News Releases

Recent News Releases

  • The Office of the Secretary of Defense, Personnel and Readiness releases the CNA-authored 38th annual report on military demographics: Population Representation in the Military Services Fiscal Year 2010

  • CNA hires Ken McGinnis and Karl Becker as directors in charge of developing and managing CNA’s work in the field of corrections

  • CNA promotes two senior analysts to its Center for Naval Analyses leadership team: Keith M. Costa, Ph.D., to vice president and director of CNA Advanced Technology and Systems Analysis; and Eric V. Thompson, Ph.D., to vice president and director of CNA Strategic Studies.

  • CNA signs agreement with Penzance to lease 175,000 square feet of space in a new office building planned for 3001 Washington Blvd. in Arlington, Virginia’s Clarendon community.

  • CNA is selected by the U.S. Department of Education Institute for Education Sciences (IES) to manage the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Appalachia through 2017.

  • Adm. Gary Roughead, recently retired Chief of Naval Operations, and Dr. Daniel Domenech, Executive Director of the American Association of School Administrators and former superintendent of Fairfax County Virginia public schools join CNA's Board of Trustees.

  • CNA workshop to help further White House goals of strengthening support for U.S. military families worldwide 

  • Christopher J. Winslow to serve as CNA’s Chief Financial Officer, senior vice president and Treasurer

  • CNA to host a workshop to help create a research agenda pertaining to the development and well-being of the millions of children who are members of U.S. military families.

  • Carol Lee Graham, Brookings Institution scholar and University of Maryland professor, joins CNA’s Board of Trustees

  • CNA and Oxfam America release An Ounce of Prevention: Preparing for the Impact of a Changing Climate on U.S. Humanitarian and Disaster Response – their report outlining how climate change will likely lead to an increased need for humanitarian assistance, often with serious security implications.

  • CNA Education researchers will be among the presenters at the upocming American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting

  • CNA releases an updated version of its web-based Retirement Choice Calculator that allows military Service members to determine which Department of Defense retirement plan will best serve their needs—a decision that could cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars in retirement benefits.  (See the CNA report Retirement Choice: 2011)

  • The Department of the Navy renews its contract with CNA for operation of the Center for Naval Analyses as the Department’s Federally Funded Research and Development Center