# Military Origins of Silicon Valley **Entity class:** Concept **Research spine:** [[research/Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research|Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]] ## Definition The military origins of Silicon Valley describe the institutional chain from wartime laboratories and federal research funding through Stanford's classified electronics work, research park, defense suppliers, and semiconductor firms. ## Chronological Proximity The chain runs from the 1942 [[wiki/Radio Research Laboratory|Radio Research Laboratory]] through the 1950s Stanford–Palo Alto research park and into [[wiki/Fairchild Semiconductor|Fairchild]] and Lockheed. ## Relational Proximity [[wiki/Fred Terman|Fred Terman]] carried wartime networks into [[wiki/Stanford University|Stanford]]; [[wiki/Applied Electronics Laboratory|AEL]] supplied classified research; [[wiki/Stanford Industrial Park|the park]] supplied geography; defense procurement supplied early demand. ## Collection Routes [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]] · [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]] · [[wiki/Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software|Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[research/Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research|Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research]].