In 1998 Applied Research Corporation was acquired by SM&A Corporation. Applied Research Corporation (ARC) is a high-technology company specializing in research and development, technical support services, and software development. The firm's major areas of strengths are in atmospheric sciences, astrophysics, geophysics, space sciences, computational chemistry and computer-related services Applied Research Corporation develops and distributes scientific and technical software to academic, commercial and federal, state and local government entities, through ARSoftware Corporation. The company provides high-speed full-service link to the internet through ARInternet Corporation. The company also offers internet services like hosting of web pages, collection of customer equipment, database integration and other customized applications and design and installation of turnkey WWW servers. The company also conducted research and development through ARInstruments relating to development of technique and instrument and Bio-Uvb meter for measuring biological effects of solar UVB. The customers of the company include NASA, Huges Corporation and government agencies. Applied Research of Maryland (ARM), part of ARC, has been acquired by Space Applications Corporation and has become the Applied Research Division (ARD)
