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Organization

RAND Corporation

Nonprofit research organization headquartered in Santa Monica; it began in 1946 as Project RAND within Douglas Aircraft and became independent in 1948.

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Dates
14 May 1948 –
Place
Santa Monica
Also known as
RAND, Rand Corporation
Over time
  1. Active 14 May 1948 –
  2. headed by Frank Collbohm (President) 1948–1967
  3. contracts from United States government 1948 –
  4. people who worked here Paul Baran (researcher) 1959–1968

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headed by

people who worked here

  • Paul Baran 1959–1968 researcher Primary record 2

    He left RAND in 1968 to co-found the Institute for the Future.

contracts from

involved in

  • Cold War research on managing the nuclear standoff Primary record 4

formerly

  • Project RAND 1948 split from Douglas Aircraft as an independent nonprofit Primary record 4

headquartered in

  • Santa Monica Primary record 4

    RAND still lists Santa Monica as its headquarters.

Timeline 5 dates
  1. 1948–1967 Frank Collbohm head of RAND Corporation
  2. 1948 – United States government awarded a contract to RAND Corporation
  3. 1948 Project RAND became RAND Corporation
  4. 14 May 1948 – RAND Corporation
  5. 1959–1968 Paul Baran worked at RAND Corporation
Proof 4 sources
  1. RAND and the Information Evolution: A History in Essays and Vignettes (CP-537), RAND Corporation, 17 Nov 2008. Primary record
    Frank Collbohm became RAND’s founding president, a position he held through his retirement in 1967.
  2. Paul Baran and the Origins of the Internet, RAND Corporation, 22 Mar 2018. Primary record
    Taking night classes at UCLA, he earned an engineering master's degree in 1959—the same year he joined RAND.
  3. A Look Through the Decades at World-Changing RAND Research, RAND Corporation. Primary record
    We started with one client—the U.S. Air Force—and over the past seven decades have enjoyed productive relationships with thousands of clients.
  4. A Brief History of the RAND Corporation, RAND Corporation. Primary record
    From the earliest days of the Cold War, RAND researchers had been thinking through how to manage a global standoff between two nuclear-armed superpowers.
    RAND split from Douglas in 1948 and became an independent nonprofit.
    Researchers were soon piecing together vacuum tubes and magnetic memory drums in the basement of RAND's new Santa Monica headquarters.
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