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From: john@anasazi.UUCP (John Moore)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: spinoffs
Message-ID: <381@anasazi.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-Nov-85 10:59:09 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 29 10:59:09 1985
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In article <380@anasazi.UUCP> john@anasazi.UUCP (John Moore) writes:
>In article <8511191259.AA24626@decwrl.DEC.COM> redford@JEREMY.DEC (John Redford) writes:
>>
>>  There's been a lot of talk recently about spinoffs of high-tech 
And I wrote lots of reply. However, I forgot to mention two instances of
spinoff which I am personally involved in.

I used to work at a company which did Command and Control simulations for the
US Navy. In the process of this work, we developed a sophisticated
simulator program. At some point in this work, the USC Medical Center
in Los Angeles discovered that they had serious control problems in
their Emergency Room and Outpatient Clinic. They hired us to do the
operations research necessary to identify and correct these problems.
Our military OR work, and specifically that simulator, were then used
to solve their problems quite successfully.

I know a researcher in the radar field who has worked on FM military
remote sensing radars. He is now adapting that technology to geological,
mining and other commercial fields.

These may be little spinoffs, but multiply them by a few million
engineers and you get a lot of spinoffs. Just because you cannot point
to more than one BIG spinoff doesn't mean that the spinoff of all of
that military work isn't there. I would maintain that a large part
of the training and experience now in commercial high-tech fields
is a DIRECT result of military work.
-- 
John Moore (NJ7E/XE1HDO)
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