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==Wartime origins of ERA== The ERA team started as a group of scientists and engineers working for the [[US Navy]] during [[World War II|WWII]] on [[Cryptography|code-breaking]], a division known as the '''Communications Supplementary Activity - Washington''' (CSAW). After the war budgets were cut for most military projects, including CSAW. [[Joseph Wenger]] of the Navy's cryptoanalytic group was particularly worried that the CSAW team would spread to various companies and the Navy would lose their ability to quickly design new machines.
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