Innovation at SPA

Supercharging our experts to push boundaries

Supercharging our experts to push boundaries

SPA has a longstanding tradition of providing innovation for our clients. It’s part of who we are.

From the early days over 50 years ago when a handful of employees established SPA as a trusted partner to the US Navy, to today’s workforce of over 2000 employees serving clients across the Defense, Intelligence, and Homeland Security markets, SPA invests in innovation to bring approaches and strategies to our clients quickly and efficiently.

SPA's Office of Innovation is a place where innovative ideas are identified, nurtured, developed, delivered, and eventually deployed.

SPA's Office of Innovation is a place where innovative ideas are identified, nurtured, developed, delivered, and eventually deployed.

Accelerating our delivery of new capabilities and offerings to our clients

Bringing ideas to life for our clients
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Crafting approaches and strategies across our diverse client base
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SPA’s engaging work environment and inclusive culture foster new ideas.

And we never stop pushing the boundaries of where those ideas can take us.

Office of Innovation Mission

The mission of the Office of Innovation is to rapidly develop an innovative idea to address a single client’s issue, and then push that result further to extend to a broader application, with the ultimate goal of providing a fully integrated approach that can be applied across multiple markets and domains.

SPA’s Office of Innovation is a place where innovative ideas are identified, nurtured, developed, delivered, and eventually deployed.

Accelerating our delivery of new capabilities and offerings to our clients

Bringing ideas to life for our clients

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Crafting approaches and strategies across our diverse client base

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SPA's Athena: Mission plan and wargame via an interactive digital surface that Integrates geospatial, infrastructure, and operational data
SPA's TBAT tool seamlessly augments existing cost estimating processes.
SPA's ARCHER: Use quantitative metrics and proven MBSE principles to evaluate mission effectiveness

Our innovations help our clients make better decisions

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SPA's Office of Innovation serves as an accelerator and an enabler of new technologies and infrastructure as our clients are executing their mission.

SPA's Office of Innovation serves as an accelerator and an enabler of new technologies and infrastructure as our clients are executing their mission.

Applying data-driven analysis to the most pressing problems

Here are some examples of areas where our innovatives can help our clients:

Applying data-driven analysis to the most pressing problems

Here are some examples of areas where our initiatives can help our clients:

  • Impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning on national security
  • Digital transformation and program management in digitally native environments
  • Model-based systems engineering
  • Influence of cloud platforms on how strategies are developed and delivered

Facilitating Collaboration

Facilitating Collaboration

The Office provides the means to combine the unique strengths of our subject matter experts across a broad range of capabililties and domains AND combine each individual’s vision into a unified, mission-driven vision.

The result? A collaborative, more comprehensive approach than what an individual could accomplish alone, taking maximum advantage of technology and with more rapidly delivery.

Office of Innovation Leadership

Three senior leaders with very diverse backgrounds aligned to our expansive vision of what innovation means for our clients and SPA

Ryan Monson, Software Development Fellow
Ryan Monson

Software Development Fellow

Ed Stewart, Systems Engineering Fellow
Ed Stewart

Systems Engineering Fellow

Jeff Braun, Director of Strategic Development
Jeff Braun

Director of Strategic Development

Office of Innovation Leadership

Three senior leaders with very diverse backgrounds aligned to our expansive vision of what innovation means for our clients and SPA

Ryan Monson, Software Development Fellow
Ryan Monson

Software Development Fellow

Ed Stewart, Systems Engineering Fellow
Ed Stewart

Systems Engineering Fellow

Jeff Braun, Director of Strategic Development
Jeff Braun

Director of Strategic Development

Office of Innovation Leadership

Three senior leaders with very diverse backgrounds aligned to our expansive vision of what innovation means for our clients and SPA

Ryan Monson, Software Development Fellow
Ryan Monson

Software Development Fellow

Ed Stewart, Systems Engineering Fellow
Ed Stewart

Systems Engineering Fellow

Jeff Braun, Director of Strategic Development
Jeff Braun

Director of Strategic Development

Learn more about our Fellows
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how SPA facilitates innovation to solve our clients' challenges

Learn more about
how SPA facilitates innovation to solve our clients' challenges

Every Employee Can Play a Part!

