The following presentation covers the role of/on government in area of technology.

1. ROLE OF/ON GOVERNMENT
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2. USES & APLICATIONS OF COMPUTERS IN GOVERNMENT
 Email Functions
 Distributing Payments
 Record Keeping
 Direct-Mail Promotions
 Defense
Government employees use computers for communication, word and data processing and project
management among other applications. Computers have become part of daily life, and like businesses and
individuals, federal and state offices use computers in their daily office operations. Various departments of the
Government use computer for their planning, control and law enforcement activities. To name a few – Traffic,
Tourism, Information & Broadcasting, Education, Aviation and many others.

3. EMAIL FUNCTIONS
 Government offices that have computers usually have some type of email system in place. Emails enable
government workers to compose, send or read emails from other workers and people outside the
company. For example, a state unemployment office employee might answer a person's question about
eligibility by email. This might inevitably save the worker time, as she would not need to speak with the
person by phone. Government employees might also use emails to distribute copies of reports or
presentations

4. DISTRIBUTING PAYMENTS
 State and federal offices use computers to distribute payments to people. These payments can be sent
electronically like most Social Security payments, or by check. For example, the Internal Revenue Service
will usually issue checks to people for refunds. Similarly, state treasury offices often send state refund
checks. Government offices also use computers to send or print disability, Medicare, Medicaid and other
payments. The checks are usually produced on various printers in the government offices.

5. RECORD KEEPING
 The government often hires computer programmers or database managers to maintain records of
employees and citizens, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Most of these records are kept in
large databases, which can store records of people's gender, age, address, phone number and other
important information. Government offices also keep records of dates, such as when people file taxes,
and amounts that are due and paid. Computer record keeping is an essential function for government
offices because of the need for accuracy and timeliness--like for Medicaid payments.

6. DIRECT MAIL PROMOTIONS
 Some government agencies or offices might use computers to produce various direct-mail advertising
campaigns. Government workers might produce these various documents on their computer, then have
them professionally done through their printing office. Government workers will use various name and
address files to arrange the mailing, then print them directly on envelopes or brochures. For example,
the United States Postal Service often uses direct-mail marketing programs to promote its various
products and services, such as commemorative stamps or Express Mail.

7. DEFENSE
 Controlling UAV or unmanned air-crafts an example is Predator. If you have cable I would recommend
watching the shows “Future Weapons" and “Modern Marvels". The show future weapon gives an entire
hour to the predator. They are also used on Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) that uses GPS and
Computers to help the missile get to the target. Computers are used to track incoming missiles and help
slew weapons systems onto the incoming target to destroy them. Computers are used in helping the
military find out where all their assets are (Situational Awareness) and in Communications/Battle
Management Systems. Computers are used in the logistic and ordering functions of getting equipments
to and around the battlefield. Computers are used in tanks and planes and ships to target enemy forces,
help run the platform and more recently to help diagnose any problems with the platforms. Computers
help design and test new systems.

8. IMPORTANT PERSONALITIES
 Alan Turing
 Sir Tim Berners Lee
 Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
 Elon Musk

9. ALAN TURING
 Alan Mathison Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an
English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and
theoretical biologist. Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical
computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts
of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a
model of a general-purpose computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father
of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.[10] Despite these
accomplishments, he was never fully recognized in his home country during his
lifetime due to his homosexuality, which was then a crime in the UK.

10. SIR TIM BERNERS LEE
 Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FRE FRSA FBCS (born 8 June 1955), also
known as TimBL, is an English engineer and computer scientist, best known as the
inventor of the World Wide Web. He is currently a professor of computer science at
the University of Oxford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He
made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989, and he
implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer
Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the internet in mid-November the same year.

