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RAND Corporation

January 01, 1970

Not to be confused with American Research and Development Corporation, Remington Rand, Ingersoll Rand, or Sperry Rand.
"RAND" redirects here. For other uses, see Rand (disambiguation).

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) across multiple fields and industries. Since the 1950s, RAND research has helped inform United States policy decisions on a wide variety of issues, including the space race, the Vietnam War, the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms confrontation, the creation of the Great Society social welfare programs, and national health care.

RAND Corporation


Headquarters in Santa Monica
PredecessorSpin-off of Project RAND, a former partnership between Douglas Aircraft Company and the United States Air Force until incorporation as a nonprofit and gaining independence from both.
FormationMay 14, 1948; 75 years ago (1948-05-14)
Founders
TypeGlobal policy think tank, research institute, and public sector consulting firm[1]
95-1958142
Legal statusNonprofit corporation
Purpose
HeadquartersSanta Monica, California, U.S.
Coordinates34°00′35″N 118°29′26″W / 34.009599°N 118.490670°W / 34.009599; -118.490670
Region
Worldwide
President and CEO
Jason Gaverick Matheny[2]
RAND Leadership
  • Jennifer Gould
  • Andrew R. Hoehn
  • Mike Januzik
  • Eric Peltz
  • Melissa Rowe
  • Robert M. Case[2]
President, RAND Europe
Hans Pung[2]
SubsidiariesRAND Europe
Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School
AffiliationsIndependent
Revenue
$390 million (2023)[4]
DisbursementsNumerous
Expenses $427 million (2023)[5]
Endowment$288.7 million (2023)[6]
Staff
1,900 (2023)[7]
Websitewww.rand.org

The RAND Corporation originated as "Project RAND" (from the phrase "research and development") in the postwar period immediately after World War II.[8][9] The United States Army Air Forces established Project RAND with the objective of investigating long-range planning of future weapons.[10] Douglas Aircraft Company was granted a contract to research intercontinental warfare.[10] Project RAND later evolved into the RAND Corporation, and expanded its research into civilian fields such as education and international affairs.[11] It was the first think tank to be regularly referred to as a "think tank".[1]

RAND receives both public and private funding. Its funding sources include the U.S. government, private endowments,[12] corporations,[13] universities,[13] charitable foundations, U.S. state and local governments, international organizations, and to a small extent, by foreign governments.[13][14]

Overview edit

RAND has approximately 1,850 employees. Its American locations include: Santa Monica, California (headquarters); Arlington, Virginia; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Boston, Massachusetts.[15] The RAND Gulf States Policy Institute has an office in New Orleans, Louisiana. RAND Europe is located in Cambridge, United Kingdom; Brussels, Belgium; and Rotterdam, Netherlands.[16] RAND Australia is located in Canberra, Australia.[17]

RAND is home to the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School, one of eight original graduate programs in public policy and the first to offer a PhD. The program aims to provide practical experience for students, who work with RAND analysts on addressing real-world problems. The campus is at RAND's Santa Monica research facility. The Pardee RAND School is the world's largest PhD-granting program in policy analysis.[18]

Unlike many other programs, all Pardee RAND Graduate School students receive fellowships to cover their education costs. This allows them to dedicate their time to engage in research projects and provides them with on-the-job training.[18] RAND also offers a number of internship and fellowship programs allowing students and others to assist in conducting research for RAND projects. Most of these are short-term independent projects mentored by a RAND staff member.[19]

RAND publishes the RAND Journal of Economics, a peer-reviewed journal of economics.[20]

Thirty-two recipients of the Nobel Prize, primarily in the fields of economics and physics, have been associated with RAND at some point in their career.[21][22]

History edit

Project RAND edit

RAND was created after individuals in the War Department, the Office of Scientific Research and Development, and industry began to discuss the need for a private organization to connect operational research with research and development decisions.[19] The immediate impetus for the creation of RAND was a fateful conversation in September 1945 between General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold and Douglas executive Franklin R. Collbohm.[23] Both men were deeply worried that ongoing demobilization meant the federal government was about to lose direct control of the vast amount of American scientific brainpower assembled to fight World War II.[23]

