I'm just saying that while nations would probably have a decrease in technology, due to the bombings and war and everything, the APIRCA, which is waterborn, mobile, and funded by the UN, would have a BOOST. In times of war, funding would increase for better tech, and more people would be moved over. Resources would be assigned, and generally, the war would have APIRCA flourish. So in the aftermath of the war, when APIRCA's masters have disintegrated and fallen, they will have free reign, no longer held up by anyone else. The North American Federation [I think it's called] would know of it, but wouldn't inherit the contracts that bind the former US to the APIRCA, nor would they be the same government, so the restriction policies and everything put into place could be called invalid, and so the APIRCA would legally and officially become independent, not just in name.

And so there could be a whole host of new things they could have designed in the time between their creation, and then end of the war.