Search Results: Research and Development
An environmental research and development installation, operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, and specializing in industrial agriculture and remediation sciences, including clean-up at military installations. Until the 1970s, when the facility's name was changed...
A former defense site outside of St. Louis is now an environmental research facility, operated by Washington University. The site was developed as a weapons assembly, storage and training facility by the military during WWII. Structures included 52 munition storage...
The Dryden Flight Research Center is NASA's primary flight research and test facility. It is located on Edwards Air Force Base. In 1946, engineers and test pilots came from the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (later to become NASA) based in Langley, Virginia...
One of the nation's primary aviation and aeronautics research and development facilities. Langley's 30 wind tunnels cover the entire speed range from 0 mph to nearly Mach 25 or orbital velocity (17,500 mph). In addition, Langley houses facilities for structures,...
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...
Major aviation and aeronautics R&D complex, operated by NASA. 5,000 employees develop propulsion, power, and communications technologies for application to aeronautics and space. Started in 1941, as the Aircraft Engine Research Lab, the Glenn Center (formerly...
Main R&D and test facility for United Technologies, the parent company for Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, Otis elevators, Sikorsky helicopters, Hamilton Standard aerospace, and other commercial industrial equipment manufacturers. Located at an office/...
The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, also called New Mexico Tech, is a technical university and part of the state university system. Though enrollment is only around 1,600, NM Tech is significant as the parent organization for several major research and...
Los Alamos National Lab is one of the three principal diversified Department of Energy nuclear research and development labs, along with Lawrence Livermore, and Sandia National Labs. It employs around 12,000 people, occupies 43 square miles and consumes over two...
A research and development facility run by the FAA. At any one time, about 150 projects are underway. The installation covers 5059 acres consisting of laboratories, test facilities, support facilities, an airplane hanger and the Atlantic International Airport. The...
Operated by the Department of Energy, this multiple laboratory facility is engaged in research and development in renewable energy and related technologies. Some of the facilities include: Solar Energy Research Facility (SERF) houses 42 laboratories for research in...
Picatinny Arsenal includes 950 buildings on 6,500 acres. It is home of the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC). The Center performs life cycle engineering for Department of Defense guns, ammunition, fire control, and associated...
The Nevada Test Site (NTS) is a 1,350 square miles (860,000 acres) restricted area in southern Nevada, owned and operated by the Department of Energy. It is a multi-use, open-air laboratory that was the primary location of the nuclear weapons testing program for the...
A rambling complex in the hills behind the campus, Lawrence Berkeley Lab is a historic physics research facility adjacent to the Univerity of California, Berkeley, which operates the lab for the Department of Energy. Several unique facilities have been built at...
A major Air Force R...
The Naval Air Warfare Weapons Station at Point Mugu is a 4,490 acre, heavily developed site, on the coast of Southern California, near Ventura. It is a weapons research and development, test and evaluation center for the Navy, and has been developing missiles, drones...
The Helendale Radar Cross Section Facility is an aircraft research facility developed and operated by the Lockheed Martin Corporation. It is a secretive test range developed at an old WWII training field, used to measure the radar reflectivity of stealth aircraft...
Located on the high-technology region of the Route 128 beltway, northwest of Boston, Hanscom is said to be the fourth largest corporate entity in Massachusetts, and is one of the Air Force's primary research and development centers for surveillance and intelligence...
Lincoln Lab is a large electromagnetic communications R...
Millstone Hill became an important site in the development of electromagnetic communication in 1957, when a just completed dish built on the site became the first American antenna to track the world's first satellite - the short-lived Soviet Sputnik 1. Antennas at...