RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT / SEPTEMBER 1975
The next discovery may begin in another division.
A corporate research perspective
The organization of knowledge matters almost as much as its discovery. A material developed for an orbital instrument may find an application in a medical device. A technique for managing communications traffic may offer a new approach to coordinating industrial production.
Vulpecula’s shared research programs give scientists and engineers access to colleagues beyond their immediate specialty. Thinking Machines support that exchange by helping teams connect findings, compare approaches, and identify questions that deserve a closer look.
The result is a research culture in which an idea has more than one possible destination. For customers, it means the experience behind a product can be considerably broader than the name of the division on its label.
ENERGY & POWER SYSTEMS / SEPTEMBER 1975
A more thoughtful approach to keeping the lights on.
From our energy and infrastructure teams
A power network is a changing relationship between generating equipment, transmission capacity, local conditions, and the needs of its users. Improving one part is valuable. Understanding how the parts behave together is more valuable still.
Our energy teams combine generating and distribution expertise with the operational perspective of Thinking Machines. Maintenance planning, demand changes, and equipment condition can be considered within the same working picture.
This is the practical value of cooperation across the corporation: the experience of power engineers, control specialists, and computing teams brought together around a service people rely on every day.
SPACE & ADVANCED AEROSPACE / AUGUST 1975
What we learn beyond Earth belongs in everyday life.
A perspective on connected research
Space programs bring demanding requirements into sharp focus: materials must perform, instruments must remain dependable, and every part of an operation must work with the others. Meeting those requirements develops knowledge with uses well beyond a single mission.
Vulpecula’s aerospace teams work with colleagues in communications, medical systems, materials, and intelligent computing. Their experience moves in both directions, strengthening space programs while bringing new approaches back to terrestrial applications.
For us, exploration and practical service are connected parts of the same undertaking. A wider horizon can lead to a better answer to an everyday question.
