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"DARPA has funded and/or developed such technologies as Arpanet (which led to the World Wide Web), driverless cars, robots, medical technologies, hypersonic flight and many other technologies either inspired by or directly related to defense problems."

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"This (and "The Pentagon's Brain") throw light on the processes and means by which long-term technological development is pursued."

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"R.V. Jones was tasked with gathering information on the enemy's technology and science and finding ways of integrating it into British technology or developing specific counter-measures against it. This book throws light on the way interaction with competing technologies influences technological evolution. In this case most of the technologies are related to radar, IFF or guidance of aircraft."

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"Perhaps the most important problem facing WWII British scientists and technologists was how to break to U-boat blockade. With the development of microwave radar (the cavity magnetron) a series of anti-submarine technologies evolved which resulted in the destruction of the German U-boat fleet. "

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"As Britain was choked for material resources by German U-boats and industrial resources by repeated bombing, they found they could no longer develop critical defense technologies fast enough. This resulted in the Tizard mission to a largely pacifist US. The gem of the technologies revealed through that mission was the cavity magnetron -- microwave radar. Because Roosevelt was severely hampered in offering political support to the British, a series of behind the scenes research projects was organized by tycoon Alfred Lee Loomis. He pulled together the best scientific minds of the time, funded them through his friends in industry (and his own pocket) to develop critical radar technologies without having to tap government funds."

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"This book is a little forgotten gem about what it was like to be at the leading edge of the development of the original "chain-home" and other critical British radar technologies."

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"Another book on the development of WWII radar technology - this one with a focus on development that was initiated at the MIT Rad Lab."

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"Blackett was a Physicist and Nobel Prize-winner who was largely responsible for the application of operational research to the evolution of technology. In a world where weapons and tactics were predominately driven by generals' pet projects. Blackett applied rigorous testing and measurement to channel military technology development in the most economically efficient, and tactically effective direction. The ideas of Blackett have taken root in industry and continued to evolve through practices such as Six Sigma."

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