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In d e x 153<br />
<strong>Army</strong> arsenal system functions, 11, 12–13<br />
civilian scientific establishment and military services, 2<br />
Navy shipyard network, 37<br />
outsourcing of weapons production to industry, 12–13, 12n5<br />
private-sector weapons development, 2<br />
wartime expenditures for arsenals, 13n6<br />
wartime weapons developed, 21<br />
See also Postwar period.<br />
Wright Air Development <strong>Center</strong> (WADC)<br />
B–58 bomber development and, 83–84<br />
directorates managed by, 84n50<br />
metallurgy research, 84n51<br />
renamed Wright Air Development Division, 95<br />
weapon-system concept and, 82–83, 100<br />
wind-tunnel and structures branches, 84–85, 85n53<br />
Wright-Patterson Air Force B<strong>as</strong>e renamed <strong>as</strong>, 81<br />
Wright Air Development Division (WADD)<br />
Aeronautical Research Laboratory, 101<br />
avionics research, 100, 101<br />
electronics R&D, 101n94<br />
metallurgy research, 101<br />
R&D diversification, 99<br />
renamed Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories, 102<br />
restructuring, 100<br />
staffing issues, 100<br />
Wright Air Development <strong>Center</strong> renamed <strong>as</strong>, 95<br />
Wright Field, Ohio<br />
Engineering Division, 74–75<br />
jet-engine research and, 71<br />
major Air Force R&D efforts, 9<br />
Materiel Division, 73, 73n13, 74<br />
pre–World War II R&D, 67–68<br />
research breakthroughs, 74<br />
transfer of Air Materiel Command functions to, 67–68<br />
Wright-Patterson Air Force B<strong>as</strong>e, Ohio, 74n18, 81, 81n37, 93, 102, 104n106<br />
X–15 program, 96<br />
X-rays<br />
betatron research, 29, 30, 31<br />
description, 29<br />
R&D efforts, 29–31<br />
sources, 29<br />
See also High-energy X-rays.<br />
Zuni rocket, 50