ANSER

This article is about the not-for-profit organization. For other meanings of "ANSER", see Anser (disambiguation).

Analytical Services, Inc., more known by its acronym ANSER, is a not-for-profit corporation that provides services, largely to the U.S. federal government, in several mission areas and by its management of the Homeland Security Studies & Analysis Institute, a federally funded research and development center operated on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security. Its headquarters are in Falls Church, Virginia.

Incorporated in California in 1958 as a not-for-profit corporation, ANSER was originally established to support the Air Force, which needed a technically qualified unbiased organization close to the Pentagon. Shortly after it was established, it became a Federal Contract Research Center (FCRC), one of nine such organizations including RAND, Aerospace Corporation, MITRE, CNA, and MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

Releasing its FCRC designation in 1976, ANSER began to work for other Department of Defense components, and select federal agencies.

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