In 1975, as the idea of designing stealth aircraft was being discussed in DARPA, Lee Huff, a former DARPA employee, sat down with William Godel, the agency’s onetime deputy director. Huff had been hired to write a history of the agency and interviewed his onetime mentor and boss, who, after serving time in prison, made a career in private business. Reflecting on his time at DARPA, Godel said that program managers were a “dime a dozen,” but true innovators were rare. Asked what DARPA should be working on at the present time, Godel suggested an “unmanned non-detectable bomber.”
