Practical Innovations International was formed in 1989 as an consulting firm. It is a Virginia disabled veteran owned small business corporation with past and present clients including the Aerospace Corporation, Arianespace, the Boeing Company, GRCI, Hughes Space & Comm, Israel Aircraft Industries, Lockheed Martin, Mitre, Northrop Grumman, TRW, and the US Air Force. PII has supported a wide variety of commercial, civil, defense, and national programs from early market research to fully deployed, operational systems.