Chapter 96: Chirpy Little Boy

  Sanders had his materials ready and then got into the little cart.

  There were already three people in the car. However, these people in the car were not members of the company, nor were they bodyguards under the protection umbrella.

  They are CIA.

  Sanders also plans to visit the Pentagon to brief on a report about "Multipurpose Personal Computer for Single Soldier Use".

  Of course, it also has a simple name - Beibi Xiaozi 1000.

  And this name was taken by Catherine.

  In fact, most of the content in this report that Sanders has in his hand was also completed by Catherine, and what Sanders needs to do is to convince the Pentagon.

  The Pentagon's money is actually easy to cheat. For example, in the future Lockheed Martin's RQ-170 unmanned aerial vehicle. During Catherine's crossing, the research and development cost was 60 billion US dollars, and it is still growing.

  $60 billion in the 21st century, what a concept? Enough to complete two Manhattan Projects from scratch!

  As a proud supplier of the Pentagon, if you say that you have never cheated or embezzled money from the Pentagon, you would be too ashamed to participate in the Pentagon's bidding.

  Isn't it just like that?

  A munitions merchant who cheats his own country is not a good munitions merchant.

  This is also a true reflection of being a supplier for the Pentagon.

  Sanders did not intend to and dared not to dig a hole in the Pentagon.

  All Sanders wants to do now is try to squeeze a little more out of the Pentagon's budget for each company - that would be plenty.

  Before entering the Pentagon, Sanders was first brought in front of a metal detector and then given a full-body scan. After it was determined that Sanders could not possibly be carrying any "weapons of mass destruction", he was let in.

  Sanders was led to the door of the conference room, his equipment and materials were also ready, and the CIA had already helped him prepare a slide projector.

  This is his second time coming over, but he still feels a bit nervous.

  He took a deep breath and then pushed open the door and walked in.

  "Gentlemen, good afternoon, I'm delighted to meet you all again."

  Then Sanders began to get down to business.

  He turned on the slide projector and a picture appeared on the white wall.

  This picture is of an American soldier, but compared with soldiers nowadays, this strange thing is wearing a lot of things.

  "This is our company... more accurately, this should be the concept of future soldier combat design built through cooperation between Intel and Umbrella."

  Sanders began introducing.

  "In our concept, the future soldier will have a three-color camouflage uniform, helmet, goggles, tactical vest, bulletproof vest and so on, with a total weight of equipment ranging from 40 to 70 pounds."

  "But what does this have to do with your company's products? What we want to know is how personal computers might affect war."

  Sanders nodded.

  The Pentagon has actually been studying this for a long time, otherwise it wouldn't be so interested in Bilibili.

  Apple's efforts in miniaturizing computers have clearly put them ahead of other manufacturers, which is why they are valued by the Pentagon. With the appearance of Bibi Xiaozi, this future conceptual equipment, they are even more interested.

  Catherine knew this was a trend.

  After all, even in the future, American soldiers will have IPAD as regular equipment - although only in some troops, but similar to Bixby's technology, it is indeed a kind of foresight for the future. The Pentagon noticed this, and there is nothing wrong with that.

  "Yes. The soldiers of the future will definitely be completely different in today's modern world where technology is advancing day by day. They will have more powerful capabilities—"

  Then Sanders replaced the image with one that showed an American soldier lurking in the jungle.

  "Soldiers need to adapt to various combat situations. And our drones can help them better adapt to their surroundings."

  "According to our conceptual design, Bibi Xiaozi will have a new type of portable radar that can scan and record the surrounding data to form a perfect topographic map. This way, even in places where some planes are not convenient to enter, we can still get enough intelligence. Moreover, its personal radar has a very good effect on determining targets. It can conduct remote communication, change combat objectives and tasks on the battlefield at any time, and soldiers can communicate face-to-face as if they were in front of each other. Even at night, Bibi Xiaozi's personal identification device can easily distinguish between friend and foe. At the same time, Bibi Xiaozi also has a physical condition monitoring device, which will monitor the physical condition of soldiers at all times and keep them in optimal state."

  They nodded their heads, Sanders' pie-in-the-sky sounded pretty good.

  "What about energy issues? What if there's suddenly no electricity?"

  Someone else asked.

  "This is also a problem we need to solve. Although our company does not have research in this area, we believe that high-performance lithium batteries will be the trend of the future. Lithium batteries do not have battery effect, can be used for a long time, and more importantly - they are very light. A piece of lithium battery as small as our palm can support the entire machine to use for several days, if you wear a battery pack, in the process of continuous marching, you can use it continuously for a month without turning off the machine. Bibi Xiaozi's battery pack can be placed in a tactical backpack, convenient to carry."

  "But in the movie, Bumblebee doesn't have to worry about running out of battery."

  An official who had seen "The Wasteland" made a seemingly humorous remark.

  "That's right, because in the future of film, what we envision is miniaturized nuclear power devices, small-sized nuclear batteries - this is also a trend for the future."

  Then Sanders began introducing himself again.

  "Bibi Xiaozi is also an identity recognition device, it can record the situation and location of soldiers on the battlefield, so it's very convenient to judge whether the soldiers are fighting or hiding cowardly behind the team. The machine won't lie. Moreover, Bibi Xiaozi will adopt encrypted settings, and the password can be changed at any time, so even if it falls into the hands of the enemy, it's just a brick, completely useless... Oh, and it can also be used to hit people."

  Sanders made a final joke, but the person opposite him couldn't help but laugh too.

  "At present, our company Intel is working on a new type of CPU. The central processing unit is the core of the entire robot. As for radar and body detection devices, although our company has this concept, we are not an enterprise that focuses on researching in this direction. However, in our own field, I believe that the plan for the robot will be successful within 10 to 20 years... If there is sufficient funding and research personnel, the time will be shortened."

  What Sanders said can indeed be achieved, but 10 years... this is really pie in the sky.

  But listening to the discussion on the other side, Sanders was relieved.

  Although they still didn't make a judgment on Xiao Biao, it seemed that they had indeed been moved.

  In his previous report, Sanders had already elaborated on Intel's semiconductor and personal computer applications in the military.

  Radar convenience, information immediacy, precise missile guidance, electronic warfare advantages and so on.

  This time, Sanders told them about Bixie, a matter they really care about.

  However, there is one most important issue that they still haven't discussed, and that is - funding. After all, it's not possible to equip every single soldier with a Bumblebee. That would cost money.

  Many projects were shot down for this reason and Sanders was left with nothing but regret.

  ……

  Both big and small have been mentioned by people, all I can say is that you have already surpassed the boundary of cruelty...