Steven T. Huff Inventions Information

Steven T. Huff (born 1951) is an American multi-millionaire astrophysicist, inventor and philanthropist, who after his careers in the United States Army and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) founded defense intelligence related companies he eventually sold using the money to build one of the largest homes in the United States named Pensmore, and who is now retired and runs his private independent Pensmore Foundation dedicated to philanthropy, voluntarism and grant making.

Huff grew up in Scottsville, Virginia moving to the Ozarks when he was 10, after which he attended Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia graduating Summa Cum Laude and receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in physics. He then attended California Institute of Technology where he received his Master of Science degree in physics and became a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. After leaving university, Huff served in the U.S. Army Intelligence Agency from 1975 to 1978, after which he served in the CIA from 1979 to 1983. After leaving the CIA, Huff was a co-founder of BDS, Inc. (a Sterling, Virginia based computer reseller valued at $27 million) that, in 1992, merged with BDS Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Titan Corporation). In 1985, Huff, also, founded Sensor Systems, Inc. as a consulting operation merging it with, in 1993, another company he founded named Overwatch Systems, Ltd. that delivered multi-source intelligence to the United States Department of Defense and where he served as its vice president and Chief technology officer (CTO). In 2009, Huff sold his companies Overwatch Geospatial Systems and Overwatch Tactical Operations to Textron Systems for what The Kansas City Star said was a gazillion dollars.

In 2008, Huff bought TF Concrete Forming Systems and began construction of one of the largest homes in America named Pensmore, which is still under construction and is located in the Ozark Mountains near Highlandville, Missouri.

In 2005, Huff founded the Pensmore Foundation whose National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) are listed as Philanthropy, Voluntarism and Grantmaking Foundations: Private Independent Foundations”.

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