Policy-planning Perspectives

With its unique perspectives on the policy-planning process, IFPA offers a wide range of services to meet the needs of business and industry, including:

• Analysis of defense-related policies and programs being developed by the U.S. government and by other governments and international organizations
• Government relations and public affairs
• Political risk analysis
• Competitor and teaming evaluation
• Opportunity identification and assessment
• Merger, acquisition, and joint venture assessments
• Strategic planning and implementation

Foundations and IFPA

Foundation grants provide a vitally important source of support to enable IFPA to undertake innovative, cutting edge projects.  Such work contributes to new thinking on twenty-first-century national security issues.

Current and Recent Foundation-supported Projects

• New Strategic Dynamics in the Arctic Region: Implications for National Security and International Collaboration
• Rethinking Deterrence for the Twenty-first Century
• The Implications of a Nuclear Iran for U.S. Security
• The U.S.-Japan Alliance and the Future of Extended Deterrence
• A Nuclear Weapon-free Korean Peninsula
• Disaster Diplomacy, National Security, and International Cooperation
• Global and Local Civil-Military Disaster Relief Coordination in the United States and Japan
• North American Homeland Security and Defense:  Enhancing U.S Joint Planning and Cooperation with Canada and Mexico in the War against Terrorism
• A Net Assessment of Space and U.S. National Security
• Missile Defense and Counter-proliferation Strategy