The radiation lab you mentioned second played a key role in developing early computers for early air attack warning systems - I think it was called "Lincoln Laboratory" at the time.

Seems to me that given all this activity which you list, one thing that the administration could do is take developing the air trafiic control system from FAA, which has managed to bungle it for two decades now, to the point where air traffic safety is in danger, and turn it over to NASA, and NASA then subcontract it out around Boston...

Nah, makes too much sense... of course, I'm not intimately familiar with the recent details either, so I could be wrong...

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