Re: A silly question maybe,


Message posted by JoenTX on August 30, 2010 at 23:59:24 PST:


The U.S. defense industry does seem to have some of the most ethereal and illogical methods of assigning project names, no doubt. However, quite obvious why the do so.....it's so effective.

Look at the "Senior" header used to describe purportedly some possible projects of extreme sensitivity.....Senior Trend, Senior Peg, Senior Citizen, etc. In English, "senior" generally tends to refer to items of advanced age or decrepit-ness and, in particular, people. "Senior" can also just as easily refer to those of extra experience or items of advanced state but it's not the first most common reaction to the word.

Tacit Blue? The term "tacit" in English means open, overt, uncovered, unhidden, without guard or cover. Yet, the program the name was chosen to represent was very covert and secret. Then we have the "Blue" term used again in a secret program. One could surmise that "blue" is a generic term used within the secret halls to identify any airborne platform under test. Maybe....maybe not, just curious. Are secret Army programs so often laden with the "Brown" term? What does the Navy have to say about the term "blue" having been comandeered by the USAF for sensitive programs?

Then we have the entire TIER episode where the word "tier", meaning level or grade, can so easily be mis-understood with the abbreviation used to identify former U-2 aircraft as in a continuing series of the TR-1 program.

Oh well.

I've also read that the naming structure for many programs is a purely mathematical/computer generated creation where-in a mixture of various benign random words are sent through the proverbial blender and the results are consumed entirely for vagueness sakes......Leaping Granule.......Obscure Skillet......Random Bandit......Preying Bulldozer......etc.

Who knows?


In Reply to: A silly question maybe, posted by rjt on August 29, 2010 at 11:57:49 PST:

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