2004 RAND Annual Report

For nearly six decades, we at the RAND Corporation have been building on a legacy of accomplishments, adding new stories to the foundation and scaling heights that never could have been imagined at the outset. At times, our progress might have seemed imperceptible. But throughout it all, we have taken what we have learned, and we have kept growing and reaching beyond our last best success.

The roots of many of our accomplishments in 2004 can be traced to earlier decades. The pioneers of the Delphi technique, a groundbreaking RAND methodology of the 1950s, probably never envisioned the day when an underlying concept of their technique, first used to forecast future military technologies, would be used to assess the benefits of the arts. Equally unanticipated, our extensive work in securing the skies has spread, more than ever, to securing the seas. Meanwhile, our latest work in the field of human health has led to an utterly unprecedented area of inquiry regarding healthful versus unhealthful built environments.