Analytic Services Inc. (ANSER)is a not-for-profit public service institute that provides objective studies and analyses to aid decision-makers throughout the national security, homeland security, and public safety communities. Services are delivered through its two operating units: ANSER and the Homeland Security Institute (HSI).

In 1958 the Air Force needed a technically qualified, objective organization close to the Pentagon, able to respond on a day-to-day basis to identified needs for unbiased studies and analyses focused on science and technology. Analytic Services Inc. was born – with the assistance of the RAND Corporation. Although we've broadened our client base since then, we've never lost sight of our reason for being: meeting decision-makers' needs for timely, objective analysis.

We are a public-service research institute, an independent, not-for-profit corporation chartered in California.

We are your trusted advisor. For nearly fifty years we have continued to provide research and analysis services to inform the decisions that shape the Nation’s future. Systems thinking is fundamental to our analytic approach and adds a distinguishing benefit to all that we do as we help our clients face and manage a more complex world.

We serve with pride our clients in the defense, intelligence, and homeland security communities.

We have over four hundred researchers and analysts – working with our clients, at our headquarters in Arlington, VA, or at two other offices located in Colorado Springs, CO, and Hampton, VA.