Editing Office of Net Assessment (section)

{{Short description|Department of Defense threat assessment group}}
The '''Office of Net Assessment'''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/net-assessment-united-states|title=Net Assessment: United States|website=Worldview.stratfor.com|access-date=26 March 2019}}</ref> ('''ONA''') was an agency of the [[United States Department of Defense]] created in 1973 by [[Richard Nixon]] to serve as the Pentagon's "internal [[think tank]]" that "looks 20 to 30 years into the military's future, often with the assistance of outside contractors, and produces reports on the results of its research".<ref name=WashPo>{{cite news|title=Director of Net Assessment|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/director-of-net-assessment/gIQAMsUC5O_topic.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110183704/http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/director-of-net-assessment/gIQAMsUC5O_topic.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 November 2013|newspaper=[[Washington Post]]|access-date=17 March 2014}}</ref> It was abolished by Secretary of Defense [[Pete Hegseth]] in 2025.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Insinna |first=Valerie |date=2025-03-13 |title=Hegseth 'disestablishing' Office of Net Assessment, Pentagon's strategic analysis specialists |url=https://breakingdefense.com/2025/03/hegseth-orders-disestablishing-of-office-of-net-assesment/ |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=Breaking Defense |language=en-US}}</ref>