In January of 2007, Advancia Corporation was acquired by Potawatomi Business Development Corporation, (an American-Indian owned Business Developemnt Company) Under the agreement, Advancia will continue to operate at 14 locations across the US, under its current management. Previously known as LB&M Associates Inc, Advancias stock in trade is to use it diverse professional capabilities in computer science, physics, electrical and electronics engineering, mathematics, mechanical, systems and control engineering to form multidisciplinary R&D teams able to tackle complex projects. Areas of technical focus include: Software Engineering; Modeling and Simulation; Artificial Intelligence; Training Technologies; Training Simulation and Information Technologies. Advancia successfully graduated from the 8(a) program in 2000