Every year, SPA staff is invited to contribute their creative ideas through the Technical Innovation Initiatives process.
Selected ideas can be developed into major corporate projects.
A row of SPA employees engaging during a meeting

Every Employee Can Play a Part!

Every year, SPA staff is invited to contribute their creative ideas through the Technical Innovation Initiatives process.
Selected ideas can be developed into major corporate projects.

Some of our past innovation initiatives include

Some of our past innovation initiatives include

Economic Security Analysis Tool (ESAT)

Enables national security professionals to analyze and compare relevant global economic and financial data to inform policy making decisions.

Economic Security Analysis Tool (ESAT)

Enables national security professionals to analyze and compare relevant global economic and financial data to inform policy making decisions.

Production Process (2Pro) Model

Manpower production process tool to plan, route, schedule, and deliver trained people on time to the right place.

Production Process (2Pro) Model

Manpower production process tool to plan, route, schedule, and deliver trained people on time to the right place.

Athena Tactical Command

Wargaming modeling and simulation tool providing force on force and real-time collaboration for any domain.

Athena Tactical Command

Wargaming modeling and simulation tool providing force on force and real-time collaboration for any domain.

Learn more about SPA's innovative software tools
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Hear from our
Office of Innovation leaders

The Office of Innovation provides a central node to help facilitate collaboration across our organization and to serve as a central point for innovation and innovative ideas to be nurtured and developed and delivered.
SPA Fellow Ed Stewart
Ed Stewart,

Systems Engineering Fellow

As we've grown as a company, what we found is that we now have the resources to put a focused effort on bringing better and grander innovations to bear to solve some of the nation's and our allies' biggest challenges.
Jeff Braun, Division Director at SPA
Jeff Braun,

Director of Strategic Development

We plan on developing new capabilities. [This] will help differentiate SPA by providing enhanced efficiency, new custom client solutions, data-driven decisions and by supporting their digital transformations.
SPA Fellow Ryan Monson
Ryan Monson,

Software Development Fellow

The Office of Innovation provides a central node to help facilitate collaboration across our organization and to serve as a central point for innovation and innovative ideas to be nurtured and developed and delivered.
SPA Fellow Ed Stewart
Ed Stewart,

Systems Engineering Fellow

As we've grown as a company, what we found is that we now have the resources to put a focused effort on bringing better and grander innovations to bear to solve some of the nation's and our allies' biggest challenges.
Jeff Braun, Division Director at SPA
Jeff Braun,

Director of Strategic Development

We plan on developing new capabilities. [This] will help differentiate SPA by providing enhanced efficiency, new custom client solutions, data-driven decisions and by supporting their digital transformations.
SPA Fellow Ryan Monson
Ryan Monson,

Software Development Fellow

Learn more about our Fellows
Hear from our
Office of Innovation leaders

The Office of Innovation provides a central node to help facilitate collaboration across our organization and to serve as a central point for innovation and innovative ideas to be nurtured and developed and delivered.

SPA Fellow Ed Stewart

Ed Stewart,

Systems Engineering Fellow

As we've grown as a company, what we found is that we now have the resources to put a focused effort on bringing better and grander innovations to bear to solve some of the nation's and our allies' biggest challenges.

Jeff Braun, Division Director at SPA

Jeff Braun,

Director of Strategic Development

We plan on developing new capabilities. [This] will help differentiate SPA by providing enhanced efficiency, new custom client solutions, data-driven decisions and by supporting their digital transformations.

SPA Fellow Ryan Monson

Ryan Monson,

Software Development Fellow

Learn more about our Fellows
More on our Fellows
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