The Goddess Shines on America

After thinking about it, Alice thought it would be better to answer this way: "In terms of power armor, the advice I can give is that before the country's basic industry reaches the nanometer level, there is no need to even think about this product."

Then, she glanced at her watch again and said, "So in order to save time, let's talk about this issue later, let's talk about other ideas?"

Duties similar to chief designer or technical consultant are nothing more troublesome for Alice, and these people in the Pentagon, after seeing their achievements in the field of programming and excellent scientific imagination, will certainly not let Meeting results are limited to paper. After all, he is a businessman, so it's better not to continue wrangling with politicians.

"Other ideas, of course there are many."

Weinberg continued to flip through the documents in his hand, and said: "According to our understanding, you ordered a large number of products from General Dynamics during the filming of "Alien 2". The alien terrain vehicle and armored vehicle used in the movie , and even the landing machine, you handed over the design drawings to them and made them directly, right?"

"That's right, those blueprints were all designed by myself, but they were only designed as movie props. It is not an easy task to transform them into mature military equipment."

Slightly pointing out the well-known purpose of each other, Alice turned to smile and said: "For example, the power armor we just talked about, its real thickness is only one millimeter, and it is difficult to block the 5mm submachine gun bullet. However, If it is really necessary to increase the thickness, or use high-strength materials under the premise of retaining the thickness, the cost and technical content will naturally increase."

An army general spoke at the right time: "That's right, but your suit of armor is not just a movie prop, but an expensive finished product. So I have a question, how did you design the joints? "

This question can be said to be of interest to every technical nerd audience who has carefully watched "Alien 2", and some newspaper comments have spoken. From the clothing details of the marines in the movie, everyone can clearly see that this suit of armor is not just steel sheets on the leather jacket, but a real metal connector. Then the question arises, how did the designer make the body movements of the wearer so dexterous?

"The blueprints were drawn by me, and the finished product was made by a mechanical designer of our crew, Wen Yan, sextant."

Alice said truthfully: "He is a former employee of General Dynamics. He has studied in Caltech and MIT respectively, and his technology is very good."

After this answer, everyone didn't ask questions immediately, but digested and absorbed it first. Alice was not in a hurry, she looked at her watch, it was still early for dinner.

After a moment of silence, Secretary of Defense Weinberg laughed, "You designed it again."

This sentence is the highlight.

The meeting room was once again ruled by relaxed laughter, just at this moment, the door of the meeting room was suddenly opened, and a handsome middle-aged man hurried into the room: "Damn it, no one told me that Alice has arrived?" ?”

"Oh, Commissioner Fryer."

Alice stood up and shook hands with him. Isn't this the Director of National Security, Dominic Flair, whom she had just chatted with last night?

"Oh, Alice, I'm sorry, I was busy with other work just now."

Fryer happily shook hands with Alice, and then looked at all the members: "Where is the topic? Clark and Lockheed haven't arrived yet?"

Alice raised her eyebrows, and immediately swept around.

Of the two people mentioned by Fryer, the latter undoubtedly refers to Oren Lockheed, the rich second generation of the company who increasingly controls real power in the company, and the future CEO. As for the former Clark, since Fryer and Lockheed are tied together, it is obviously the then CEO of General Dynamics, William Clark.

Well, everyone here is a little embarrassed.

So, Dominic Flair was late on purpose?

"Oh, that's right, I almost forgot."

As if suddenly realizing it, Minister of Defense Weinberg patted his head: "The two of them are still in the hotel, let me see..."

"Sorry, sorry, the hotel just had a power outage, and none of us got a call."

It was almost like a stage play, with characters appearing one after another. Before Weinberg could finish his sentence, a handsome young man strode into the room. If it wasn’t Oren Lockheed, who was it?

"Ah, Oren."

Alice shook hands with him in surprise and said, "So you're here too, and...Mr. Clark, hello."

He is followed by a mature middle-aged man with a bushy black mustache on his upper lip. After walking into the conference room, he first glanced at the soldiers who were full, then nodded to Alice and said, "Meet you again, Ms. Wang, I have already watched your "Alien 2", it is indeed a very good movie." movie of."

