 Formed in 1946, this contract engineering company worked on a number of seemingly unrelated projects in the early 1950s.Among these was the ERA Atlas, an early military stored program computer, the basis of the Univac 1101, which was followed by the 1102, and then the 36-bit ERA 1103 (UNIVAC 1103).The Atlas was built for the Navy, which intended to use it in their non-secret code-breaking centers.