skunkworks project

Eventually, the skunk works project (code-named "Eagle") becomes the company's only hope in catching up with DEC.

The terms originated with Lockheed's World War II Skunk Works project.

But she said the building had been devoted to both engineering and research and development and was not used exclusively for the top-secret Skunk Works projects.

Rumors about a Skunk Works project involving a cruise-missile-like UCAV had been circulating for a year or two before the announcement.

So Chris [Emura] and I started a ZFS port as sort of a skunk works project."

In fact the Pacific tech's Graphing Calculator project, NuCalc, at Apple Computer was not a skunk works project but a bootleg project.

His job played havoc with his social life ("He has an air about him," as Dogpatchers tactfully put it), and the name of his famous facility entered the modern lexicon via the Lockheed Skunk Works project.

Almost as a skunk works project, they produced a layered product for VMS called UCX (Ultrix Communications Extensions) which later evolved into "TCPIP Services for OpenVMS".

Britvich was eventually joined by several other developers, and the renamed AlphaWorld continued to develop as a skunk works project at Worlds Inc, internally competing with a similar project known internally as Gamma and publicly as Worlds Chat.