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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

The Army codebreaking group was the Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) at Arlington Hall. While unique for the time, this public-private partnership was in-line with the wartime experiment of Vannevar Bush’s OSRD – using civilians in universities to develop military weapons. A contract for a system named O’Malley followed.

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