This term was first used as the codename for a high profile weapon designing arm of a company dealing in the same, to develop a weapon to counter the german prototype weapon of the same nature, during the 2nd world war. Give me the codename and the present context in which it is being used?

the word is skunk works, it is widely used in business, engineering, and technical fields to describe a group within an organization given a high degree of autonomy and unhampered by bureaucracy, tasked with working on advanced or secret projects.

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