NERV Security

erv[1][2] is a paramilitary special agency nominally under the control of the United Nations. Nerv's official purpose is to lead the defense of mankind against the Angels, to stop them from initiating a Third Impact after the destruction that was wrought by Adam during Second Impact in 2000, through use of the Evangelions, which they constructed. Nerv is headed by Commander Gendo Ikari.
Officially, Nerv is a private organization under the direct supervision of the United Nations[3] , being granted limited authority over local administration, and, to an extent, over United Nations military forces as well. However, Nerv is essentially independent from the United Nations, apart from matters of funding. As a result of conventional military forces' inability to combat the Angels, the battle strategy is often left to the discretion of Nerv's highest ranking personnel without any direct external interference. Nerv is capable of guarding its own position through whatever means necessary, including sabotaging a rival defense contractor's prototype combat robot, "Jet Alone."
Nerv's ultimate, clandestine goal is to carry out the Human Instrumentality Project.
Nerv's origins lie in the research organization known as Gehirn, which was renamed and reorganized into "Nerv" in 2010 after its headquarters at Tokyo-3 and the Magi supercomputers were completed. Unlike Gehirn, whose existence was officially a secret (with the UN Artificial Evolution Laboratory serving as a front), Nerv is semi-public. Secretly, Nerv is backed by the mysterious organization Seele, a power cabal covertly controlling the United Nations. Nerv and Seele's ultimate goal is to eliminate the Angels so that they can use the Eva Series to carry out their plan to initiate Third Impact and elevate humanity to the next stage of evolution, as per the Human Instrumentality Project. However, Gendo Ikari has his own plans for initiating Third Impact, and secretly plots against Seele's machinations.
Nerv apparently makes or contracts out for production its own merchandise and accessories for its employees (like many real-world large organizations). In this episode we see coffee mugs and even disposable paper cups that have the "NERV" logo on them.