Lockheed is headquartered in Bethesda, Montgomery County, Maryland.

This is a short distance, because Maryland is located in the north of Washington, D.C., and Bethesda is close to Washington, D.C. itself. The distance between the centers of the two cities is even eight miles long. In the early morning, the journey from the hotel to the city and then to the Lockheed headquarters building, it is even fifteen minutes long.

The company has a huge square building and a wide parking lot in front of the door. When Alice was invited into the building by Oren, engineers could be seen everywhere. But when they saw Oren, they greeted him very enthusiastically and looked at Alice in a little surprised.

"Hey, Mr. Lockheed."

The Indian man at the front desk saw Oren and greeted enthusiastically: "You arrived earlier today."

Oren nodded and said, "Call the guys in charge of the yf-22 project and go to the B-2 conference room for a meeting in half an hour."

The front desk clerk first glanced at Alice who was silent, then nodded quickly and said, "Okay, Mr. Lockheed."

Seeing the employee bowing his head and calling, Alice couldn't help but interrupt: "I said Oren, b-2 conference room?"

"Northrop Grumman."

Oren laughed and said, "Yes, Alice, the bid for the B-2 bomber was taken away by this damn company, so now we have to fight for the development of the yf-22. If they succeeded in two consecutive aircraft projects, my father would have to get angry and cerebral hemorrhage."

"Okay, I'll work hard..."

With a happy smile, when Oren led her into an elevator, Alice said, "Actually, I have only been to Washington once or twice. In general, it is really worthy of being the political center of the country. Oren, is the building we just passed by belonging to NSA?"

Of course Oren knew which building Alice was referring to, nodded and said, "The area of ​​Washington is so large, of course you can't expect to put all the agencies there. The CIA is in Langley, the National Security Agency is in Fort Mead, and the FBI is in Quantico, Virginia, which is basically set up around Washington."

Alice tsk twice, but said nothing more.

After walking out of the elevator, the two continued to move forward. From time to time, passing employees would say hello to Oren and more or less look at Alice. Of course, Alice was also looking at the surrounding environment, and of course it all fell into Oren's eyes.

"This is also your first time to come to our company. How do you feel?"

"Very manly."

After thinking about it, when Oren opened the door of the conference room for her, Alice said: "Perhaps because they are all male engineers? The decoration style inside the building is so monotonous. There are cool colors mainly blue and black everywhere, but there is not even a slightly fashionable interior. So, haven't you hired any outstanding designers to make arrangements for you?"

To be honest, Oren wanted to make Alice comment on the company atmosphere, but this girl found a lot of problems in decoration.

"This...a old building that has been around for decades..."

"It's been decades, but I haven't thought about the decoration problem at all?"

As he said this, Alice strolled in the empty conference room, looking at the snow-white cement wall around it that was extremely simple: "We are not the government and the public. Is there no need to rely on hard work and simplicity to satisfy the public's psychology? Look at this wall, look at this windowsill, there is not even a pot of flowers. Are you not bored when you work?"

As she said that, she looked at Oren with a sneer, who was indeed defeated.

To be honest, how could an arms company that develops military aircraft, missiles and satellite communications focus on exquisite interior decoration?

Fortunately, Alice has no plans to be embarrassed by Oren anymore. Otherwise, if she puts forward the working conditions of those companies in Silicon Valley in the future, someone will have to be depressed.

Then, it's time to have a meeting.

With the phone call from the front desk staff, an employee rushed to the B-2 conference room without stopping. Their average age was thirty years old, and forty years old also accounted for a large proportion. Many people were wearing uniform clothing with the Lockheed logo, which easily reminded people of the ibm in blue work clothes for all employees. When the number of people was basically all, Alice also noticed that among the designers of the thirty, there were only a few women.

Of course, just before all the staff arrived, all the employees who sat down looked at Alice curiously, but seeing that Oren, who was sitting in the first place, had no intention of introducing them, they all shyly suppressed the questions in their hearts and simply said hello to Oren.

However, after all, someone broke the silence.

"Are you Alice-Wang?"

