System Planning Corporation
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Arlington, Virginia | |
Key people | Ronald L. Easley, Founder and CEO |
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Products | National Security Research, Electronics, Computer Software |
Website | www.sysplan.com |
System Planning Corporation (SPC) is a
History
SPC had its direct predecessor Systems Planning and Research Corporation, headquartered in Maryland, which started its
The conference room of SPC was also used for meetings of the Society for Operational Research, to which Viktor Vasilyevich Lozenko, a Soviet KGB officer under the cover of diplomat also belongs. In September 1980, Lozenko bugged the conference room and acquired highly important intelligence about the current and future deployment of US nuclear weapons in Europe, American chemical weapons, US navy's chances of survival in a nuclear conflict and US position on SAALT-2 talks and even Pentagon officials' classified report entitled Current Status and Trends in the Advancement of the US Nuclear Front in the Central European Theater of War in which US mobilization capabilities, the effectiveness of laser guidance systems, plans for the destruction of 730 tons of chemical weapons and other important information. The operation ended because the bugging device finally ran out of power.[4]
Contracts
SPC is one of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)'s largest support contractors and has supported DARPA virtually continuously since SPC's founding. SPC provides Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance, and support services to most of DARPA's Technology Offices.
SPC has a long involvement with the
As of 2014, SPC has contracts for
- SEAPORT-e, the Navy's electronic platform for acquiring support services in 22 areas, including engineering, financial
- a GSA Mission Oriented Business Integrated Services (MOBIS) schedule GS-10F-0350M
- a GSA information technology (IT) contract GS-35F-0320W [5]
Fields of interest
- Radar cross section analysis
- Arms control
- Ballistic missile defense
- Homeland Security
- Continuity of government
- BiologicalWarfare
See also
References
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20130310024258/http://www.wsmr.army.mil/RCCsite/Documents/Enhanced%20Flight%20Termination%20System%20Study,%20Phase%20I-IV/EFTS-02.pdf%7CArchived copy of the "ENHANCED FLIGHT TERMINATION SYSTEM STUDY PHASE I – IV REPORTS" by the "Range Commanders Council". Retrieved August 26 2021, original copy dated March 10 2013.
- ^ Ronald Easley (n.d.). "From the Founder & Chairman". System Planning Corporation. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
- ^ Howard, William E. The Capital’s Top Private Industry, Missiles and Rockets, August 31, 1959, vol. 5, no. 36, p. 20.
- ISBN 0-465-00310-9.
- ^ SPC (n.d.). "SPC-Doing Business". SPC. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
External links
- System Planning Corporation Official website