All-Volunteer Force: The Bedrock of the U.S. Military
IDA’s recognized experts in military personnel policy take pride in providing the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) with the highest level of analytic rigor in our human capital policy and workforce analyses.
Innovation is our strength
Our multidisciplinary teams combine expertise in economics, data science, psychology, policy and science disciplines, with a deep familiarity in military life, culture and practices to provide actionable results.
OUR contributions
- Personnel retention prediction for modern talent management.
- Best practices for recruiting STEM civilians to the DOD workforce.
- Diversity, inclusion and minority representation.
- Prevention of, and response to, harmful behaviors such as suicide and hazing).
- Forecast demand for military critical skills training.
- Cyber workforce roles and military, civilian, and contractor alternatives.
- Readiness distractors in special operations and elite units.
- Operationalizing DOD data architectures and governance.
- Improving readiness and reducing costs in the military health system.
- Personnel management policies and organizational reform.
- Readiness payoffs to various full-time personnel staffing levels.
- Support for quadrennial reviews of military compensation.
We leverage technical expertise to provide objective analysis
We are a private, nonprofit corporation headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C.
TrUSTED DOD PARTNER SINCE 1956
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