As soon as Arnold realized Collbohm had been thinking along similar lines, he said, "I know just what you're going to tell me. It's the most important thing we can do."[24] With Arnold's blessing, Collbohm quickly pulled in additional people from Douglas to help, and together with Donald Douglas, they convened with Arnold two days later at Hamilton Army Airfield to sketch out a general outline for Collbohm's proposed project.[24]

Douglas engineer Arthur Emmons Raymond came up with the name Project RAND, from "research and development".[8] Collbohm suggested that he himself should serve as the project's first director, which he thought would be a temporary position while he searched for a permanent replacement for himself.[8] He later became RAND's first president and served in that capacity until his retirement in 1967.[25]

On 1 October 1945, Project RAND was set up under special contract to the Douglas Aircraft Company and began operations in December 1945.[19][26] In May 1946, the Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship was released.

RAND Corporation edit

By late 1947, Douglas Aircraft executives had expressed their concerns that their close relationship with RAND might create conflict of interest problems on future hardware contracts. In February 1948, the chief of staff of the newly created United States Air Force approved the evolution of Project RAND into a nonprofit corporation, independent of Douglas.[19]

On 14 May 1948, RAND was incorporated as a nonprofit corporation under the laws of the State of California and on 1 November 1948, the Project RAND contract was formally transferred from the Douglas Aircraft Company to the RAND Corporation.[19] Initial capital for the spin-off was provided by the Ford Foundation.

Since the 1950s, RAND research has helped inform United States policy decisions on a wide variety of issues, including the space race, the Vietnam War, the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms confrontation, the creation of the Great Society social welfare programs, the digital revolution, and national health care.[27] In the 1970s the Rand Corporation adjusted computer models it was using to recommend closures of fire stations in New York City so that fire stations were closed in the most fire-prone areas, home to Black and Puerto Rican residents, rather than in wealthier, more affluent neighborhoods.[28]

RAND contributed to the doctrine of nuclear deterrence by mutually assured destruction (MAD), developed under the guidance of then-Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and based upon their work with game theory.[29] Chief strategist Herman Kahn also posited the idea of a "winnable" nuclear exchange in his 1960 book On Thermonuclear War. This led to Kahn's being one of the models for the titular character of the film Dr. Strangelove, in which RAND is spoofed as the "BLAND Corporation".[30][31]

Even in the late 1940s and early 1950s, long before Sputnik, the RAND project was secretly recommending to the US government a major effort to design a human-made satellite that would take photographs from space and the rockets to put such a satellite in orbit.[32]

RAND was not the first think tank, but during the 1960s, it was the first to be regularly referred to as a "think tank".[1] Accordingly, RAND served as the "prototype" for the modern definition of that term.[1]

Achievements edit

 
RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The achievements of RAND stem from its development of systems analysis. Important contributions are claimed in space systems and the United States' space program,[33] in computing and in artificial intelligence. RAND researchers developed many of the principles that were used to build the Internet.[34] RAND also contributed to the development and use of wargaming.[35][36]

Current areas of expertise include: child policy, law, civil and criminal justice, education, health (public health and health care), international policy/foreign policy, labor markets, national security, defense policy, infrastructure, energy, environment, business and corporate governance, economic development, intelligence policy, long-range planning, crisis management and emergency management-disaster preparation, population studies, regional studies, comparative studies, science and technology, social policy, welfare, terrorism and counterterrorism, cultural policy, arts policy, and transportation.[37][14][11]

RAND designed and conducted one of the largest and most important studies of health insurance between 1974 and 1982. The RAND Health Insurance Experiment, funded by the then–U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, established an insurance corporation to compare demand for health services with their cost to the patient.[38][39]

In 2018, RAND began its Gun Policy in America initiative,[40] which resulted in comprehensive reviews of the evidence of the effects of gun policies in the United States. The second expanded review in 2020[41] analyzed almost 13,000 relevant studies on guns and gun violence since 1995 and selected 123 as having sufficient methodological rigor for inclusion. These were used to determine the level of scientific support for eighteen classes of gun policy.

