I agree with Nathan; FFRDCs are basically research labs. Compared to a traditional defense contractor, they are non-profit entitities and have some special deal with the government that they only take federal funding. That gets them out of some scrutiny for them trying to cheat the government, and allows them to be involved in evaluating regular contractors more-or-less-loyal-to-the-government. But they aren't part of the DoD, and there are non-DoD agencies.
I think landuse=military should be restricted to facilities controlled by DoD which have some military purpose, e.g. a base, and e.g. not a VA hospital. There's an interesting case in Massachusetts where MIT Lincoln Laboratory (LL) is on the ground of Hanscom Air Force Base. LL is an FFRDC (but MIT isn't). So that sounds like there should be a landuse=commercial polygon for the LL area, within larger landuse=military polygon. As a counterpoint to that near-military feel, I once visited another FFRDC (that does almost exclusively defense work) in a different state. That facility was a boring 2-story office building with a manicured lawn and parking lots located on a road with many such buildings, just like any small company, and distinguishable as an FFRDC only by the company name.
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