It was run under contract by Johns Hopkins University[1] and is regarded as one of the founding institutes of operations research as an interdisciplinary science.
The organization's offices were originally at Fort McNair, Washington, D.C.
In 1961, the Army discontinued Johns Hopkins University's contract, and the ORO was dissolved.
Soon after, the Research Analysis Corporation (RAC) was founded, which assumed the ORO's projects and most of its employees.
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