The Institute for Defense Analyses

Defense Daily, Sept 27, 1995

* The Institute for Defense Analyses, a non-for-profit organization, Alexandria, Va., $5.3 million modification to a cost plus fixed fee contract. Task order will be directed to individual issues of urgent, near-term and long-term interest in the planing and management of defense and national security related programs.

Project will be related to application of science and technology in national security matters; exploration of issues in defense systems research and development; computer and software engineering; evaluation of military systems in development or proposed, and of military forces using those systems; analysis of manpower, readiness, and support issues; research into the cost of military systems, personnel, and activities; research in strategy, military planning, international security, and related defense policy management; assessment of worldwide, regional, and local balances of power and stability and the factors affecting them, including their technical, economical, and military aspects; and operational evaluation and analyses of systems, forces and military organizations in test, wargames, field operations, and actual combat. This is a sole source contract initiated in Oct.1, 1993. Of the total contract funds, $280,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Defense Supply Service, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (DASW01-94-C-0054) [09-25-95].