With the formation of the Tamahagane Corporation, the corporation chose to put the Research and Development teams from the various holding companies into one division. The first step in this was the collection of all intellectual property from them and cataloging it.
The purpose of a single R&D was to allow the corporation to ensure that work being performed by one holding did not conflict with another, and allow collaboration between different parts of the corporation on a product.
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