Key facts
- 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.
- Formation
- May 14, 1948 ; 78 years ago ( 1948-05-14 )
- Founders
- Franklin R. Collbohm Henry H. "Hap" Arnold Donald Douglas Curtis LeMay
- Type
- Global policy think tank , research institute , and public sector consulting firm
- Tax id no
- 95-1958142
- Legal status
- Nonprofit corporation
- Purpose
- Policy analysis Research and development
- Headquarters
- Santa Monica, California , U.S.
- Region served
- Worldwide
- President and ceo
- Jason Gaverick Matheny
- Rand leadership
- Jennifer Gould Andrew R. Hoehn Mike Januzik Eric Peltz Melissa Rowe Robert M. Case
- President rand europe
- Hans Pung
- Board of directors
- Michael 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
- Subsidiaries
- RAND Europe, Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School
- Affiliations
- Independent
- Revenue
- $ 514 million (2024)
- Disbursements
- Numerous
- Expenses
- $ 464 million (2024)
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Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Funder, Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1948
- Location
- Santa Monica, United States
- Status
- Active
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- think tank
- Official name
- RAND Corporation
- Field of work
- family policy
- Country
- United States
- Founded by
- Curtis LeMay
- Headquarters
- Santa Monica
- Employees
- 1850
- Revenue
- 461536647
- Legal form
- 501(c)(3) organization
- Official website
- www.rand.org
- Image
- Randcorporationsantamonica.JPG
- Has use
- policy analysis
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- topic's main category
- Category:RAND Corporation
- Commons category
- RAND Corporation
- inception
- 1948-05-14
- donations
- 429967857
- social media followers
- 36000
- language used
- English language
- web feed URL
- www.rand.org/news/rss.html
- replaces
- United States Air Force
- endowment
- 327492693
- subject has role
- research and development
- has goal
- research and development
- total assets
- 743919280
- has works in the collection
- Anne Frank House
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Encyclopedic overview
The RAND Corporation, doing business as RAND, is an American nonprofit global policy think tank, research institute, and public sector consulting firm. RAND engages in research and development (R&D) in several fields and industries. Since the 1950s, RAND research has helped inform United States policy decisions on a wide variety of issues, including the Cold War space race, the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, the U.S.–Soviet nuclear arms confrontation, the creation of the Great Society social welfare programs, and national health care.
RAND originated as "Project RAND" (from the phrase "research and development") in the post-war period immediately after World War II. The U.S. Army Air Forces established Project RAND with the objective of investigating long-range planning of future weapons. The Douglas Aircraft Company was granted a contract to research intercontinental warfare. Project RAND later evolved into RAND, and expanded its research into civilian fields such as education and international affairs. It was the first think tank to be regularly referred to as a "think tank".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “RAND Corporation” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.