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 United States Facilities 1. Introduction Although the primary threads of the LEGACY are in St. Paul Minnesota, 'out-of-state' manufacturing facilities were developed to take advantage of better labor rates and lower workman's compensation rates. The marketing organization had small offices with full time representatives in cities where our major customers had home offices. |  On this page, scroll down to:Introduction [left] Manufacturing facilities Customer Site Locations - Rockville, MD; Valencia, CA; Warminster, PA; etc. Technical Services Division (TSD) - Newport, RI; Manassas, VA; Moorestown, NJ; Kings Bay, GA; San Diego and Mare Island, CA and Norfolk/Virginia Beach, VA; and China Lake California. Marketing Offices 
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2. Manufacturing Facilities In addition to the Twin Cities' plant 1, plant 2, plant 4, and plant 5, plants were developed elseqhere for special purposes.
2.1 Salt Lake City, Utah
Magnetic Tape Units, Peripheral Equipment, and Communications Equipment Manufacturing Univac SLC had ties to Lockheedwhile the facility reported to St. Paul. One significant link was the sale of the data link communications system by SLC to LMSC, Lockheed Missiles and Space. The Program was PELSS. I received a Tiger Award for participating as the local marketing rep. I also assisted SLC in preparing the proposal as well as the technical briefings. Headquarters Marketeer was the same Sidney Park Rundell who later became the GM of DSD. Jim Harte headed up the SLC operation, Harry DuChene and John Gilder were the SLC engineers on the PELSS program.
Lyle Franklin
2.2 Clearwater, Florida
Shipboard Computer Manufacturing
2.3 Pueblo, Colorado
Airborne Computer Manufacturing
2.4 Others
Clear Lake, Iowa - Printed Circuit Card Manufacturing
Jackson, Minnesota - Printed Circuit Card Manufacturing
3. Customer Site Locations Teams also worked at customer sites throughout the United States for software development, training, and field service. One important factor in the company growth was development of the Technical Services Division. [lab]
3.1 Rockville MD In early 1990 IBM won a major contract from the FAA to develop the Advanced Automation System (AAS). The FAA intent was to integrate the functionality of the en-route centers, major airport tower control, and small airport tower control. Up to this time, IBM had had the systems/hardware/software contracts for en-route centers. Systems Development Corporation (SDC) had had small airport tower control systems/hardware/software contracts - SDC had been bought our by Burroughs a couple of years before Burroughs bought Sperry to form UNISYS. Sperry UNIVAC had had the systems/hardware/software contracts for the 64 major airport tower control systems.
In April of 1991 IBM's AAS team conducted a preliminary design review for the FAA. The FAA told IBM that they had the wrong answers for Tower operations, furthermore they had better bring in some systems engineers who knew what to do - such as those at UNISYS. With much chagrin, IBM contacted UNISYS VP Bill Marberg who told them that when a services contract letter arrived in St. Paul - he'd have systems engineers on site within the week.  Karen Maddock, a Program Manager from the former SDC, was assigned to IBM Rockville for negotiations.
On Friday morning, July 12, 1991 Mr. Marberg received a facsimile letter contract from IBM. The next Monday morning, three days later at 8:00 a.m., Lee DuBois, Marlin Jerpseth, and Lowell Benson from St. Paul were on site ready to work. IBM wasn't ready for us - but Bill and UNISYS had kept there word! During the next year, the group grew to 70 on site systems engineers who worked on specifications. These systems engineers came from St. Paul, a former SDC facility in Paoli, PA, a former Sperry facility in Reston, VA.
In the 1991 IBM and subcontractor photo at the right: Marlin Jerpseth is front row second from the left. Three rows behind him, second from the left is Karen Maddock. The third person to her left, the smiling big blonde Norwegian from St. Paul is Duane Amdahl - I believe that Phil Lau is two persons to Duane's left. About four rows behind Karen, third in from the left is Lee DuBois. Mike Kreischer from Reston is three rows from the back and three persons from the right. Others were Jim Jarosek, John Naleskawicz, Jerry Hanebuth, Jim Fowler, Richard Weingardner, Dennis Kisby, and Carlo Pagans - for some un-recalled reason I'm not in the photo. [lab]
3.2 Valencia
Just another thought on the subject website’s information….Sperry in Valencia CA also produced a Link-11 simulator for MELCO (Kamakura) in the 1983 – 1985 timeframe. I seem to remember this was in support of MELCO’s contract to do software for DD-58(?). I was the lead for this activity, also worked by Asao Doi (who was a former JMSDF officer who became a Sperry employee) and Bob D’Alo…and perhaps a couple more people I don’t remember at the moment. Carroll Hershey - Nipomo, CA
3.3 Sunnyvale CA This photo from Don Neuman shows the Sunnyvale site where UNIVAC/UNISYS supported the A.F. tracking all of the things orbiting in space. 3.4 PATUXANT River MD, Bill Scharf submitted the following sketch of the programming and support office.
