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It's funny that there is always so much debate on every new weapons platform and program, and yet we are losing the biggest battle ever, right under our noses with little to no fanfare. Millions of federal employees just became juicy espionage targets. This is the kind of thing that should have...

http://airminded.org/2008/06/04/moniac-and-the-warfare-state/ One of the interesting things about this is that the prototype of this 'analogue hydraulic computer' was built out of spare Lancaster parts!

Built by Osaka Imperial University and Syowa Kookuu-keiki Co.Ltd., likely on a Imperial Japanese Navy contract. Note that postwar the Japanese use the American spelling for analyser, i.e. analyzer. There are a couple of pictures at the original article. It had an older (completed in 1942)...

"Northrop Grumman Awarded Contract to Develop Miniaturized Inertial Navigation System for DARPA" PR Newswire Northrop Grumman Corporation June 5, 2014 8:30 AM Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/northrop-grumman-awarded-contract-develop-123000677.html

From Insidedefense Newsstand; USAF Winds Down Blue Devil Program While Preparing Response To Hill Posted: Jan. 22, 2014 The Air Force's recent experiment in intelligence sensor fusion known as the Blue Devil program is in the process of winding down -- but congressional interest in the...

http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-internets-save-the-date-a-tiny-item-in-a-ucla-stu-898064971 http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-arpanet-1969-1989-in-one-gif-1258090851

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9240230/Fear_of_thinking_war_machines_may_push_U.S._to_exascale Chinese and European efforts much bigger monetarily. This is what is frustrating about government when you spend money on everything you claim to have no money for programs like this. I mean...

I thought this would fit in well here: http://www.cpushack.com/space-craft-cpu.html

The National Security Agency is designing a new $895.6 million supercomputing center that will be constructed at its Fort Meade, Md., headquarters over the next several years, Department of Defense budget documents reveal. The NSA's new High Performance Computing Center, slated to be complete by...

DARPA to develop microscale navigational gyro for guided munitions and hand-held devices Posted by John Keller ARLINGTON, Va., 29 April 2010. Navigation and guidance experts at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., are asking industry to develop a...

Hello....... Could someone please supply more info on this system? Its the TSA-D2 by Zeiss. Its an sight/computer that was tested on an Me 262 A2, date unknown. It was to be used in place of the Lofte 7D (?). The system was comprised of 3 primary components. The sight, a 'control computer'...