Controversies edit

Almost since its inception, the RAND Corporation has been involved in controversial issues—and its reports, recommendations and influence have been the subject of extensive public debate and controversy. Among these have been:

Notable participants edit

 
John von Neumann, consultant to the RAND Corporation[68]

See also edit

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Further reading edit

Books edit

Articles edit

  • Clifford, Peggy, ed. "RAND and The City". Santa Monica Mirror, 27 October 1999 – 2 November 1999. Five-part series includes: at the Wayback Machine (archived 29 August 2005). Additional archives: , , , .
  • Miller, Arthur Selwyn, reviewer, book review: "Smith: The Rand Corporation: Case Study of a Nonprofit Advisory," June 1966, Florida Law Review, Volume 19, Issue 1, Article 15.
  • Specht, R.D. "Rand: A Personal View of Its History," Operations Research, vol. 8, no. 6 (Nov.–Dec. 1960), pp. 825–839. In JSTOR

Documentary films and broadcast programs edit

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Not to be confused with American Research and Development Corporation Remington Rand Ingersoll Rand or Sperry Rand RAND redirects here For other uses see Rand disambiguation 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 amp D across multiple fields and industries Since the 1950s RAND research has helped inform United States policy decisions on a wide variety of issues including the space race the Vietnam War the U S Soviet nuclear arms confrontation the creation of the Great Society social welfare programs and national health care RAND CorporationHeadquarters in Santa MonicaPredecessorSpin off of Project RAND a former partnership between Douglas Aircraft Company and the United States Air Force until incorporation as a nonprofit and gaining independence from both FormationMay 14 1948 75 years ago 1948 05 14 FoundersFranklin R Collbohm Henry H Hap Arnold Donald Douglas Curtis LeMayTypeGlobal policy think tank research institute and public sector consulting firm 1 Tax ID no 95 1958142Legal statusNonprofit corporationPurposePolicy analysis Research and developmentHeadquartersSanta Monica California U S Coordinates34 00 35 N 118 29 26 W 34 009599 N 118 490670 W 34 009599 118 490670RegionWorldwidePresident and CEOJason Gaverick Matheny 2 RAND LeadershipJennifer Gould Andrew R Hoehn Mike Januzik Eric Peltz Melissa Rowe Robert M Case 2 President RAND EuropeHans Pung 2 Board of directorsMichael E Leiter Chair Teresa Wynn Roseborough Vice Chair Joel Z Hyatt Peter Lowy Michael Lynton Mary E Peters David L Porges Donald B Rice Emeritus Leonard D Schaeffer 3 SubsidiariesRAND EuropeFrederick S Pardee RAND Graduate SchoolAffiliationsIndependentRevenue 390 million 2023 4 DisbursementsNumerousExpenses 427 million 2023 5 Endowment 288 7 million 2023 6 Staff1 900 2023 7 Websitewww wbr rand wbr org The RAND Corporation originated as Project RAND from the phrase research and development in the postwar period immediately after World War II 8 9 The United States Army Air Forces established Project RAND with the objective of investigating long range planning of future weapons 10 Douglas Aircraft Company was granted a contract to research intercontinental warfare 10 Project RAND later evolved into the RAND Corporation and expanded its research into civilian fields such as education and international affairs 11 It was the first think tank to be regularly referred to as a think tank 1 RAND receives both public and private funding Its funding sources include the U S government private endowments 12 corporations 13 universities 13 charitable foundations U S state and local governments international organizations and to a small extent by foreign governments 13 14 Contents 1 Overview 2 History 2 1 Project RAND 2 2 RAND Corporation 3 Achievements 4 Controversies 5 Notable participants 6 See also 7 References 8 Further reading 8 1 Books 8 2 Articles 8 3 Documentary films and broadcast programs 9 External linksOverview editRAND has approximately 1 850 employees Its American locations include Santa Monica California headquarters Arlington Virginia Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and Boston Massachusetts 15 The RAND Gulf States Policy Institute has an office in New Orleans Louisiana RAND Europe is located in Cambridge United Kingdom Brussels Belgium and Rotterdam Netherlands 16 RAND Australia is located in Canberra Australia 17 RAND is home to the Frederick S Pardee RAND Graduate School one of eight original graduate programs in public policy and the first to offer a PhD The program aims to provide practical experience for students