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To: elmatador who wrote (71102)	11/11/2007 2:14:58 PM
From: Webster Groves	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

<GPS, CDMA, VSATs, opto-electronics> I don't agree that just because a technology appeared in civilian applications in the 90's that it derived from a cold-war dividend. GPS is technically ancient, and the degraded civilian version was around during the cold war itself. CDMA was developed from IS-95 and ANSI standards, hardly a military origin. Qualcomm was in California but Eriksson was not. Opto-electronics has been around for 40 years, and VSATs have been around since the early 80's - cold war still on. You are attempting to establish a military link to civilian technologies where none necessarily exists. Certain the DOD gets the research dollar first, but generally no benefit ensues to mankind until someone else comes up with a civilian ap. DARPA funded the first Internet but not specifically for military use. I was at a university at the time and had full access. It wasn't until the World-Wide-Web was invented that Internet use took off - and that was done at CERN in Europe. Furthermore, just because political controls on technology exist doesn't mean there is a dividend when the controls are lifted. In my area of expertise, political controls are worse than ever. So instead of buying something from a US manufacturer, the "other guys" buy it somewhere else. The good from all this has been the rise of domestic space electronics and propulsion in Europe when formerly they bought a lot of stuff from the US. wg