About Us
Who we are...
Spartan Solutions International, is a strategic entity, which is an affiliat of the CARVER Training Institute, a leading global security training and intelligence advisory firm. Established in 2010, the institute is headquartered in Vienna, Virginia with satellite offices in Florida, Alabama, and London. We are proud to be the leading experts in the CIA's CARVER Methodology... training thousands of students from law enforcement, military, the intelligence community, academia, and over two dozen Fortune 500 companies.
CARVER+ has a unique US Government defense contracting capability in Astra Solutions LLC. Established in 2020, Astra specializes in Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA), procurement, advisory, security, product prototyping and development services for the Federal Government and commercial customers. Astra is a certified HUBZone, Service-Disabled Veteran Woman-Owned Small Disadvantaged Business (SDVOWOSB, SDB).
Our CARVER+ software is the culmination of decades worth of global critical infrastructure experience, years of software development (all of it in Huntsville, Alabama by U.S. software engineers with government security clearances), and thousands of hours of beta testing by the toughest critics in the public and private security sectors.
Meet our leadership team...
Meet the people who you would work directly with for your CARVER+ software subscription.
See what people have to say about us...
For fifteen years, The CARVER Training Institute has been a global security consultancy based out or the Washington D.C. area. We have worked with nearly every U.S. federal agency in either a training, consulting, or research capacity. Hear what our clients have to say about us.
"At the CARVER Training Institute you are going to get the people who are the real experts."
- William Esposito, Former Deputy Director of the FBI
"After I officially retired from government service, I opened my own international security consulting firm, Jones Group International (JGI), to continue the fight. We have partnered with CTI on numerous projects, and we continue to use the CARVER methodology to help our clients identify where their operations are exposed."
- General Jim Jones, Former U.S. National Security Advisor
"The fact that the CARVER+ software is made in America - much of it in Huntsville by engineers with security clearances - gives us peace of mind."
- Senior Security Official at Redstone Arsenal
"I'm privileged to have had the opportunity to work with CTI - a team of professionals who understand intelligence, counterintelligence, and how to counter threats in ways that I have not seen through other companies."
- Michael Sulick, Former Chief of the CIA's National Clandestine Service
"The CARVER Training Institute and CARVER+ are revolutionizing the way security is performed here in the Middle East."
- Major General Yousef Mansour, Land Forces of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (retired)
