In January 1946 industrialist Donald Douglas approached the Army Air Force with a plan for government and industry to work together on long-range strategic planning.
This was called Project RAND, a name coined by Arthur Raymond from Research ANd Development.
Much of their first government money went to the von Braun team.[McDougall, Walter al. …” the Heavens and the Earth, A Political History of the Space Age,” Basic Books, New York, 1985, p. 89.]…
(Note: RAND Corp. was also involved in expanding some of the upper levels of the Dulce, New Mexico underground biogenetics research facility, according to Thomas Castello. – Branton)