From: 2025 RAND Wrap-Up: Research That Defined Our Year

…In 2025, that meant helping to build an even stronger, more ready, and more effective military. It meant helping decisionmakers understand and prepare for the risks and opportunities of rapidly advancing artificial intelligence. It meant offering innovative analysis and ideas to rebuild Gaza, achieve a ceasefire in Ukraine, and compete with China. It meant finding ways to reduce the federal debt burden and save American taxpayers trillions of dollars.

Here are just some of the ways RAND helped policymakers answer the challenges of 2025.

Strengthening the U.S. Military…