Space
NASA's Ames site is an aerospace research and development installation, located at the southwest end of the San Francisco Bay in Silicon Valley, amid a cluster of similar enterprises, including Onizuka Air Base and Lockheed's Missile and Space division. Facilities at Ames include several wind...
A nonprofit R&D lab, specializing in weapons for the Navy, operated by Johns Hopkins University. Similar in some respects to MIT's Draper Lab, this lab was formed by the Department of Defense in WWII, as a weapons research and development lab and think tank. Located on a 365-acre compound,...
The headquarters for the National Reconnaissance Office, the federal spy satellite organization, is located in this four-building complex on 68 acres, five miles south of Dulles International Airport. The $350 million complex was completed in 1994, and houses around 3,000 NRO employees. The NRO was...