"ORAU believes that diversity is a strength in any setting—government, academia, corporations, and communities. Our mission is to put this belief into action by creating innovative ideas, attracting exceptional people, and achieving impressive results."
—Ron Townsend, ORAU President
To achieve greater diversity awareness, ORAU has established three central objectives:
- Maintain a workforce that is knowledgeable of, understands, and respects individual differences by employing proactive measures to ensure ORAU employment and personnel actions are reflective of its diversity principles.
- Train workforce on diversity and the advantages of a diverse workforce by offering required diversity training, educational programs, and awareness events and celebrations
- Infuse diversity into ORAU’s DNA by integrating diversity principles into applicable policies, business processes, and practices to the point that diversity initiatives become a fundamentally natural process vs. just a program
ORAU's success in these efforts has been impressive:
Workforce diversity: Expanded recruitment methods to continually increase the percentage of minorities and women in professional and management positions.
Education partnerships: Accomplished impressive minority and female participation in scientific and technical education programs and facilitated research and education collaborations in emerging technologies.
Subcontracting: Achieved outstanding success in exceeding subcontracting goals with small, small disadvantaged, small woman-owned, and HUBZone businesses.
Community outreach: Contributed funds and employee time to local schools and community organizations.
