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- From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
- Subject: Re: GPS, PC or non-PC?
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- Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 21:50:17 GMT
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- Sorry Greg ill and out on vacation.
- One does not discuss certain operational aspects of weapons systems in
- the clear. You can easily contact firms like NF, Black Diamond, Alpine
- Research (Ramer), they all have DoD contracts. All of them will tell you
- either
- 1) yes, we have such contracts but we are not at liberty to
- discuss them.
- or
- 2) Go away.
- Then so are Apple IIs used by the DoD and Apple will give you an either 1) or
- 2). Some stuff can be used out of the box, other stuff requires mods.
-
- You can contact the Pentagon via phone or mail and ask them for unclassified
- uses of GPS and the history of its development (interesting) or backpacking,
- camping, or climbing gear. The number via the federal telephone system is
- FTS 545-6700
- Ask for a public information officer.
- Some where around here is the Zip code......
-
- If guilt is on one's conscious:
- Why one of the most interesting spinoffs came from determining trajectories
- of artillery shells.
- Merely asking the question here biases the sample of readers.
-
- --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
- Associate Editor, Software and Publication Reviews
- Scientific Programming
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