World War II. After witnessing the success of the Manhattan Project—the $2 billion initiative that created the first atomic bomb—a five-star Air Force general named Henry "Hap" Arnold concluded that America needed a team of great minds to keep the country's technology ahead of the rest of the world. In 1946, he gathere...
The Soviets had good reason to worry about RAND. In 1957, the Air Force hired the think tank to create spy satellites. Within two years, it developed CORONA—a covert system that aimed to send camera-carrying satellites into orbit on the backs of missiles. While the idea was genius, the design was flawed. It took 13 failed attempts before the system...
While RAND has played a major role in keeping America safe from military attacks and nuclear catastrophes, the think tank has also left its mark on the communications industry. RAND is directly responsible for packet switching, the technology that made the Internet possible.It all started in the 1960s, when the military asked RAND researchers to so...
During the 1960s, RAND also expanded its lines of investigation into education, welfare reform, and criminal justice. By the time Richard Nixon took office in 1969, the think tank was an established, independent source for social policy research. So, when the issue of medical insurance sparked a great national debate, Nixon tapped RAND for ideas. A...
Health care was just the beginning of RAND's expansion into the social sciences. Although 50 percent of RAND's current $223 million budget still comes from federal funding, much of that goes toward non-defense work. The think tank currently employs close to 1,000 researchers, who spend their time analyzing everything from renewable energy and obesi...
John Nash: RAND was the motherland of game theory during the 1950s and 1960s, and among its most prominent players was John Nash—the soulful subject of the book and movie A Beautiful Mind. Nash came up with what is now called the Nash equilibrium, which is used to determine the stability of competition. Thomas Schelling: Schelling was an economist ...
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On May 14, 1948, Project RAND—an organization formed immediately after World War II to connect military planning with research and development decisions—separated from the Douglas Aircraft Company of Santa Monica, California, and became an independent, nonprofit organization. Adopting its name from a contraction of the term research and ...
Through more than 2,000 projects (including ~730 new ones in 2023), RAND provides research services, systematic analysis, and innovative thinking to a global clientele. 977New Publications. Last year, we added 607 reports and 370 journal articles to our growing digital library, all of which can be accessed at rand.org.
Sep 29, 2024 · RAND Corporation, nonpartisan think tank whose original focus was national security. It grew out of a research-and-development project (its name is a contraction of “research and development”) by Douglas Aircraft Co. for the Army Air Force in 1945. In 1948 it became a private nonprofit corporation.
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