FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center, New Jersey

A research and development facility run by the FAA, supporting commercial aviation technologies and security. At any one time, about 150 projects are underway. The installation, on the edge of the airport at Atlantic City, has laboratories, test facilities, support facilities, an airplane hanger, an airport pavement test machine, and a heliport research facility. It is also home of the Department of Homeland Security Transportation Security Lab.