Message posted by lone wolf on June 25, 2004 at 0:29:30 PST:

I used to work for them in the dark ages, but the EG&G today is nothing like the EG&G when I was there. EG&G was a collection of small technology companies that usually had a bit of military or government business.

Some of the businesses were really boring, such as Rotron fans and Wakefield heat sinks. These companies exist today, but were sold off from EG&G
http://www.comairrotron.com/
http://www.wakefield.com/

EG&G had some instrumentation company called Princeton Applied Physics. It seems to be history. EG&G Oretc still exists
http://www.ortec-online.com/
as part of Perkin Elmer. EG&G Reticon, the CCD sensor company, also became part of Perkin Elmer.

To understand the company, you would probably have to find some old shareholders reports over the last 20 years. They traded companies like poker chips.

The EG&G today seems to be simply government services. The old EG&G was a scientific company that was part of every nuclear explosion done by the US. The EG&G triggers (something like a flash tube) were used in the early nukes and were the subject of many attempts to smuggle them out of the US. [Modern backyard nuke triggers can be built out of photocopier flash tubes, which fall under the dual-use export category.] EG&G Reticon made the high speed CCD cameras to record nuclear detonations.

I'm not sure how many of the EG&G founders are still alive, but I think they would be sad to see what became of the company. MIT professors really don't get too excited by security guards and trucking logistics.

In Reply to: was wondering about EG&G posted by Patrick on June 24, 2004 at 23:44:28 PST:

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