Arma Engineering Company

{{Short description|American military technology manufacturer}}

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| founder = Arthur Davis
David Mahood

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The Arma Engineering Company was an American military technology manufacturer founded in New York in 1918 by Arthur Davis and David Mahood.{{Cite web |title=The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962 |url=http://www.righto.com/2024/02/the-first-microcomputer-transfluxor.html |access-date=2024-03-04|first=Ken|last=Shirriff}}{{Cite web |last=Virgadamo |first=Frank |date=March 1958 |title=Spotlight on Industry... Arma Division |url=https://www.ieee.li/pulse/pulse_1958_03.pdf |website=The Pulse of Long Island |page=9}}

An early product was the U.S. naval Torpedo Data Computer, a special-purpose ship-mounted analog computer for targeting torpedoes, first deployed by the U.S. Navy in 1938.{{Cite web |last=Parmar |first=Sunil |date=2021-09-23 |title=RESTORATION OF THE TDC MARK III ABOARD USS PAMPANITO |url=https://archive.navalsubleague.org/1995/restoration-of-the-tdc-mark-m-aboard-pampanito |access-date=2024-03-05 |website=NSL Archive |language=en-US}}

Another Arma product was a gyrocompass based on technology originally developed by the German company Anschütz.{{Cite book |last=Mindell |first=David A. |title=Between human and machine: Feedback, control and computing before cybernetics |date=2002 |publisher=Johns Hopkins university press |isbn=978-0-8018-6895-5 |series=Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology |location=Baltimore |pages=54}} Arma was subsequently sued by Sperry for patent infringement. The dispute was eventually resolved by the U.S. Navy contracting with both companies, with Sperry as principal supplier.{{Cite web |last=Parmar |first=Sunil |date=2021-10-13 |title=A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ARMA GYROCOMPASS |url=https://archive.navalsubleague.org/1999/short-history-of-arma-gyrocompass-messrs-pekelney-lindell |access-date=2024-03-04 |website=NSL Archive |language=en-US}}

Arma merged with American Bosch in 1949 to become American Bosch Arma.{{Cite web |last=Leibson |first=Steven |date=2023-09-27 |title=Edward Keonjian: The High-IQ, Armenian-American Forrest Gump of Microelectronics, Part 3 |url=https://www.eejournal.com/article/edward-keonjian-the-high-iq-armenian-american-forrest-gump-of-microelectronics-part-3/ |access-date=2024-03-04 |website=EEJournal |language=en-US}}

It released an early minicomputer, the Arma Micro Computer, in 1962.