The Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) is a non-profit federally-funded think tank supporting the Department of Defense and other agencies with multi-disciplinary research. IDA assists the United States Government in addressing important national security issues, particularly those requiring scientific and technical expertise. IDA takes great pride in the high caliber and timeliness of its analyses, which are produced in an atmosphere that encourages independent thinking and objective results.
Full-time positions as Research Staff Members and Research Associates are available to qualified candidates with Masters and Doctoral degrees in a variety of disciplines including physical and life sciences, social sciences, math, statistics, engineering, and international affairs. IDA also runs a Summer Associate program for graduate students and rising senior undergraduates and a two-year Science Policy Fellowship for recent bachelor’s and master’s degree recipients. Because all candidates must be eligible to obtain security clearance, U.S. citizenship is required.
Dr. Steve Rabinowitz, an alumnus of Columbia College (BA Physics 1984) and GSAS (PhD Physics 1992) has been working in IDA’s Operational Evaluation Division for 25 years, where he leads the Undersea Warfare task. He will be on campus on November 15th to chat with interested students about his experiences and describe job opportunities at IDA.
