type private sub . lockheed martin industry defense founded san diego 1973 headquarters san diego california key people dr. daniel alspach co founder dr. harold stevenson co founder dr. jim meditch co founder revenue 52 million usd 2003 number of employees 250 2003 website www.orincon.com lockheed martin orincon corporation originally orincon corporation international is a systems integration and information technology company that supports lockheed martin s position in the intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance isr industry . history edit orincon was established in 1973 in san diego by university of california san diego professors dr. daniel alspach and dr. harold sorenson and uc irvine professor dr. jim meditch . operations began in 1975 with three government contracts . during the cold war orincon helped design the sosus tracker system to follow the soviet ballistic missile submarine . convinced of the significance of sosus alspach wrote i see this as part of the chain that ended the cold war . the sosus was so successful that the russians had to spend tremendous amounts of money trying to quiet their subs to avoid detection . at the same time they spent a great deal trying to counter u.s. president ronald reagan s star wars technology . this with the inherent inefficiencies of their socialistic economic system broke the bank and led to the collapse of the soviet union . indeed soviet spies john anthony walker and jerry alfred whitworth in the u.s. navy revealed to the russians that their submarines were noisy and thus easily detectable . this knowledge led to the development of quieting technology that russia later sold to china . in 1990 orincon s primary business was antisubmarine warfare ; however the u.s. navy deprioritized antisubmarine warfare technology spending in anticipation of the end of the soviet union . despite the hardship of transformation in the 1990s orincon grew by 25 percent in 1998 . in fact until lockheed martin acquired orincon in june 2003 orincon experienced growth every year since its inception . orincon s customers have included but are not limited to the united states navy department of transportation national cancer research institute and the federal aviation administration . orincon developed the intelligent vehicle sensor as part of its airport classification and tracking system acats . from 1990 to 1998 there were five fatal ground collisions on u.s. airport runways and in 1996 there were 280 near misses . the sensor was installed at long beach airport to track airplanes on the ground to avoid runway incursions . external links edit ucsd alumni profile daniel l. alspach lockheed martin official website v t e lockheed martin divisions and subsidiaries current lm aeronautics lm canada lm information technology lm mission systems and sensors lm missiles and fire control lm orincon lm global training and logistics lm space systems lm transportation & security solutions lm uk sikorsky aircraft skunk works former lm systems integration owego savi technology joint ventures united space alliance united launch alliance facilities goodyear airdock knolls atomic power laboratory lm space applications laboratory michoud assembly facility sandia national laboratories active products a2100 aegis aerotext asroc atacms atlas v rocket c 5 c 130j space shuttle external fuel tank force hawk f 16 f 22 f 35 gps block iiia jassm javelin jcm hellfire himars meads milstar mlrs muos nimiq orion spacecraft under development p 3 predator missile sbirs thaad sniper xr t 50 trident missile u 2 category commons retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title lockheed martin orincon & oldid 719888672 categories lockheed martin navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 12 may 2016 at 11 39 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view