Wikipedia Article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_research_organization
TTD/QTBA/FU
1. What is the SIC NASIC for these organizations?
2. How does one find out what contract research projects are being offered for bid? They must be announced somewhere.
3. Battelle, SRI, SAIC, and RAND are all nonprofit organizations, yet they do hundreds of millions of dollars worth of contract work with the US gov each year. How do they do it?
4. Find the notes on this subject, which were done in the past.
5. Where are the RFPs and RFQs listed that companies and organizations bid on?
6. Identify books and articles about bidding on governemnt contract offers.
7. Were ONA contracts referred to below bid, or awarded due to cronyism?
Quote from an Aug. 20, 2013, USA Today article, Pentagon analyzes potential China-India tensions :
"The Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment is continuing its focus on China as one of the nation's primary future trouble spots, and it has commissioned two studies of Chinese relations and intentions, military contract records show.
ONA is a Pentagon think-tank chartered with the task of studying potential trouble spots and shaping the military response to them. It has long predicted problems with China over the nation's growing military and demand for natural resources to fuel its manufacturing economy. A Washington Post report in August 2012 quoted a foreign policy strategist calling ONA the "Office of Threat Inflation" for its fixation on China and promotion of a military strategy called Air-Sea Battle.
STORY: U.S. model for a future war fans tensions with China and inside Pentagon
In recent weeks, the office has commissioned studies on "Mining the Gaps in Chinese Strategic Discourse" for $199,800 from a Georgia company called Joint Management Services, which is run by Georgia Tech professor Michael Salomone, and a $220,000 contract to the Hudson Institute, a conservative Washington think-tank, for a study on issues in the strategic contest between China and India.
The Hudson Institute, which contains several ONA alumni, has a long record of viewing China's activities with concern and skepticism. Recent articles published by Hudson scholars include those titled "China's Growing Challenge to U.S. Naval Power," "Beware a Revanchist China" and "China's Cyber Spies are Stealing More Than Secrets."