NAVAL ORDNANCE PLANT, eT OT
This plant conducts some research and development in aircraft fire
control equipment.
Utilizing the facilities originally set up to manufac-
ture Norden bomb sights, it produces, overhauls and maintains aviation
fire control equipment, spare parts, tools and accessories,
This instcl-
lation is 2 center for fire control compenents which might be used in
development.
NAVAL ORONaNCE UNIT, Key West, Fla.
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Maintained primarily for the use of contractors involved in the
research and development of electronic and acoustic underwater weapons,
NAVAL POWDER FACTORY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
LABORATORY, IndianHead,Mi.
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Involved in the research and development of solid propellants,
including propellents for guns, catapults, reckets and jato units.
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NAVAL PROVING GROUND, Dahlgren, Va.
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Although essentially a proving ground and divorced by philosephies
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from all development and production considerations, this station by virtue
of its experience and facilities for handling and evaluating hesvy
ordnance expends 70 percent of its effort in applied research and develop-
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mental testing.
It 1s experienced in mechanical and electrical devices,
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interior, exterior and terminal ballistics, statistical studies, specirl
instrumentation, and large scale computations utilizing the digitel cal-
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culators.
BUREaU OF SHIPS
In addition to its material and technical responsibility for vessels,
boats, craft, etc., BuShips has the navy-wide responsibility for radiological
defense and for general usage electronic tubes.
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propulsion is well known.
BuShips interest in atomic
BuShips has technical and management control of eight
iaberatories and eleven shipyards.
Considerable work is dene by contract.
facilities which are mest applicable to
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