Aircraft industry research for the Air Force

In 1947 — one year after SRI was created — the newly formed Economics Division took on the institute’s first of many projects for the United States Air Force.

Studying the nation’s growing aircraft industry, SRI experts identified emerging roadblocks to quickly scaling aircraft production in the case of a national emergency.

Source: Gibson, Weldon B. (1980). SRI: The Founding Years. Publishing Services Center.


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