who work with RAND analysts on addressing real world problems The campus is at RAND s Santa Monica research facility The Pardee RAND School is the world s largest PhD granting program in policy analysis 18 Unlike many other programs all Pardee RAND Graduate School students receive fellowships to cover their education costs This allows them to dedicate their time to engage in research projects and provides them with on the job training 18 RAND also offers a number of internship and fellowship programs allowing students and others to assist in conducting research for RAND projects Most of these are short term independent projects mentored by a RAND staff member 19 RAND publishes the RAND Journal of Economics a peer reviewed journal of economics 20 Thirty two recipients of the Nobel Prize primarily in the fields of economics and physics have been associated with RAND at some point in their career 21 22 History editProject RAND edit RAND was created after individuals in the War Department the Office of Scientific Research and Development and industry began to discuss the need for a private organization to connect operational research with research and development decisions 19 The immediate impetus for the creation of RAND was a fateful conversation in September 1945 between General Henry H Hap Arnold and Douglas executive Franklin R Collbohm 23 Both men were deeply worried that ongoing demobilization meant the federal government was about to lose direct control of the vast amount of American scientific brainpower assembled to fight World War II 23 As soon as Arnold realized Collbohm had been thinking along similar lines he said I know just what you re going to tell me It s the most important thing we can do 24 With Arnold s blessing Collbohm quickly pulled in additional people from Douglas to help and together with Donald Douglas they convened with Arnold two days later at Hamilton Army Airfield to sketch out a general outline for Collbohm s proposed project 24 Douglas engineer Arthur Emmons Raymond came up with the name Project RAND from research and development 8 Collbohm suggested that he himself should serve as the project s first director which he thought would be a temporary position while he searched for a permanent replacement for himself 8 He later became RAND s first president and served in that capacity until his retirement in 1967 25 On 1 October 1945 Project RAND was set up under special contract to the Douglas Aircraft Company and began operations in December 1945 19 26 In May 1946 the Preliminary Design of an Experimental World Circling Spaceship was released RAND Corporation edit By late 1947 Douglas Aircraft executives had expressed their concerns that their close relationship with RAND might create conflict of interest problems on future hardware contracts In February 1948 the chief of staff of the newly created United States Air Force approved the evolution of Project RAND into a nonprofit corporation independent of Douglas 19 On 14 May 1948 RAND was incorporated as a nonprofit corporation under the laws of the State of California and on 1 November 1948 the Project RAND contract was formally transferred from the Douglas Aircraft Company to the RAND Corporation 19 Initial capital for the spin off was provided by the Ford Foundation Since the 1950s RAND research has helped inform United States policy decisions on a wide variety of issues including the space race the Vietnam War the U S Soviet nuclear arms confrontation the creation of the Great Society social welfare programs the digital revolution and national health care 27 In the 1970s the Rand Corporation adjusted computer models it was using to recommend closures of fire stations in New York City so that fire stations were closed in the most fire prone areas home to Black and Puerto Rican residents rather than in wealthier more affluent neighborhoods 28 RAND contributed to the doctrine of nuclear deterrence by mutually assured destruction MAD developed under the guidance of then Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and based upon their work with game theory 29 Chief strategist Herman Kahn also posited the idea of a winnable nuclear exchange in his 1960 book On Thermonuclear War This led to Kahn s being one of the models for the titular character of the film Dr Strangelove in which RAND is spoofed as the BLAND Corporation 30 31 Even in the late 1940s and early 1950s long before Sputnik the RAND project was secretly recommending to the US government a major effort to design a human made satellite that would take photographs from space and the rockets to put such a satellite in orbit 32 RAND was