11. DR. A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM
 Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (15 October 1931 – 27 July 2015) was an
India politician and aerospace scientist who served as the 11th President of
India from 2002 to 2007. He studied physics and aerospace engineering. He spent
the next four decades as a scientist and science administrator, mainly at the Defense
Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and Indian Space Research
Organization (ISRO) and was intimately involved in India's civilian space programme
and military missile development efforts. He thus came to be known as the Missile
Man of India for his work on the development of ballistic missile and launch vehicle
technology. He also played a pivotal organizational, technical, and political role in
India's Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998, the first since the original nuclear test by
India in 1974.[5]

12. ELON MUSK
 Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971) is a technology entrepreneur, investor,
and engineer. He holds South African, Canadian, and U.S. citizenship and is the
founder, CEO, and lead designer of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO, and product architect
of Tesla, Inc. co-founder and CEO of Neuralink and co-founder of PayPal. In
December 2016, he was ranked 21st on the Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful
People. As of October 2018, he has a net worth of $22.8 billion and is listed
by Forbes as the 54th-richest person in the world.

13. IMPORTANT INVENTIONS BY GOVERNMENT
 The Internet
 GPS (Global Positioning System)
 Weather Radar
 Computers
 Space Programme

14. THE INTERNET
 The World Wide Web that we know and love originally started life back in 1977 in the form of its
forefather the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET). This network technology, along
with TCP/IP became the technical foundation of the Internet as we know it today.
 Before this time, development of computer technologies were advancing to a point where in the 1950s a
concept was required for a wide area network to connect computers in science labs. It was the Cold War
though that led to the need for ARPANET and the beginning of the modern internet.

15. GPS (GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM)
 After World War II and the space race that came shortly afterwards, it wasn't long before mankind
started sending satellites into the atmosphere. In the 1990s, some of these satellites would be used for
a space-based radio navigation system that was originally owned and operated by the United States
government.
 This system was perfect for keeping soldiers safe on the battlefield but also for identifying targets,
improving mapping, tracking plane trajectories and more. As the technology expanded and improved it
has moved into the civilian world too.
 Now we're used to having GPS in our everyday lives - including navigation in our pocket thanks to the
invention of GPS capable smartphones.

16. WEATHER RADAR
 Radar is another technology we take for granted in everyday life. It's also another one that began its
inception in the 1800s when German physicists discovered that radio waves could be reflected from solid
objects. This knowledge was later used during WWII when Watson-Watt made advancements in the
technology that allowed Allied forces to use radar for air defence during the Battle of Britain and
beyond.
 During World War II, the people operating the radar machines discovered that weather could hinder the
readouts and cause echoes on the machines. As radar evolved the technology developed to allow
scientists to study the data then detect and decipher the weather. This allowed for a prediction of
weather including rain, snow, hail and more.
 Modern weather radar is a lot more accurate and helps in the prediction of weather for the days and
weeks ahead.

17. COMPUTERS
 The original technology for computers was a lot more archaic than it is today. The original computers
used punch cards and mechanical looms to solve problems. The technology improved at greater speed
during World War II though, when an electronic digital programmable computer named Colossus was
invented to help decipher messages sent by the Nazi encryption machines.
 These computers were a small part of helping the Allies win the war and kick-started the age of the
modern digital computer. In the decades that followed, technology has vastly improved and shrunk
greatly, with computers even fitting in our pocket.

18. SPACE PROGRAMME
 During WWII, Nazi inventors worked on creating various long-range rockets for delivering explosive
payloads to enemy targets. These were the first steps towards putting a man-made object into space.
After the war, the US took those German scientists involved in the V2 rocket programme back to the
states to help them win the space race and to be the first nation to reach the moon.
 Space travel has since become a passion for many, including Elon Musk and more. Travel into Earth's
orbit has also been used for commercial purposes with satellite navigation systems, satellite television
and satellite radio all coming about thanks to the first developments.

19. FUTURE REQUIREMENTS
 To get the maximum leverage from the national effort, the government agencies that are the major users
of supercomputing should be jointly responsible for the strength and continued evolution of the
supercomputing infrastructure in the United States, from basic research to suppliers and deployed
platforms. The Congress should provide adequate and sustained funding.
 The government agencies that are the primary users of supercomputing should ensure domestic
leadership in those technologies that are essential to meet national needs.
 To satisfy its need for unique supercomputing technologies such as high-bandwidth systems, the
government needs to ensure the viability of multiple domestic suppliers.
 The creation and long-term maintenance of the software that is key to supercomputing requires the
support of those agencies that are responsible for supercomputing R&D. That software includes
operating systems, libraries, compilers, software development and data analysis tools, application codes,
and databases.