ANSER is a nonprofit corporation specializing in innovative and actionable solutions to the complex national security challenges facing our nation. We have longstanding partnerships with our government clients, where ANSER employees serve as analysts, subject matter experts, and project managers, spanning a multitude of disciplines that impact national security. Our independent status enables objective, rigorous analyses and advice free from political or commercial influences.
ANSER’s strengths lie in its dedicated workforce, whose diverse knowledge, experiences and backgrounds share common ground in a strong work ethic embracing excellence and respect.
ANSER delivers expertise to government clients to prevent, protect against, prepare for, mitigate, respond to, and recover from the threats posed by weapons of mass destruction—including nuclear, biological, and chemical threats. We provide guidance, operational support, and strategic analysis to defense, intelligence, and homeland security organizations to strengthen national resilience against WMD threats.
ANSER assists government clients in addressing critical national security risks across the Nuclear Enterprise. We provide expert support in nuclear policy, sustainment, surety, exercises, and interagency coordination. Our work ensures readiness, resilience, and performance in a rapidly evolving global threat environment.
ANSER plays a vital role in advancing the government’s efforts to build and sustain a robust Defense Industrial Base by strengthening DoD industry partnerships, mitigating vulnerabilities, and incentivizing the industrial base to rebuild, reform, and expand. We support government and industry in developing next-generation manufacturing, conducting research in critical technologies and identifying emerging technologies.
ANSER recognizes the importance for the nation’s critical missions to operate effectively, unabated by natural and deliberate hazards or incidents. Our comprehensive risk assessment process identifies critical assets, threats, vulnerabilities and interdependencies to assure mission readiness and functionality. We design risk reduction strategies that include immediate, mid-term and long-term solution sets.
ANSER provides expertise and experience for all matters relating to the information enterprise, such as cybersecurity, communications, and information systems. Our team excels in policy, technical, and strategic input in support of national security systems, defense business systems, and information resources management.
ANSER supports the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense with analysis, mission operations, and technology integration. ANSER specializes in analytic tradecraft, data exploitation, and operational planning that strengthen situational awareness and mission effectiveness—delivering trusted solutions to today’s most complex intelligence challenges.
ANSER’s capabilities are broadly applicable to the missions of Federal Civilian agencies. We provide program management, information systems, training, Workforce Development and policy/governance to various agencies including the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department, the U.S. Marshals Service and the Department of Commerce.
ANSER provides comprehensive program management and governance support to various agencies from field operations through the executive levels. Our program management capabilities encompass all program types, and our collaborative approach ensures that we and our clients share a mutual understanding of the needs, processes and strategies to effectively rectify each concern. Our support spans a wide swath of issue areas, including nuclear deterrence, countering weapons of mass destruction, treaty compliance, and managing the defense industrial base. The latter taps into our experts in cybersecurity, legislative affairs and analysis, foreign military sales and strategic communications.
ANSER’s knowledge management and digital solutions efforts include identifying, collecting, and analyzing disparate data stores to provide our clients with the information and tools needed to make critical defense strategy and public policy decisions. Our skilled engineers, data scientists, researchers and policy experts distill massive volumes of data into actionable information.
ANSER provides the confidence, clarity, and partnership clients need to turn Artificial Intelligence (AI) disruption into mission success. We are a trusted partner who offers proven expertise, objective guidance, and a systems approach to AI integration. ANSER’s AI service offering delivers AI model- and tool-agnostic capabilities.
ANSER provides support across the DoD enterprise to ensure that the future of the American workforce has the skills and resources that are critical to sustaining a strong and agile Defense Industrial Base. We support a whole-of-government framework, advising on overcoming critical skills gaps and helping to create novel approaches to strengthening the workforce.
ANSER customizes training programs that ensure relevant and effective training is designed for our clients’ needs. We analyze their mission requirements and craft tailored programs that may include large-scale organizational exercises, leadership development scenarios, acquisition training, or tabletop scenario planning. We have provided training in the areas of force protection, homeland and civil defense and general workforce development training.
ANSER harnesses the power of spatial data to solve real-world problems by leveraging traditional and emerging agile systems engineering methodologies to develop and manage enterprise systems that capture, store, analyze, and visualize spatial data. We specialize in designing, implementing, and managing complex spatial information technologies throughout a system’s lifecycle to ensure seamless technological interfaces provide accurate and valuable insights across various systems and applications.
At ANSER we excel in deconstructing highly complex and large scale problems or issues into manageable components, resulting in the identification, understanding and impact of the causal interrelationships. We include risk factors as integral parts of developing an innovative and tailored mission strategy. Our analytic methods produce impactful and practical solutions developed specifically to meet our client’s needs.
ANSER’s secure Conference Center at our headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, is conveniently located just minutes from Federal offices in Washington, D.C., the Pentagon, and both metropolitan D.C.-area airports. We accommodate small, medium and large meeting groups with our various meeting rooms, breakout areas, secure storage facilities and state-of-the-art high-definition displays and videoconferencing capabilities. For additional information, please contact us here.