One of the only two female employees, when the last employee was about to sit down, she looked at Alice casually, but was immediately stunned: "That Alice-Wang?"

Alice burst out laughing, glanced at her badge, shook hands and said, "Hello, Susan, if the Alice King you are referring to is indeed the Alice King you think of, then yes, I am the Alice King you think of and the Alice King you point to."

The girl's playful answer immediately broke the previous silence, and many male engineers who seemed to have been holding it in for a long time laughed.

"Ahem."

Seeing that everyone was here, Oren interrupted Susan's next words: "Dear Susan, please close the door, okay?"

Susan looked back and saw that the last time she entered the room, she forgot to close the door: "Oh, sorry, Mr. Lockheed."

When Susan returned to her seat again, Oren nodded and said, "Then, I believe many of you here recognize it. The person sitting next to me is the founder of Cisco Systems in San Jose, a shareholder of Microsoft, a 15-year-old billionaire, a genius programmer, Alice Wang."

With a silent chuckling expression, every engineer in the audience applauded, and Alice also stood up at the right time and bowed slightly to everyone.

It is worth mentioning that it was a meeting of more than 30 people after all, so the area of ​​this B-2 conference room is quite large, and the patchwork conference table is even more amazing. Alice sat tightly at Oren's right hand first, and even if she stood up and looked at the last person, she would have to take some attention.

"Alice is a very talented programmer, and I'm no exaggeration to say that she might be able to fight everyone in our room."

Like provocation and simple exaggerated rhetoric, Oren smiled and said, "So, I believe everyone knows the theme of this conference when they see the identities of colleagues around them. That's right, Alice will participate in the design and development of the yf-22 fighter as a technical consultant."

Although everyone could basically guess the reason, when Oren announced in person, everyone still showed a surprised expression.

"Oren, you mean the technical consultant?"

The name "Joseph" was clearly written on the badge. A middle-aged engineer with a slightly bald face questioned: "Aren't you working directly in the company?"

"Yes, Joseph, Alice is not an employee of our company."

Oren nodded and said, "I don't know how many of you have followed Silicon Valley news. Microsoft's Windows 10 system was developed by Alice alone in one week. Related reports..."

Oren paused for a moment, because the screams in the house forced him to stop talking: "...it can be read directly. The press conference after Microsoft went public in March last year, and it was a impression of the disclosure of ibm, right?"

"That's when."

The time, place and event were designated so clearly that everyone here naturally contacted me. In a corner of the table, a man wearing square glasses said: "Ms. Wang's programming ability has indeed been tested by practice. I have a friend who works in the financial industry. The investment company he belongs to bought Cisco's router. Ms. Wang, is the patent of this product also yours?"

"Just call me Alice, Mr. O'Hara."

Seeing the other party's badge clearly from seven meters away, and seeing O'Hara's surprise flashing away, Alice smiled and said, "Please rest assured in terms of work ability. As you said, nothing can compare to practical tests. At present, the most laborious job of the yf-22 project is to program avionics systems. How specific is my level? You can prove everything by giving a computer, right?"

All of the people here are technical personnel, and everyone can be said to be the top industry expert in a company like Lockheed to participate in the research and development of a project like yf-22. When Alice comes up, she has to speak with her real skills. Everyone suddenly feels like a soulmate, but at the same time, many people look dissatisfied.

Of course, Alice has taken every expression of everyone to take into consideration.

Fortunately, after all, I am already quite famous, and being serious is not ordinary. Those people are just a little dissatisfied, not a mocking expression.

In fact, Alice feels quite lucky to this day.

Because whether it is Microsoft, Cisco and Lockheed at this time are typical technology-oriented companies, and they have always been prone to emerge in many geniuses. People like programming experts have never been able to judge their level by their age, which is far from ordinary companies.

If I were in a company like Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson, and had a job like a account manager, I would have been laughed out loud.

Oh, of course, in terms of DreamWorks, in the entertainment industry, youth is actually the biggest capital.

Seeing the atmosphere at the scene relaxed and everyone wanted to accept Alice, Oren breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Okay, then Joseph, you can briefly give Alice a briefing first, first... let her introduce our plane in detail."
Chapter completed!