Federally funded R&D center

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

1956-01-01year known, day not recorded

Pentagon-funded FFRDC (est. 1956) whose Communications Research Division at Princeton did NSA cryptologic work. Jim Simons was a codebreaker there in the 1960s; in UAP-podcast lore Harald Malmgren is said to have used IDA as an NSC-adjacent cover. A real institution that structurally links the Simons and Malmgren threads.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "uap". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.

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← Jim Simons names a source we do not hold

worked in IDA's Communications Research Division (Princeton) as an NSA codebreaker in the 1960s

Wikipedia (Jim Simons); IDA
← Harald Malmgren names a source we do not hold

reportedly used IDA as an NSC-adjacent cover (podcast claim, uncorroborated)

UAP roundtable podcast (program-tracker panel)
← DARPA names a source we do not hold

IDA provided technical analysis for ARPA and administered the JASON group

Institute for Defense Analyses / JASON history

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Federally Funded Research and Development Center. ADMINISTERS FFRDCs, and is not itself the centre: Center for Communications and Computing, Science and Technology Policy Institute, Systems and Analyses Center Source: NSF/NCSES Master Government List of FFRDCs, February 2026 list, read 2026-08-21 by web fetch (third provenance grade - not rendered and read by eye).