Word: radars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Snark also convinced Jones of the need for a pulse-taking computer to run a continuous inspection on every missile. From that experience Northrop developed its intelligent Datico, which checks out not only the Polaris but half a dozen Army missiles as well as the flight-control and radar-identification systems on Air Force planes...
Raytheon Co., Massachusetts' biggest employer, is 85% in military work, has switched its radar expertise from air defense to missile defense...
...parlayed its World War II radar-directed antiaircraft gun control system into prime contracts for the Nike series (Ajax, Hercules, Zeus) of antiaircraft and antimissile rockets. Defense business last year was 27% of sales of A. T. & T.'s manufacturing subsidiary...
Microwave Associates, a small company on Boston's famed Route 128, does 70% of its $9,000,000 business in microwave components for aerospace computers and radar. Its new Veractor-a silicon device the size of a spring pea-makes possible reception of signals from 10 million miles out in space...
Died. Sigurd F. Varian, 60, ex-chairman of California's Varian Associates, a one time barnstorming pilot whose distaste for blind flying led him to invent (with two partners) the klystron tube, the high-frequency heart of radar development; in a private-plane crash; between Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico...