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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

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