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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

The Army codebreaking group was the Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) at Arlington Hall. Warlock was so large that it was kept at the ERA factory and operated as a remote operations center. ERA Disk Drives One of the problems code breakers had was the difficulty of being able to store and operate on large sets of data.

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

I used to work for a company located in Arlington, VA that had the CIA as a client. The Stanford records showed that his group received more funding than any other and I assumed it was for construction of these operational systems. Their code name was UTR (Up The River) in reference to their geographic location up the Potomac River.

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Meet our Startup Chica Committee Members

Austin Startup

Paulina Cabrera, Operation Coordinator for Solar Winds and Latinitas Volunteer Paulina Cabrera Paulina Cabrera grew up in Arlington, TX, but had the wonderful experience of living in Neiva, Colombia from 1997 to 2000. She is currently an Operations Coordinator at Solar Winds and volunteers for Latinitas. Austin, this time?—?to

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Several years prior to this my wife started a newborn photography business, over time I became more involved in the back end operations of the business and within several years had helped her grow her business into a full-time professional position. This lead to me needing to find a new career, and fast! 3- Solve a problem I encountered.

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Veteran-owned Business Closing The Gap Between Gender and Work Leadership Gaps

Hearpreneur

I came to the EDA at the very end of 1983, after working for a decade for Arlington County. At that time, development in Arlington was slowing down, while Fairfax County, which had a lot of land for development was becoming much more aggressive about attracting and retaining businesses and jobs, and generating wealth.

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@GeorgeMasonU Alumni @GloboxRentals Launch International Film Kiosk Startup

Campus Entrepreneurship

Vernon, Woodbridge, and Arlington and a 7-Eleven convenience store in Bowie, Md. This summer, Globox launched its first 10 kiosks, located in the Johnson Center, at various international grocers in Virginia Fairfax, Falls Church, Mt. There are a lot of good international titles, content, and movies out there,” Kassim explained.

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Austin, Meet Dallas

Austin Startup

By way of example, Tolleson Wealth Management , is a multi-family office operation that manages the affairs of more that 150 high net wealth families. These include UT Dallas , led by yours truly, the UT Southwestern Medical Center , and UT Arlington. And, there are many more like them.

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