Strategic Naval Research Institute

A military research organization established by the Earth Federation Forces in U.C. 0093, which incorporates a number of formerly separate research institutes and intelligence agencies. SNRI specializes in strategy, tactics, and weapons development, and goes on to propose the creation of a new line of highly compact mobile suits.

In U.C. 0111, the Federation Forces decide to adopt SNRI's Formula series for their next generation of mobile suits, and SNRI replaces Anaheim Electronics as the Federation's premier weapons developer. However, due to Anaheim's manufacturing expertise, the company's services are retained to put SNRI's designs into mass production.

History
Some time after events of Char's Counterattack, the Earth Federation established a new policy where they would be aware of their military strength, yet attempt to keep costs down during times of peace. At the same time, they were also concious that the traditional mobile suit developer Anaheim Electronics was undependable (as they frequently earned profit by trading weapons to both sides of the conflict). To resolve the problem, the in-house think tank Strategic Naval Research Institute (or SNRI for short) was created in UC 0093, employing civilian researchers while being funded and supervised by the Earth Federation Forces. Little else is known about the institute, other than it replaced Anaheim Electronics as the Federation's preferred mobile suit supplier in the late universal century. Their proposals are based on a theory that wars would be won based on smaller, higher-performance mobile suits. This eventually is showcased in their Formula Project series of Gundams, which hallmarks the formal arrival of the 2nd Era mobile suits.

The Federation's change of contractor choice eventually led to the downfall of Anaheim Electronics. In sheer desperation, Anaheim Electronics attempted to come up with competing designs by stealing blueprints of SNRI's Formula series, resulting in the construction of the less-known Silhouette Gundam, but that still failed to prevent Anaheim Electronics from losing its biggest client — the Earth Federation.

However, by the mid UC 130s, it is revealed in Crossbone Gundam Steel 7 that SNRI begins to face serious financial problems after they secretly donated their F97 models to the Crossbone Vanguard pirate force in order to help them fight against the Jupiter Empire.

Later in U.C. 0153, it is believed that the declined Anaheim Electronics sponsored anti-BESPA faction League Militaire, who used the basics of SNRI's mobile suits to produce their own mass-produced suits and the first mobile suit of the Victory series the LM312V04 Victory Gundam.

Formula Project

 * F70 Cannon Gundam
 * F90 Gundam Formula 90
 * F90A Gundam F90 Assault Type
 * F90D Gundam F90 Destroid Type
 * F90H Gundam F90 Hover Type
 * F90M Gundam F90 Marine Type
 * F90P Gundam F90 Plunge Type
 * F90S Gundam F90 Support Type
 * F90V Gundam F90 VSBR Type
 * F90II Gundam Formula 90 II
 * F90I Gundam F90II Intercept Type
 * F90L Gundam F90II Long Range Type
 * F90IIIY Cluster Gundam
 * F91 Gundam Formula 91
 * F97 (XM-X) Crossbone Gundam
 * XM-X1 Crossbone Gundam X-1
 * XM-X2 Crossbone Gundam X-2
 * XM-X3 Crossbone Gundam X-3
 * XM-10 Flint