"Initially founded in 1946 by Stanford University as The Stanford Research Institute, it's now separate from the university and goes by SRI International."
https://www.businessinsider.com/sri-international-2016-3
"Silicon Valley-based SRI International is one of the world's leading independent research and technology development organizations. Its mission: World-changing solutions to make people safer, healthier, and more productive."
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sri-international
"SRI's focus areas include communications and networks,computing, economic development and science and technology policy, education, energy and the environment, engineering systems, pharmaceuticals and health sciences, homeland security and national defense, and materials and structures."
https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/SRI_International
"In July 1995 the CIA declassified, and approved for release, documents revealing its sponsorship in the 1970s of a program at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, to determine whether such phenomena as remote viewing "might have any utility for intelligence collection" [1]."
https://www.newdualism.org/papers/H.Puthoff/CIA-Initiated%20Remote%20Viewing%20At%20Stanford%20Research%20Institute.htm
"The organization was founded as the Stanford Research Institute. SRI formally separated from Stanford University in 1970 and became known as SRI International in 1977. SRI performs client-sponsored research and development for government agencies, commercial businesses, and private foundations. It also licenses its technologies,[2] forms strategic partnerships, sells products,[3] and creates spin-off companies.[4]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRI_International
"SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute) is organized around broad disciplines and capabilities, from research and development divisions and labs to groups who excel at identifying new opportunities, developing products and creating custom solutions."
https://www.sri.com/about-us/
"Stanford Research Institute (SRI) is a central institution in the history of operations research and the management sciences (ORMS). SRI researchers contributed to the theoretical and technological foundations upon which today’s analytics practices are built. They worked on projects for a diverse set of clients, including ones in the military, finance, commercial recreation, travel and tourism, manufacturing, and transportation."
https://www.informs.org/Explore/History-of-O.R.-Excellence/Non-Academic-Institutions/Stanford-Research-Institute
"For 75 years, SRI has led the discovery and design of ground-breaking products, technologies and industries – collaborating across technical and scientific disciplines to generate real innovation and create high value for our clients."
https://www.sri.com/