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The Wright Field guided missile work had demonstrated to our government clients that 有料盒子APP was much more than a management consultancy. We were a technology company as well. However, the U.S. Air Force did not want to entrust its intelligence strategy to non-technical organizations鈥攁nd given the highly classified nature of the work, we would have had to send our entire workforce through the government鈥檚 complex clearance process.