CNA’s Center for Naval Analyses Awarded Contract Renewal As Department of the Navy’s Federally Funded Research and Development Center

ALEXANDRIA, VA – CNA today announced that the Department of the Navy has renewed its contract for operation of the Center for Naval Analyses as the Department’s Federally Funded Research and Development Center. The contract is for four-and-a-half years and fully executed has a value of $509,623,200. The first period of performance is April 1, 2011 to September 30, 2011 with four one-year options for Fiscal Year 2012 through FY 2015.
“The Center for Naval Analyses has a long and trusted relationship with the Navy and Marines,” said Paul Speer, President of the Center for Naval Analyses. “Center analysts pioneered the field of operations research almost 70 years ago and now support our customers with a unique brand of multi-disciplinary, field-based real-world, real-time research and analysis. We’re pleased to continue this outstanding partnership with the Navy, Marines and other Department of Defense customers.”

Center for Naval Analyses analysts work on site with operating forces and at CNA’s Virginia headquarters addressing such issues as finding the best ways to employ new technologies and how to handle the complex command-and-control relationships critical to multinational alliances and coalition operations. Decades of service to the national defense community have kept the Center for Naval Analyses continually engaged in working with complex data sets, problems of undefined scope and scale, and issues of great urgency.
CNA also manages the Institute for Public Research, which provides research and analysis to a diverse array of federal, state, and local government agencies,