CNA's Resource Analysis Division (RAD) provides analytical services to help develop, evaluate, and implement policies, practices, and programs that make people, budgets, and assets more effective and efficient.

CNA's Resource Analysis Division Teams:

  • Infrastructure and Readiness Team
  • Cost and Acquisition Team
  • Workforce, Education, and Training Team

RAD's roots are traced to World War II, where its analysts provided services to help manage the operations and tactics of our combat forces. In 1962, when Secretary McNamara was pushing for the introduction of corporate business practices and cost-benefit analyses into DoD decisions, RAD's operations analysts joined a group of economists and cost analysts in Cambridge, Massachusetts and became the Center for Naval Analyses. The Resource Analysis Division is the direct descendant of that founding group.

RAD's areas of analyses include:

Manpower management
evaluating policies and programs within the context of entire personnel and career development systems, identifying costly losses of personnel, isolating problems and proposing solutions, evaluating the cost-effectiveness of military compensation and benefits packages, including help in structuring special pay rates for hard-to-fill jobs and identifying factors contributing to increased productivity.
Materials management
evaluating alternative ways of maintaining equipment availability, assisting in equipment maintenance by examining the effectiveness and efficiency of maintenance policies, developing optimal supply inventory rules, and evaluating the effects of aging and operations on reliability and budget requirements.
Facilities and real estate
assistance in base closures (1993 and 1995) and in preparing for BRAC in 2005, identifying mission-critical criteria and alternate mixes and alignments of facilities to meet mission requirements, assisting in the shaping of new military housing policies to reduce costs and give bachelors more choices, helping clients better adhere to environmental laws and control cleanup costs.
Acquisition management
evaluating acquisition organizations and policies; examining appropriate acquisition oversight; and evaluating alternative acquisition strategies.
Budget and execution management
evaluating and proposing methods to improve cost visibility and management and evaluating reimbursable funding, activity-based costing, capital budgeting, and budget-resource alignment.
Metrics
helping clients meet the challenge of defining clear, high-level metrics, including assisting OSD and the Navy in developing better metrics to judge the readiness of its forces.
Competitive sourcing
examining performance of the public-private competition program and examining the long-term effects of competition for our clients. Based on lessons learned, help clients develop strategies, evaluate candidate functions, and execute fair comparisons.