Univac Defense Systems: From Codebreakers to Standard Military Computers From WWII to 1970

This webinar presents the history of Military computers from the very first electromechanical codebreaking machines of WWII through the first Tube machines of the 1940s and early 1950s to the transistor & early integrated circuit machines of the late 1950s & 1960s. We learn of the roots of Univac Defense Systems (now part of Lockheed Martin) as the leading military computer company and how those roots were driven by the Navy’s OP-20-G communications intelligence group responsible for breaking Japanese, German, and Italian codes in WWII before becoming the NSA during the cold war. We watch the development of the Naval Tactical Data System, its computers, and how went on to serve Navy, Marines, Air Force, NASA, and FAA.
Speaker(s): David Bondurant,
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/441924