"For administrative purposes, JASON's activities are run through the MITRE Corporation, a non-profit corporation in McLean, Virginia, which contracts with the Defense Department." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JASON_(advisory_group)
G. MacDonald (Chairman) H. Arbarbanel P. Carruthers J. Chamberlain H. Foley W. Munk W. Nierenberg O. Rothaus M. Ruderman J. Vesecky F. Zachariasen The long term impact of atmospheric carbon dioxide on climate JASON April 1979 Technical Report JSR-78-07 prepared for U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, D.C. https://fas.org/irp/agency/dod/jason/co2.pdf
"William Aaron Nierenberg (February 13, 1919 – September 10, 2000) was an American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and was director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1965 through 1986.[1] He was a co-founder of the George C. Marshall Institute in 1984. (...)" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Nierenberg