3.5 Other Customer sites were:
China Lake CA, Burbank CA, San Diego CA, Johnsville PA, etc.
4. Technical Services Division In 1973, Sperry Univac Defense Systems Division VP & General Manager Dick Gehring formed Univac Technical Services (UTS), a field software and services division of DSD. UTS was established to be competitive with Computer Sciences Corporation, Logicon, and other software services companies who had a lower rate structure and were gaining market share at the expense of DSD. UTS labor, overhead and general & administrative rates were significantly lower that comparable DSD rates because DSD was primarily a hardware supplier with attendant fixed assets and R&D expenses.
UTS initially addressed the federal civilian agencies market and had field sites in Morris Plains, NJ, Roslyn, VA, Houston, TX, and San Diego, CA. UTS headquarters were in Eagan, MN. Dan Brophy was the first UTS General Manager and his staff included Ray Kot - Director of Operations, Dick Colby - Controller, Jerry Scovil - Manager, Human Resources, and Ernie Mutschler - Director of Marketing. In 1973 UTS had about 300 employees at the above field sites.
In September, 1974 Dan Brophy was transferred to Salt Lake City and Jim Rapinac, previously General Manager of Special Programs, Salt Lake City, replaced Brophy as General Manager of UTS reporting to Ernie Hams, DSD VP & General Manager, who had replaced Dick Gehring.
In 1975 UTS was renamed TSD, Technical Services Division, by Rapinac with the approval of Hams. The new name more accurately described a profit center. Later in 1975 all DSD field software sites were transferred to TSD to provide a larger base and pricing leverage in highly competitive government software services markets.
Rapinac’s senior staff included Pat Casey - Director of Operations, Monte Widdoss - Director of Marketing, Dick Colby and Jerry Scovil. By 1976 Major field sites included Warminster PA, Newport RI, Roslyn VA, Orlando FL, Raleigh-Durham NC, Valencia CA, Santa Maria CA, San Diego CA, PATUXANT River MD, and Houston TX. Regional Managers included Zeke Heller, Bill Sharp, Ray Davis, and Ernie Mutchler.
In 1978 TSD had grown from 300 people to over 1100 people, maintained a competitive rate structure, generated positive cash flow and a high return on assets employed and was very profitable. The additional value of TSD to DSD and other Sperry Defense organizations was that TSD personnel lived with the customer and could provide excellent marketing intelligence for systems and hardware procurements to these divisions.
In the summer of 1978, Dick Seaberg, who in 1976 had replaced Hams as DSD VP & General Manager, reorganized DSD and named Rapinac as DSD VP of Marketing. Pat Casey replaced Rapinac as TSD General Manager and continued the profitable growth of the division.
In 1984 Sperry Corporation reorganized its Defense business and formed Sperry Defense Products Group which included Sperry Gyroscope, Great Neck, New York, Communications Systems Division, Salt Lake City, and DSD . Dick Seaberg was named President of Defense Product Group (DPG.)
Joe Kroger, the President of Sperry Commercial Systems, recognizing the value of TSD in both government and commercial markets, assumed control of TSD. (Perhaps Larry Hazel can continue the saga of TSD from here - Rapp)
5. Marketing Offices
Key regional marketing offices for Defense Systems Division were: Washington, DC; 2121 Wisconsin and later in Crystal City VA. A large multi-person office covering all DOD military services, FAA and Civilian Agencies. Notable office heads included Bob Klein, hired and then fired by Gerry Probst, Don Greenawalt, Curt Rangen and Ralph Hughes. Other notables included Parker Folsom, Don Fagan, Mark Sigurski, Bud Soucy, Bob Bodenheimer, Gwen Harrington, Will Reisinger, Jim Chones, Taylor Zinn, and many, many others! Los Angeles - a 4 man office. Western Regional Managers were Roger Wise and later Norm Burnett.
San Diego - 2 man office, Peter Kawar and others. Cupertino, CA - Lou Dentino, others Dallas, Texas - one man office Dayton, OH - One man office, Sid Rundell, Ray Costello, others Waltham, MA - Lyle Gilbertson, Harry Traylor, Ed Blackburn, others Cocoa Beach, FL - Jim Seaborn, then closed. Huntsville, AL - for a short period of time. [Regards; Rapp]
VIP Page 72 updated 23 July, 2008
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