About CENTRA
CENTRA employs a diverse, well-trained staff with expertise in economics, political
science, international security, military affairs, and technology issues, as well
as in homeland security, analytic methods, and open source analysis. Our staff of
over 560 professionals includes specialists with backgrounds in national security
analysis, the military, homeland security, engineering, research and development,
and many areas of the social sciences and humanities. Our managers have run large-scale
programs advising US Government agencies on what the future may hold, including
programs examining a host of transnational issues, homeland security, the long view
of global security affairs, and the "science of surprise" as revealed in the emerging
analytic methodologies of the past decade.
More than half of our staff members hold advanced degrees in fields such as political
science, international relations, economics, law, engineering and the sciences,
and national security. 90% of our employees hold at least a BA/BS undergraduate
degree. Our analysts have served in a wide range of operational, policy, and analytical
positions in the US Government and private industry, including the National Security
Council, US Armed Services, Department of Homeland Security, and law enforcement.
Our personnel have outstanding research skills, academic credentials, and foreign
language capabilities. We have area or language expertise on many regions of the
world, and on countries such as China, Korea, Japan, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Colombia,
Iraq, and Iran. CENTRA staff have native- or professional-level language capabilities
in 18 languages and have worked and lived in over 40 countries. Our technical capabilities
include the fields of electrical, mechanical, aeronautical, and aerospace engineering;
physics; mathematics; chemistry; computer programming; and information sciences.
Our internal staff is augmented by a network of well over 3000 senior experts, including
corporate executives, university professors, technical experts, and retired government
officials and military officers. These experts help CENTRA provide complex, multi-dimensional
assessments of evolving and future aspects of various regional and subject specific
areas of concern.
CENTRA maintains a number of strategic alliances with other companies, and we have
broad experience both as a prime contractor leading teams of large and small businesses
and as a member of other vendor teams.