Institute for Defense Analyses | Diversity Employer
The Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) is a private, nonprofit corporation headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC. IDA’s mission is to answer the most challenging U.S. security and science policy questions with objective analysis leveraging extraordinary scientific, technical, and analytic expertise.
Vision:
Our Nation’s most trusted partner in U.S. security and science policy analyses
Mission:
Answer the most challenging U.S. security and science policy questions with objective analysis leveraging extraordinary scientific, technical, and analytic expertise
Guiding Principles
Rigorous Analysis
Our findings and conclusions arise directly from the results of technically exacting and data-driven analyses. By holding ourselves to this high standard, our sponsors can trust the accurate, in-depth, and objective information we deliver to them.
Trusted Expertise
We are devoted to honesty, professionalism, and ethical conduct. We do and say what’s right, even when it isn’t easy. We work closely with our sponsors to make our analyses relevant, responsive, and timely. We report the truth revealed in data and our analyses. We are vigilant in protecting ourselves and our institution from any conflict of interest – real or perceived – that might impugn our research results and preclude these truths from informing public policy discourse.
Inclusion
We embrace differences. We celebrate the inherent value of a team diverse in thought, experience, and demographics.
Collaboration
We maximize the value of different perspectives, backgrounds, and ideas of multi-disciplinary, high-performance teams. Unified by our commitment to a common goal, we surpass what would have been accomplished individually.
Innovation
We are a learning organization – learning from each other, our peers, outside experts, and those we serve to create and improve the capabilities, methods, and approaches used in our work.
Service to the Nation
We exist to inform our Nation’s leaders as they confront the most challenging U.S. security and science policy challenges.
Careers
The Institute for Defense Analyses is a nonprofit organization that provides government agencies with high-quality, objective analyses of issues of national security. We provide a work environment that encourages rigorous, independent research on challenging and complex issues.
Applicants who are selected will be subject to a security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. U.S. citizenship is required.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Statement
Our Research Staff
IDA researchers – 90 percent of whom have advanced degrees – answer tough, urgent scientific and technical questions needed for important policy decisions.
At IDA, our focus is on hiring a diverse range of experienced professionals, new graduates, skilled technicians and military veterans in assembling a team reflective of the work we do. We look for talented individuals with undergraduate and graduate degrees, including PhDs who are interested in working on some of the most challenging projects. Regardless of where you are in in your career, the experience you have will enhance the full spectrum of talents we bring to bear on the work for our sponsors.
Government sponsors ask IDA's help in understanding exceptionally varied problems. For each project, research teams possessing the precisely necessary scientific and technical skills – and representing disparate life experiences – are assembled from across the Institute's divisions. IDA’s flat organization and culture of internal collaboration allow researchers to easily and collegially interact with each other and the Institute's leaders.
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Program Analyst - Defense Institution Building Project
Alexandria, Virginia
Institute for Defense Analyses
Overview: The Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) operates three Federally Funded Research and Development Centers supporting federal decision making - two serving the Department of Defense (DoD) and one serving the Office of Science and T...
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Adjunct Research Analyst - GDI
Alexandria, Virginia
Institute for Defense Analyses
Overview Adjunct Research Analysts provide technical, scientific, and analytical expertise in support of IDA's work requiring independent and objective research, test, study and analyses of national security issues and related national chal...
7h
| Job Type | Full Time |
Alexandria, Virginia
Institute for Defense Analyses
Summary Statement: This position serves as the recruiting resource for IDA's talent acquisition function by supporting the Deputy Director, Talent Management and Workplace Culture with the design and execution of outreach, engagement and re...
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| Job Type | Full Time |
Alexandria, Virginia
Institute for Defense Analyses
Overview The Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) is now accepting applications for our 2025 Summer Associate Program. This Program provides students with a unique opportunity to use their quantitative and analytic skills to work on challen...
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| Job Type | Full Time |
Corporate Financial Analyst II
Alexandria, Virginia
Institute for Defense Analyses
This is a hybrid capacity position that requires onsite presence in addition to remote work. Overview The Financial Analyst II is responsible for complex financial analyses across IDA and is responsible for consistently producing timely, ac...
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| Job Type | Full Time |
Executive Assistant - VP Corporate Operations
Alexandria, Virginia
Institute for Defense Analyses
What is the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)? The Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) is a not-for-profit corporation that operates three Federally Funded Research & Development Centers (FFRDCs). Our organization provides objective ana...
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| Job Type | Full Time |
2025 - Data Science Fellowship
Alexandria, Virginia
Institute for Defense Analyses
Overview The Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) is a not-for-profit corporation that operates three Federally Funded Research & Development Centers (FFRDCs). IDA's Systems and Analyses Center is located in Alexandria, Virginia and is comp...
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| Job Type | Full Time |
Facilities Services Assistant - Corporate Real Estate
Alexandria, Virginia
Institute for Defense Analyses
Who We Are: The Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) is a private, nonprofit corporation headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC. IDA's mission is to answer the most challenging U.S. security and science policy qu...
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| Job Type | Full Time |
Alexandria, Virginia
Institute for Defense Analyses
Summary Statement: With minimal supervision, this position designs, administers, and maintains multiple data, voice, and video telecommunication networks, systems and software. The incumbent is a seasoned professional, able to solve a diver...
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| Job Type | Full Time |