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Whiz Kids was a name given to a group of experts fromRAND Corporation with whichRobert McNamara surrounded himself, in order to turn around the management of theUnited States Department of Defense (DoD) in the 1960s. The purpose was to shape a modern defense strategy in the Nuclear Age, by bringing ineconomic analysis,operations research,game theory, computing, as well as implementing modernmanagement systems to coordinate the huge dimension of operations of the DoD, with methods such as the Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS). They were called the Whiz Kids, recallingthe group at Ford Motor Company that McNamara was part of in the 1940s and 1950s.
The group included, among others
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