CNA (nonprofit)
organization
CNA, legally the CNA Corporation, is a non-profit corporation located in Arlington County, Virginia, USA.
It has two major components. The larger component is its Federally Funded Research & Development Center (FFRDC), the Center for Naval Analyses. The other component is its (non-FFRDC) government services arm, called the Institute for Public Research (IPR). CNA Corporation has around 625 total employees. Roughly 500 of those are employees of the FFRDC.
History
CNA traces its origins to the Antisubmarine Warfare Operations Group (ASWORG), formed in 1942 to assist the US Navy with scientific advice for finding and attacking U-boats that were sinking commercial ships off the Atlantic coast of North America. Massachusetts Institute of Technology physics Professor Philip M. Morse founded ASWORG at the request of Capt. Wilder D. Baker, then commander of the Antisubmarine Warfare Unit of the Atlantic Fleet. Morse is considered the father of operations research in the United States.
By the end of World War II, the organization had expanded to almost 80 scientists serving on eight military bases in the Atlantic and Pacific as well as at the Washington, D.C. headquarters. They advised U.S. forces on air, antiaircraft, submarine, amphibious, and antisubmarine operations.
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