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Naval Ship Research and Development Center, 64n84, 65, 65n85
Naval Surface Weapons Center, 52
Naval Tactical Data System, 60
Naval Undersea Research and Development Center, 65, 65n85
Naval Weapons Center, 50, 65
Navy
Bureau of Aeronautics, 41–42, 53–57, 81, 81n36
Bureau of Construction and Repair, 40
Bureau of Ordnance, 39–40, 42–53
Bureau of Ships, 40–41, 57–64
Bureau of Steam Engineering, 40
Cold War R&D, 7
GUPPY program, 64
independent bureaus, 38–39, 38n5
Lead Bureau Concept, 54, 65
postwar R&D programs, 37–39
postwar shift of ship construction to private shipyards, 37
private sector nuclear-power research, 61n77
R&D, 8–9, 37–42, 109, 110
reorganization of bureaus and laboratories, 64–66
Special Projects Office, 54, 65, 112
staffing issues for laboratories, 47–48, 48n36
system command structure, 64–65
technical bureau functions, 8–9, 110–11, 112
See also specific divisions, laboratories, and offices.
Navy Electronics Laboratory Center, 65
Navy Radio and Sound Laboratory, 58–59
Navy Yard, Washington, D.C., 43, 43n15
Nike-Hercules missile, 31, 31n54
Nike Zeus missile, 96
North American Aviation, 13n9, 89
Northrop, 13n9, 89n63
Northwestern University, 28n46
Nuclear power
Navy research, 41, 61n77, 62–64
postwar research developments and focus, 21–23
uranium-fission research, 62
X-rays and, 29
Nuclear weapons, 1, 21–22, 51, 68, 71–72, 87–88, 87n61, 98, 99, 106
OAR. See Office of Aerospace Research; Office of Air Research.
Office of Aerospace Research (OAR), 70, 78n29, 101
Office of Air Research (OAR), 69
Office of the Assistant for Operational Readiness, 82
Office of the Chief of Research and Development, 18–19