Ben Rich's son, Michael Rich, was the president and CEO of RAND Corporation for decades.
RAND was the Santa Monica-based, federally funded research and development center evaluating the prospects of Project Orion,
Not coincidentally, RAND has also conducted comprehensive research on the non-engineering side of deep space travel,
RAND Corporation also happened to be intensely interested in the gravity-manipulating deep space propulsion work of Townsend Brown.