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Predecessor | Spin-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. |
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Formation | May 14, 1948 |
Founders | |
Type | Global policy think tank, research institute, and public sector consulting firm[1] |
95-1958142 | |
Legal status | Nonprofit corporation |
Purpose | |
Headquarters | Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
Coordinates | 34°00′35″N 118°29′26″W / 34.009599°N 118.490670°W |
Region | Worldwide |
President and CEO | Jason Gaverick Matheny[2] |
RAND Leadership |
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President, RAND Europe | Hans Pung[2] |
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Subsidiaries | RAND Europe Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School |
Secessions | Hudson Institute |
Affiliations | Independent |
Revenue | ![]() |
Disbursements | Numerous |
Expenses | ![]() |
Endowment | $288.7 million (2023)[6] |
Staff | 1,900 (2023)[7] |
Website | www |
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, 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.
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, foreign governments.[13][14]
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