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
Dennis C. Blair	Government	4-Feb-1947		Director of National Intelligence, 2009-10
George G. Daly	Educator	c. 1940		Business School Dean, Georgetown
Michael B. Donley	Military	4-Oct-1952		Acting Secretary, US Air Force
Hans Mark	Physicist	17-Jun-1929		US Air Force Secretary, 1979-81
William Niskanen	Administrator	13-Mar-1933	26-Oct-2011	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
Frederick Reines	Physicist	16-Mar-1918	26-Aug-1998	Co-Discover of the neutrino
Willard W. Scott, Jr.	Military	18-Feb-1926	1-Jan-2009	Superintendent of West Point, 1981-86
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
Charles H. Townes	Physicist	28-Jul-1915	27-Jan-2015	Invention of the maser and laser
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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