System Planning Corporation
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System Planning Corporation is a Virginia
based corporation that conducts research and produces electronics and computer software for the United States Department of Defense
and other federal government agencies in the support of National security
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SPC is one of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's largest support contractors. The company has supported DARPA virtually continuously since the company's founding. SPC provides systems engineering, technical analysis, and support services to most of DARPA's Technology Offices.
SPC also has a long involvement with the U.S. stealth program. SPC designed and fabricated one of the first specialized radar cross section measurement radars used to validate the low observable signatures of stealthy vehicles. SPC continues to produce RCS measurement systems,currently the MK V, which are now principally used by the U.S. to provide quality assurance for deployed aircraft and ships, including the F-117A and B-2 bomber.
The company's fields of interest have included:
Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...
based corporation that conducts research and produces electronics and computer software for the United States Department of Defense
United States Department of Defense
The United States Department of Defense is the U.S...
and other federal government agencies in the support of National security
National security
National security is the requirement to maintain the survival of the state through the use of economic, diplomacy, power projection and political power. The concept developed mostly in the United States of America after World War II...
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SPC is one of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's largest support contractors. The company has supported DARPA virtually continuously since the company's founding. SPC provides systems engineering, technical analysis, and support services to most of DARPA's Technology Offices.
SPC also has a long involvement with the U.S. stealth program. SPC designed and fabricated one of the first specialized radar cross section measurement radars used to validate the low observable signatures of stealthy vehicles. SPC continues to produce RCS measurement systems,currently the MK V, which are now principally used by the U.S. to provide quality assurance for deployed aircraft and ships, including the F-117A and B-2 bomber.
The company's fields of interest have included:
- Arms controlArms controlArms control is an umbrella term for restrictions upon the development, production, stockpiling, proliferation, and usage of weapons, especially weapons of mass destruction...
- Ballistic missile defense
- Homeland Security
- Continuity of governmentContinuity of governmentContinuity of government is the principle of establishing defined procedures that allow a government to continue its essential operations in case of nuclear war or other catastrophic event....
- NuclearNuclear warfareNuclear warfare, or atomic warfare, is a military conflict or political strategy in which nuclear weaponry is detonated on an opponent. Compared to conventional warfare, nuclear warfare can be vastly more destructive in range and extent of damage...
, ChemicalChemical warfareChemical warfare involves using the toxic properties of chemical substances as weapons. This type of warfare is distinct from Nuclear warfare and Biological warfare, which together make up NBC, the military acronym for Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical...
and BiologicalBiological warfareBiological warfare is the use of biological toxins or infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi with intent to kill or incapacitate humans, animals or plants as an act of war...
Warfare - Radar cross sectionRadar cross sectionRadar cross section is a measure of how detectable an object is with a radar. A larger RCS indicates that an object is more easily detected.An object reflects a limited amount of radar energy...
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