not the first think tank but during the 1960s it was the first to be regularly referred to as a think tank 1 Accordingly RAND served as the prototype for the modern definition of that term 1 Achievements edit nbsp RAND Corporation Pittsburgh Pennsylvania The achievements of RAND stem from its development of systems analysis Important contributions are claimed in space systems and the United States space program 33 in computing and in artificial intelligence RAND researchers developed many of the principles that were used to build the Internet 34 RAND also contributed to the development and use of wargaming 35 36 Current areas of expertise include child policy law civil and criminal justice education health public health and health care international policy foreign policy labor markets national security defense policy infrastructure energy environment business and corporate governance economic development intelligence policy long range planning crisis management and emergency management disaster preparation population studies regional studies comparative studies science and technology social policy welfare terrorism and counterterrorism cultural policy arts policy and transportation 37 14 11 RAND designed and conducted one of the largest and most important studies of health insurance between 1974 and 1982 The RAND Health Insurance Experiment funded by the then U S Department of Health Education and Welfare established an insurance corporation to compare demand for health services with their cost to the patient 38 39 In 2018 RAND began its Gun Policy in America initiative 40 which resulted in comprehensive reviews of the evidence of the effects of gun policies in the United States The second expanded review in 2020 41 analyzed almost 13 000 relevant studies on guns and gun violence since 1995 and selected 123 as having sufficient methodological rigor for inclusion These were used to determine the level of scientific support for eighteen classes of gun policy Controversies editAlmost since its inception the RAND Corporation has been involved in controversial issues and its reports recommendations and influence have been the subject of extensive public debate and controversy Among these have been Cold War and potential nuclear conflict 42 43 44 45 In December 2023 the RAND Corporation was designated as undesirable in Russia 46 City government 47 48 49 50 Vietnam War 51 52 53 54 Transparency in government 55 52 53 National health insurance 56 Alcoholism 57 Auto insurance 58 Iraq War 51 59 Gun control 60 61 62 The National Rifle Association of America has cited RAND s research on the effect of assault rifle bans on mass shootings and violent crime 63 Artificial Intelligence RAND has been accused of lobbying for AI companies 64 65 and having close ties to the effective altruism movement 66 In December 2023 the House Science Committee sent a bipartisan letter to the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST raising concerns over RAND s research that has failed to go through robust review processes such as academic peer review 67 Notable participants edit nbsp John von Neumann consultant to the RAND Corporation 68 Henry H Hap Arnold General of the Air Force United States Air Force Kenneth Arrow economist won the Nobel Prize in Economics developed the impossibility theorem in social choice theory Bruno Augenstein V P physicist mathematician and space scientist Robert Aumann mathematician game theorist won the Nobel Prize in Economics J Paul Austin Chairman of the Board 1972 1981 Paul Baran one of the developers of packet switching which was used in ARPANET and later networks like the Internet Richard Bellman Mathematician known for his work on dynamic programming Yoram Ben Porat economist and President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Barry Boehm worked in interactive computer graphics with the RAND Corporation in the 1960s and had helped define the ARPANET in the early phases of that program 69 Harold L Brode physicist leading nuclear weapons effects expert Bernard Brodie Military strategist and nuclear architect Samuel Cohen inventor of the neutron bomb in 1958 70 Franklin R Collbohm Aviation engineer Douglas Aircraft Company RAND founder and former director and trustee 71 Walter Cunningham astronaut George Dantzig mathematician creator of the simplex algorithm for linear programming Linda Darling Hammond educational researcher co director School Redesign Network Merton Davies mathematician pioneering planetary scientist Michael H Decker Senior International Defense Research Analyst 72 Stephen H Dole Author of the book Habitable Planets for Man 73 74 and