List of United States college laboratories conducting basic defense research

Following World War II, the United States Department of Defense (and in some cases after 1977, the Department of Energy) funded basic scientific research at labs affiliated with a number of colleges and universities. Here is an incomplete list:

Lab	University	Location	Notable work	Refs and notes
AARL	Ohio State University	Columbus, OH	wind tunnels, jet engine test cell design
Ames Laboratory	Iowa State University	Ames, IA	separated and studied rare earth elements	^{[note 1]}
Applied Physics Laboratory	Johns Hopkins	Laurel, MD	development of guided missile technology and drones.
Applied Research Laboratory	Pennsylvania State University	State College, PA
Argonne Lab	University of Chicago	Lemont, IL	highly sensitive instruments and technologies to detect chemical, biological, and radioactive threats	^{[note 1]}
Cornell Aeronautical Lab	Cornell University	Buffalo, NY	wind tunnel, seat belt testing	^{[note 2]}
Draper Lab	MIT	Cambridge, MA	guidance systems for Project Apollo and the Polaris missile	^{[note 3]}
Fermilab	University of Chicago	Batavia, IL	discovery of the top quark
Georgia Tech Research Institute	Georgia Institute of Technology	Atlanta, GA	Radar, energy and electromagnetics work	^[1]^[2]
Idaho National Laboratory	MIT	Arco, ID	first nuclear-powered electric generator; designed and tested reactors for naval submarines	^{[note 1]}
Jet Propulsion Laboratory	California Institute of Technology	Pasadena, CA	Developed ballistic missiles in its early days an currently collaborates with several US military agencies
Lawrence Berkeley	University of California	Berkeley, CA	Manhattan Project, electromagnetic enrichment of uranium	^{[note 1]}
Lawrence Livermore	University of California	Livermore, CA	home to some of the world's most powerful computer systems
Lincoln Lab	MIT	Lexington, MA	Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE), TX-0 computer
Los Alamos	University of California	Los Alamos, NM	Manhattan Project
Oak Ridge	University of Tennessee	Oak Ridge, TN	Spallation Neutron Source and the High Flux Isotope Reactor.	^{[note 1]}
Radiation Laboratory	MIT	Cambridge, MA	LORAN
RRL	Harvard University	Cambridge, MA	electronic countermeasures to enemy radars and communications
Sandia	University of California^{[note 4]}	Albuquerque, NM	reliability and surety of nuclear weapon systems
SLAC	Stanford University	Menlo Park, CA	charm quark and tau lepton; the longest linear accelerator in the world; development of the klystron	^{[note 1]}
SEI	Carnegie Mellon University	Pittsburgh, PA	CMM or CMMI ;CERT/CC
Applied Research Laboratories	University of Texas at Austin	Austin, TX	acoustics, electromagnetics, and information sciences
Weber Research Institute	Polytechnic Institute of New York University	Brooklyn, New York	electromagnetic and microwave defense and communication systems
Information Systems and Internet Security Lab (ISIS)	Polytechnic Institute of New York University	Brooklyn, New York	computer and network security, digital forensics, hardware for secure systems, digital watermarking and steganography
Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology (WICAT)	Polytechnic Institute of New York University	Brooklyn, New York	increase network capacity and battery life of terminals, enhance network security, and structure applications to run efficiently over wireless networks.

Notes

1 2 3 4 5 6 Now funded by the Dept. of Energy
↑ Divested in 1972
↑ Divested in 1973
↑ Until 1949, now operated by a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation

References

↑ "Uncovering the science of atomic collisions". Historical Archive. Georgia Tech Research Institute. Retrieved 2013-08-18.
↑ "Compact radar range tests antenna performance". Historical Archive. Georgia Tech Research Institute. Retrieved 2013-08-18.

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