ORGANIZATION

Founded in the 1950s by MIT. The IDA is a nonprofit that "administers three federally funded research and development centers to assist the United States Government in addressing important national security issues, particularly those requiring scientific and technical expertise."

Official Website:
http://www.ida.org/

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Hans Mark	Physicist	17-Jun-1929		US Air Force Secretary, 1979-81
William Niskanen	Administrator	?		Chairman of the Cato Institute
Michael O'Hanlon	Scholar	c. 1958		Brookings Institution
John M. Palms	Physicist	6-Jun-1935		President, University of South Carolina, 1991-2002
James Simons	Mathematician	c. 1938		Renaissance Technologies hedge fund
Gordon R. Sullivan	Military	25-Sep-1937		US Army Chief of Staff, 1991-95
Maxwell D. Taylor	Military	26-Aug-1901	19-Apr-1987	Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1962-64
Larry D. Welch	Military	9-Jun-1934		USAF Chief of Staff, 1986-90
John P. White	Government	27-Feb-1937		US Deputy Secretary of Defense, 1995-97
Suzanne H. Woolsey	Business	c. 1942		National Academies

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