head of Rand s Human Engineering Group 75 Donald Wills Douglas Sr President Douglas Aircraft Company RAND founder Hubert Dreyfus philosopher and critic of artificial intelligence Karen Elliott House Chairman of the Board 2009 present former publisher The Wall Street Journal Former Senior Vice President Dow Jones amp Company Inc Daniel Ellsberg economist and leaker of the Pentagon Papers Alain Enthoven economist Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1965 Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis from 1965 to 1969 Stephen J Flanagan political scientist National Security Council senior director Francis Fukuyama academic and author of The End of History and the Last Man Horace Rowan Gaither Chairman of the Board 1949 1959 1960 1961 known for the Gaither Report David Galula French officer and scholar James J Gillogly cryptographer and computer scientist Paul Y Hammond political scientist and national security scholar affiliated 1964 79 program director 1973 76 76 Anthony C Hearn developed the REDUCE computer algebra system the oldest such system still in active use 77 co founded the CSNET computer network Fred Ikle US nuclear policy researcher Brian Michael Jenkins terrorism expert Senior Advisor to the President of the RAND Corporation and author of Unconquerable Nation Herman Kahn theorist on nuclear war and one of the founders of scenario planning Amrom Harry Katz Konrad Kellen research analyst and author co wrote open letter to U S government in 1969 recommending withdrawal from Vietnam war 78 Zalmay Khalilzad U S ambassador to United Nations Henry Kissinger United States Secretary of State 1973 1977 National Security Advisor 1969 1975 Nobel Peace Prize Winner 1973 Ann McLaughlin Korologos Chairman of the Board April 2004 2009 Chairman Emeritus The Aspen Institute Lewis Scooter Libby United States Vice president Dick Cheney s former Chief of Staff Ray Mabus Former ambassador governor Harry Markowitz economist greatly advanced financial portfolio theory by devising mean variance analysis Nobel Prize in Economics Andrew W Marshall military strategist director of the U S DoD Office of Net Assessment Jason Gaverick Matheny selected as president and CEO of The RAND Corporation in 2022 79 Margaret Mead U S anthropologist Douglas Merrill former Google CIO amp President of EMI s digital music division Newton N Minow Chairman of the board 1970 1972 John Milnor mathematician known for his work in differential topology Chuck Missler Bible Teacher Engineer chairman and CEO Western Digital Lloyd Morrisett Chairman of the board 1986 1995 John Forbes Nash Jr mathematician won the Nobel Prize in Economics John von Neumann mathematician pioneer of the modern digital computer Allen Newell artificial intelligence Paul O Neill Chairman of the board 1997 2000 Edmund Phelps winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics Arthur E Raymond Chief engineer Douglas Aircraft Company RAND founder Condoleezza Rice former intern former trustee 1991 1997 and former Secretary of State for the United States Michael D Rich RAND President and chief executive officer 1 November 2011 5 July 2022 Leo Rosten academic and humorist helped set up the social sciences division of RAND 80 Albert S Ruddy programmer trainee Oscar winning producer of The Godfather and Million Dollar Baby Donald Rumsfeld Chairman of board from 1981 to 1986 1995 1996 and secretary of defense for the United States from 1975 to 1977 and 2001 to 2006 Robert M Salter advocate of the vactrain maglev train concept Paul Samuelson economist Nobel Prize in Economics Thomas C Schelling economist won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics James Schlesinger former secretary of defense and former secretary of energy Dov Seidman lawyer businessman and CEO of LRN Norman Shapiro mathematician co author of the Rice Shapiro theorem MH Email and RAND Abel co designer Lloyd Shapley mathematician and game theorist won the Nobel Prize in Economics Cliff Shaw inventor of the linked list and co author of the first artificial intelligence program Abram Shulsky former Director of the Pentagon s Office of Special Plans 81 Herbert Simon Political scientist psychologist won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Economics James Steinberg Deputy National Security Advisor to Bill Clinton Ratan Tata Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons 82 James Thomson RAND president and CEO 1989 31 October 2011 Willis Ware JOHNNIAC co designer and early computer privacy pioneer William H Webster Chairman of the Board 1959 1960 Oliver Williamson economist won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics