Institute for Defense Analyses reviews

IDA leadership and staff remain steadfastly committed to the mission: answering the most challenging U.S. security and science policy questions with objective analysis leveraging extraordinary scientific, technical, and analytic expertise. Staff feedback is important to us as we strive to continually improve. We are concerned and disappointed to hear your thoughts regarding the loyalty to our mission and encourage further dialogue to understand examples and context in an effort to fully address them. We seek to empower all staff to come forward with concerns, and can only work to address them when open conversations take place. For any current employees who may share similar concerns, we urge you to share them with us via one of the many available resources, including but not limited to divisional/directorate leadership and code of conduct reporting (see the IIS). IDA’s uniquely flat structure allows for issues to be addressed quickly and at senior levels within the organization.

Early career staff are essential to continued success and future generations at IDA. We are always looking for opportunities to improve employee experience, and take all communicated feedback seriously. We urge all IDA staff to engage with their workplace communities. Employee Resource Groups are a great opportunity to not only meet colleagues outside of your immediate working group, they serve as an important tool for providing feedback and accountability to leadership on DE&I issues. We also encourage all IDA staff to engage with both your division/directorate management and HR (additional information available via the HR Service Center) to learn about the many learning and development resources we offer. This includes educational assistance and tuition reimbursement for qualified staff, regular educational seminars and guest speakers, numerous wellness webinars, opportunities to attend professionally relevant conferences and events, and more. Staff should also bring forward development opportunities they are interested in pursuing.