SPAR continues to be heavily involved in research and development activities. 

SPAR has been involved in several U.S.-sponsored government research and development projects:

• NSRP Project RA 2021-11 - Minimize Work Content in Production and Maintenance and Reduce TOC Using Early-stage Structural Design Optimization.

• NSRP RA Project 2017-443  - Ship Structural Design Optimization for Improved Producibility and Enhanced Life-Cycle Performance.

• PODAC Cost Model - Product Oriented Design and Construction Cost model.

• FIRST - A MARITECH project using the first principles of design driving the Cost Estimating Process.

• MASE 21 - A MARITECH project synthesizing expanded early stage design and Parametric Cost Estimating.

• Modular Tanker Consortium - A MARITECH project synthesizing early stage design and Parametric Cost Estimating.

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