Albert Wohlstetter mathematician and Cold War strategist Roberta Wohlstetter policy analyst and military historian Ariane Tabatabai former researcher 83 See also editA Million Random Digits with 100 000 Normal Deviates published by RAND Truth Decay also published by RAND References edit a b c d e Medvetz Thomas 2012 Think Tanks in America Chicago University of Chicago Press p 26 ISBN 978 0 226 51729 2 Retrieved 25 April 2015 a b c RAND Leadership RAND Corporation Retrieved 8 June 2022 RAND Corporation Board of Trustees RAND Corporation Retrieved 16 January 2015 RAND Annual Report 2023 p 39 RAND Corporation Retrieved 24 April 2024 As of September 20 2023 RAND Consolidated Financial Statements Fiscal Years Ended September 30 2023 and 2022 Report RAND 8 April 2024 Retrieved 24 April 2024 RAND Consolidated Financial Statements Fiscal Years Ended September 30 2023 and 2022 As of September 20 2023 Report RAND 8 April 2024 Retrieved 24 April 2024 2023 RAND Annual Report Report RAND 10 April 2024 Retrieved 24 April 2024 a b c Abella Alex 2009 Soldiers of Reason The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire Boston and New York Mariner Books p 13 ISBN 978 0 15 603344 2 Retrieved 31 October 2021 RAND History and Mission Accessed 13 April 2009 a b Johnson Stephen B 2002 The United States Air Force and the culture of innovation 1945 1965 Diane Publishing Co p 32 ISBN 978 1 4289 9027 2 a b RAND Corporation GuideStar Profile www guidestar org Retrieved 10 March 2023 2023 RAND Annual Report RAND Corporation 10 April 2024 Retrieved 25 April 2024 a b c How We re Funded RAND Corp Retrieved 16 January 2015 a b Monica 1776 Main Street Santa California 90401 3208 How We Are Funded Major Clients and Grantmakers of RAND Research www rand org Retrieved 10 March 2023 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint numeric names authors list link RAND Locations RAND Corp Retrieved 10 May 2017 RAND Europe Contact Information RAND Corp Retrieved 16 January 2015 RAND Locations Canberra Office RAND Corp Retrieved 16 January 2015 a b Pardee RAND History Pardee RAND Graduate School Retrieved 21 February 2014 a b c d e RAND at a Glance RAND Corp Retrieved 31 December 2013 The RAND Journal of Economics www rje org Retrieved 21 May 2023 Sarabi Brigette 1 January 2005 Oregon The Rand Report on Measure 11 is Finally Available Partnership for Safety and Justice PSJ Archived from the 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The Fires How a Computer Formula Big Ideas and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New York City and Determined the Future of Cities p 205 Twing Steven W 1998 Myths models amp U S foreign policy Lynne Rienner Publishers ISBN 1 55587 766 4 Hanks Robert 19 December 2007 The Week In Radio The think tank for unthinkable thoughts The Independent London Retrieved 24 June 2009 Kaplan Fred 10 October 2004 Truth Stranger Than Strangelove The New York Times Retrieved 24 June 2009 The Space Review LBJ s Space Race What we didn t know then Part 1 Davies Merton E Hams William R September 1988 RAND s Role in the Evolution of Balloon and Satellite Observation Systems and Related U S Space Technology PDF RAND Corp Archived PDF from the original on 4 March 2016 Retrieved 16 January 2015 Paul Baran Posthumous Recipient Internet Hall of Fame Internet Society 2012 Retrieved 16 January 2015 Perla Peter P 1990 The Art of Wargaming A Guide for Professionals and Hobbyists Annapolis Md Naval Institute Press pp 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Rej Abhijnan Commentary The Other Legacy of Robert McNamara June 10 2016 War on the Rocks reviewed by Matthew Fay in Rationalizing McNamara s Legacy August 5 2016 Niskanen Center Fay rebutted by RAND representatives John Speed Meyers and Jonathan P Wong at In Defense of Defense Analysis September 2 2016 The RAND Blog RAND Corporation retrieved November 24 2022 Wyne Ali RAND Corporation opinion essay A new world order will likely arise only from calamity July 24 2018 Washington Post retrieved November 24 2022 Russia Outlaws U S Based RAND Corporation as Undesirable The Moscow Times 7 December 2023 Clines Francis X The Men Who Tell City How to Run the City July 8 1970 New York Times retrieved November 24 2022 Szanton Peter L RAND Corporation Analysis and Urban Government Experience of the New York City Rand Institute July 1972 Policy Sciences Vol 3 No 2 pp 153 161 Springer at Jstor org retrieved November 24 2022 Data in the Fire Service 2015 NFPA 2015 Responder Forum National Fire 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Retrieved 12 September 2016 Obituary Paul Y Hammond University of Pittsburgh 