 IBM's decision to establish a presence on the West Coast took advantage of the growing base of electronics research and other high technology innovation in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, an area that came to be known many decades later as Silicon Valley.IBM was, at the request of the government, the subcontractor for the Japanese internment camps' punched card project.IBM equipment was used for cryptography by US Army and Navy organizations, Arlington Hall and OP-20-G and similar Allied organizations using "Hollerith" punched cards (Central Bureau and the Far East Combined Bureau).