Facing this middle-aged man, Alice also had a very stable image, shook hands with him and said: "Without the support of General Dynamics, I would not be able to show so many excellent equipment in the movie, thank you very much Your."

It seems that the situation seems to be somewhat clear.

In fact, when Alice saw that it was Weinberg waiting for her in the conference room, instead of Fryer, who she chatted with last night, she was already a little muttering.

Then at this moment, first, Flair broke in suddenly, using busy work as the reason for being late, and then used the lame interface of "the hotel was out of power and did not receive a call", and then the two people who entered the house...

Emotions, is this a struggle within the military?

Undoubtedly, at this moment, the focus of topics in the room was on Alice. Facing the two big arms dealers who came here, and the military people in the Pentagon, she sighed helplessly: "Okay, you adults, don't you just want me to work hard for you?" ?"

In a word, when the fifteen-year-old girl said it easily, everyone felt a little embarrassed.

But then, she shrugged her shoulders very easily and said: "But it doesn't matter, those who can do more work, as long as you can provide enough remuneration, I don't mind developing some high-tech equipment for the military. Tell me, Minister Weinberg, and Minister Fryer, what do you need for me to design, and let their two companies develop it, and tell them all."

"Haha, Alice is really refreshing."

The momentary silence seemed as long as 10,000 years, and then was interrupted by Flair with a happy smile. He found a chair at random and opened his mouth: "I just reminded you last night, Alice, how is the firewall developed? How about it? We are all in a hurry to use it!"

With such a mouth like his, the atmosphere in the room suddenly became active again. Many military generals did not speak again. Defense Minister Weinberg interrupted with a dry cough: "You are right, the hacker spent a long time yesterday on the security department. In the end, the address was thrown to Australia. Fortunately, he only had time to hang out on the outer network, otherwise we would have suffered huge losses."

Alice learned about the relevant situation last night, and she didn't bother to pay attention to this past tense: "It has reached the stage of physical hardware testing. From November last year to now, we have let offline manufacturers manufacture After five generations of equipment, each update can improve the performance by 30% on average. If you are in a hurry, I will speed up and probably provide you with the finished product in April."

As expected, both Weinberg and Flair smacked their lips.

The technology and products of "Internet Security Protocol and its related hardware" are completely different from the military industry they have always been familiar with. Hearing that the five generations have been updated in a few months, Weinberg couldn't help being curious: "Could it be that the first Can’t one generation be used? Do you have to experiment again and again? How much difference can there be between them?”

"On the one hand, it is software. This security agreement is like a law. We can make many regulations on data transmission methods, but there must be many blank areas that have not been taken into account. Just like legal loopholes, clever criminals will always take advantage of it." There are loopholes in it. The biggest engineering effort when we develop firewalls is actually the constant editing and re-editing of security protocols."

Seeing Weinberg's sudden realization, and Flair's thoughtful expression of agreement, Alice shrugged and said, "Actually, the main workload is here. You know, every time the protocol is updated, the software volume will increase. There are a lot. Our current hard disk is not developed enough to use GB as a conventional unit, and the speed of the processor is the same. Once the software changes, the hardware part must also be redesigned.”

After talking so much, Weinberg understood the situation even as a layman. He stroked his chin thoughtfully: "In other words, every renovation will make the performance of the firewall better..."

"...Alice, let me ask two questions now. First, can the current fifth-generation firewall block the hacker you encountered last time? Second, if we wait until June to order your sixth-generation firewall Will the first-generation and seventh-generation products have better performance?"

"I'll answer the second question first, yes."

Give an affirmative answer first, because for the previous question, Alice also has a big head: "Ordinary intrusions are definitely no problem, but for those experts, I can't guarantee you absolutely. After all, no matter how many times I update , it is still a product that has not really experienced actual combat, even during the research and development period, our Cisco programmers will make simulated attacks, but after all, the limitations are too great."

Weinberg is not reluctant, for the current Pentagon, as long as there is a firewall, it is a hundred times safer than living in a bare wooden house.