5 April 2012 Computer Science History School of Computing University of Utah Archived from the original on 10 December 2000 Retrieved 24 August 2017 Noland Claire 12 April 2007 Konrad Kellen 93 Rand researcher studied Vietnam War and urged withdrawal of troops Los Angeles Times Archived from the original on 13 July 2013 Retrieved 13 July 2013 Monica 1776 Main Street Santa California 90401 3208 Jason Matheny Named President and CEO of RAND Corporation www rand org Retrieved 7 June 2022 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint numeric names authors list link Kaplan Fred August 1991 The Wizards of Armageddon Fred M Kaplan Google Boeken Stanford University Press ISBN 978 0 8047 1884 4 Retrieved 14 June 2013 Seymour M Hersh 12 May 2003 Selective Intelligence Donald Rumsfeld has his own special sources Are they reliable The New Yorker Bruce Karatz and Ratan N Tata Join Rand Board of Trustees rand org 2 November 2006 Ariane M Tabatabai Publications 24 January 2024 Further reading editBooks edit Alex Abella Soldiers of Reason The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire 2008 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt hardcover ISBN 0 15 101081 1 2009 Mariner Books paperback reprint edition ISBN 0 15 603344 5 S M Amadae Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice Liberalism 2003 University of Chicago Press paperback ISBN 0 226 01654 4 hardcover ISBN 0 226 01653 6 Martin J Collins Cold War Laboratory RAND the Air Force and the American State 1945 1950 2002 Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press hardcover part of the Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight Series ISBN 1 58834 086 4 Joe Flood The Fires How a Computer Formula Burned Down New York City and Determined the Future of American Cities 2010 Riverhead Books ISBN 1 59448 898 3 9781594488986 summarized at GoodReads com and reviewed at GoodReads com by Rob Kitchin and at Accounts newsletter of the Economics section of the American Sociological Association Vol XV Issue 2 Spring 2016 page 32 Sharon Ghamari Tabrizi The Worlds of Herman Kahn The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War 2005 Harvard University Press ISBN 978 0 674 01714 6 Agatha C Hughes and Thomas P Hughes editors Systems Experts and Computers The Systems Approach in Management and Engineering World War II and After 2000 The MIT Press hardcover part of the Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology ISBN 0 262 08285 3 2011 paperback reprint edition ISBN 0 262 51604 7 David Jardini Thinking Through the Cold War RAND National Security and Domestic Policy 1945 1975 2013 Smashwords Amazon Kindle ISBN 978 1 301 15851 5 Fred Kaplan The Wizards of Armageddon 1983 Simon amp Schuster hardcover first printing ISBN 0 671 42444 0 1991 Stanford University Press paperback part of the Stanford Nuclear Age Series ISBN 0 8047 1884 9 Edward S Quade and Wayne I Boucher editors Systems Analysis and Policy Planning Applications in Defense 1968 American Elsevier hardcover Bruce L R Smith The RAND Corporation Case Study of a Nonprofit Advisory Corporation 1966 Harvard University Press 1969 ISBN 0 674 74850 6 Marc Trachtenberg History and Strategy 1991 Princeton University Press paperback ISBN 0 691 02343 3 hardcover ISBN 0 691 07881 5 Jean Loup Samaan La Rand Corporation 2013 Cestudec Press Articles edit Clifford Peggy ed RAND and The City Santa Monica Mirror 27 October 1999 2 November 1999 Five part series includes Part 1 at the Wayback Machine archived 29 August 2005 Additional archives Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Miller Arthur Selwyn reviewer book review Smith The Rand Corporation Case Study of a Nonprofit Advisory June 1966 Florida Law Review Volume 19 Issue 1 Article 15 Specht R D Rand A Personal View of Its History Operations Research vol 8 no 6 Nov Dec 1960 pp 825 839 In JSTOR Documentary films and broadcast programs edit The RAND Corporation A Brilliant Madness historical documentary American Experience series PBS TV also detailed at A Brilliant Madness Archived 3 February 2023 at the Wayback Machine The RAND Corporation program listings PBS News Hour PBS TV Daniel Ellsberg Willing to Risk Prosecution POV series PBS TV also trailer External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to RAND Corporation Official website RAND Corporation at Curlie The Research and Development RAND Corporation from the Smithsonian Institution Archives Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title RAND Corporation amp oldid 1221614680, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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