The United States Army Foreign Science and Technology Center (FSTC) was an intelligence production agency located, for much of its existence, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
FSTC produced scientific and technical intelligence concerning ground forces weapons, equipment, and technology of foreign armies.
[3] The predecessor agencies had grown out of the intelligence staffs created in the offices of the Chiefs of the Army Technical Services shortly before World War II.
[7] On 1 October 1995, the National Ground Intelligence Center was confirmed as an official, permanent Army organization by INSCOM P0 234–1, 1995.
A count of the entries in the October 1963 telephone directory showed 348 persons working at FSTC and its "field activities."
Official documents concerning FSTC from its founding through 1983 are listed in an official Historical Data Card[9] The Tables of Distribution and Allowance listed on the Historical Data Card show the strength of FSTC.