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RAND Corporation (Research ANd Development〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rand.org/about/history.html )〕) is an American nonprofit global policy think tank〔 originally formed by Douglas Aircraft Company to offer research and analysis to the United States Armed Forces. It is financed by the U.S. government and private endowment,〔 corporations〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rand.org/about/clients_grantors.html#industry )〕 including the health care industry, universities〔 and private individuals.〔 The organization has expanded to work with other governments, private foundations, international organizations, and commercial organizations on a host of non-defense issues. RAND aims for interdisciplinary and quantitative problem solving via translating theoretical concepts from formal economics and the physical sciences into novel applications in other areas, that is, via applied science and operations research. Michael D. Rich is president and chief executive officer of the RAND Corporation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rand.org/about/people/r/rich_michael_d.html )〕 RAND has approximately 1,700 employees. Its American locations include: Santa Monica, California (headquarters); Arlington, Virginia; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Boston, Massachusetts.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rand.org/about/locations.html )〕 The RAND Gulf States Policy Institute has an office in New Orleans, Louisiana. RAND Europe is located in Cambridge, United Kingdom, and Brussels, Belgium.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rand.org/randeurope/about/contact.html )〕 RAND Australia is located in Canberra, Australia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rand.org/about/locations/canberra.html )〕 RAND is home to the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School, one of the eight original graduate programs in public policy and the first to offer a Ph.D. The program aims to have practical value in that students work with RAND analysts on real-world problems. The campus is at RAND's Santa Monica research facility. The Pardee RAND School is the world's largest Ph.D.-granting program in policy analysis.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.prgs.edu/about/at-a-glance.html )〕 Unlike many other universities, all Pardee RAND Graduate School students receive fellowships to cover their education costs. This allows them to dedicate their time to engage in research projects and provides them on-the-job training.〔 RAND also offers a number of internship and fellowship programs allowing students and outsiders to assist in conducting research for RAND projects. Most of these projects are short-term and are worked on independently with the mentoring of a RAND staff member.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rand.org/about/glance.html )〕 RAND publishes the ''RAND Journal of Economics'', a peer-reviewed journal of economics. Thirty-two recipients of the Nobel Prize, primarily in the fields of economics and physics, have been involved or associated with RAND at some point in their career. ==Project RAND== General Henry H. Arnold, commander of the United States Army Air Forces, established Project RAND with the objective of looking into long-range planning of future weapons.〔 In March 1946 Douglas Aircraft Company was granted the contract to research on intercontinental warfare by adopting operations research. In May 1946 the ''Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship'' was released. In May 1948, Project RAND separated from Douglas and became an independent non-profit organization as Douglas Aircraft feared it would create conflicts of interest jeopardizing future hardware contracts. Initial capital for the split was provided by the Ford Foundation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「RAND Corporation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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