ANSER History
ANSER is an operating unit of Analytic Services Inc. We are a public-service institute, an independent, not-for-profit corporation chartered in California with the assistance of the RAND Corporation in 1958. ANSER is one of two operating units under the Analytic Services umbrella.
A Board of Trustees from business, public service, academia, and military affairs governs the company. From the beginning, the Board has played an active role in ensuring that operations are in the public interest and meet consistently high standards of excellence, objectivity, and utility.
The corporation was originally established to support the Air Force, which needed a technically qualified, objective organization close to the Pentagon, able to respond on a day-to-day basis to identified needs for unbiased studies and analyses. Shortly after it was established, Analytic Services Inc. became a Federal Contract Research Center (FCRC), one of nine such organizations including RAND, Aerospace, MITRE, CNA, and Lincoln Laboratory. As such, it served a single client (the Air Force Director of Development Planning, later the Deputy Chief of Staff/Research and Development) and was restricted to only modest growth.
After changing its status in 1976, dropping the FCRC designation, ANSER began work for numerous Air Force organizations, other Department of Defense components, and other federal agencies. On the occasion of the corporation’s 25th anniversary in 1983, the Secretary of the Air Force wrote, "ANSER studies and technical approaches have served to illuminate ... issues related to the research, development and acquisition of almost every major Air Force weapon system over the past quarter of a century. ANSER's work has been marked by quality, responsiveness, and objectivity...."
ANSER has always served the national interest by expanding capabilities, enriching staff, and moving in new directions as current and future clients alter the course and content of their missions. It values flexibility, professionalism, and continuous learning as it strives to enlarge its contributions to the Nation.
The corporation now provides analytic and technical support to government agencies throughout the national security, homeland security, and public safety mission areas. ANSER uses a flexible, impartial, multidisciplinary approach to address complex problems, often on a quick-response basis.
Work by the corporation today adheres to the principles ANSER established in 1958: excellence in everything that it does; uncompromising integrity and ethics; dedication and a service attitude to each client; creative thinking, communication, and flexibility in performance of all work; learning as it conducts its business; and maintaining a base of employees who are continually growing and enhancing their professional standing.
The company maintains its home office in Arlington, VA. As its work and contract base have evolved, field offices have provided essential support. ANSER has offices in Colorado Springs, CO, and Hampton, VA.
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