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Re:The ties between Silicon Valley and the military run deep by huffmsa on Saturday June 09, 2018 @10:07AM (#17273078)
It's seems like more than a coincidence that the first and most primary AWS installation was built at Dulles Airport in 2002-2003.

Right down the road from the newly formed and growing DHS alphabet soup of agencies.

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Re:The ties between Silicon Valley and the military run deep by hodgesrm on Saturday June 09, 2018 @10:35AM (#17273225)
I always figured it was because of Internet connectivity, as Dulles is near the original MAE-East network access point (NAP).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAE-East

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