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Directorates & Divisions Nanoscience Institute NRL Review Future Naval Capabilities NRL Research Library Facilities Program Sponsors		Facilities – NRL could not accomplish its mission without a wide collection of state-of-the-art facilities. Published only electronically, the NRL Facilities book showcases its scientific resources through this pdf document of major work areas. Executive Directorate Code 1600 – Patuxent River Flight Support Detachment • Flight Support Detachment Business Directorate Code 3000 – Business Operations Directorate • Chesapeake Bay Detachment Systems Directorate Code 5200 – Technical Information Division • Video Teleconferencing • NRL Auditoriums • Ruth H. Hooker Research Library Code 5300 – Radar Division • Millimeter Wave Radar Facility • Radar Imaging Facility • Radar Signature Calculation Facility • Airborne Early Warning Radar Facility • Compact Range Facility • Airborne Surveillance Command and Control Research Platform • Radar Test Facility • Microwave Microscope • Advanced Technology Chamber Code 5500 – Information Technology Division • Robot Laboratory • Fleet Information Systems Security Technology Lab • Navy Shipboard Communications System Testbed • Virtual Reality Laboratory • Ship Motion Simulator Facility • Distributed Collaborative Engineering Environment Laboratory • NEWAVE Research Center • Motion Imagery Laboratory • Distributed Center for High Performance Computing • Scientific Visualization Laboratory Code 5600 – Optical Sciences Division • Fiber Fabrication Facility for Non-Oxide and Specialty Glasses • Nanochannel Glass Technology Facility • Infrared Range Facility • IRCM Techniques Laboratory • Missile Warning System Facility • Focal Plane Array Evaluation Facility • Fiber Optic Optical-Microwave Laboratory • Fiber-Optic Sensor Facility • Oxide Optical Fiber Fabrication Facility Code 5700 – Tactical Electronic Warfare Division • Visualization Laboratory • Off-Board Test Platform • Transportable Radar Cross Section Measurement Radar • Vehicle Development Laboratory • Advanced Tactical Electronic Warfare Environment Simulator • Mobile ESM Laboratory • Compact Antenna Range Facility • Isolation Measurement Chamber Facility • Millimeter Wave Anechoic Chamber Facility • Low-Power Anechoic Chamber • Search Radar ECM/EA Simulator • Electro-Optics Mobile Laboratory • Infrared/Electro-Optical Calibration and Characterization Laboratory • Infrared Missile Simulator and Development Laboratory • Scale Model Analysis Facility • Secure Supercomputing Facility • Central Target Simulator Facility • Flying Electronic Warfare Laboratory Materials Science and Component Technology Division Code 6030 – Laboratory for the Structure of Matter • Automatic X-ray Diffractometers • Atomic Force Microscope Code 6100 – Chemistry Division • Chemical Analysis Facility • Corrosion Engineering and Coatings Characterization Facilities • Marine Corrosion Facility • Nanometer Characterization/Fabrication Facility • Synchrotron Radiation Facility • Ex-USS Shadwell Advanced Fire Research Ship • Fire Research Enclosure • Fire Research Test Bed • Large-Scale Damage Control Facility Code 6300 – Materials Science and Technology Division • Computer-Controlled Universal Material Test System • Materials Processing Facility • Mechanical and Thermal Experimental Facilities • High-Power Microwave Facility • Ion Implantation Facility • 3-MV Tandem Van de Graff Accelerator Code 6400 – Laboratory for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics • Parallel High Performance Computer Graphics Facility Code 6700 – Plasma Physics Division • Nike KrF Laser Facility • Electra Laser Facility • Large Area Plasma Processing Systems • Space Physics Simulation Chamber • Gamble II • Hawk • Long Pulse Accelerator Laboratory • High-Frequency Microwave Processing of Materials Laboratory • Pharos Laser System • T-Cubed Laser System Code 6800 – Electronics Science and Technology Division • Nanoelectronics Processing Facility • Ultrafast Laser Facility • Space Solar Cell Characterization Laboratory • Vacuum Electronics Fabrication Facility • Compound Semiconductor Processing Facility • The MOCVD Laboratory • Epicenter for Advanced Materials Growth and Characterization Code 6900 – Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering • Advanced Microscopy Facility • Liquid Crystal Fabrication Facility Ocean and Atmospheric Science and Technology Directorate Code 7100 – Acoustics Division • Acoustic Communications Measurement System • Instrumentation Suite for Making Measurements of Acoustic Propagation in Complex Shallow Water • Structural Acoustics In-Air Facility • Laboratory for Structural Acoustics • Shallow Water Acoustic Laboratory • Multichannel Acoustic Data Processing Laboratory • Autonomous Acoustic Receiver System • Salt Water Tank Facility • Tactical Oceanography Simulation Laboratory and Wide Area Network • Shallow-Water High-Frequency Measurement Systems Code 7200 – Remote Sensing Division • Optical Spectral Measurements Facility • Naval Prototype Optical Interferometer (NPOI) • Free Surface Hydrodynamics Laboratory Code 7300 – Oceanography Division • Environmental Microscopy Facility • Ocean Dynamics and Prediction Network • Visualization Laboratory • Littoral Current Measurement Facility • Scanning Slope Sensing and Wave Gauge Array Buoy • Salinity Temperature and Roughness Remote Scanner • Ocean Color Facility • Ocean Optics Instrumentation Systems Code 7400 – Marine Geosciences Division • Electron Microscopy Center • Sediment Physical and Geoacoustic Properties and Sediment Biogeochemistry Laboratories • Moving-Map Composer Facility Code 7500 – Marine Meteorology Division • Satellite Data Ingest and Processing System • Meteorological Computing and Archival Facility • John B. Hovermale Modeling, Database, and Visualization Laboratory Code 7600 – Space Science Division • Cryogenic Sensor Test Facility • Vacuum Ultraviolet Calibration/Testing Facility • Solid-State Position-Sensitive Detector Evaluation Facility • Large Angle and Spectrometric COronagraph • Rocket Assembly and Checkout Facility • Solar Coronagraph Optical Test Chamber • Space Instrument Test Facility Naval Center for Space Technology Code 8100 – Space Systems Development Department • Precision Radio Frequency Anechoic Chamber Facility • Satellite Mission Analysis Facility • Radio Frequency Anechoic Chamber Facility • Midway Research Center • Precision Spacecraft Calibration Facility • Blossom Point Satellite Tracking and Command Station • Precision Clock Evaluation Facility Code 8200 – Spacecraft Engineering Department • Modal Survey Test Facility • Static Loads Test Facility • Spacecraft Vibration Test Facility • Payload Processing Facility • Thermal Vacuum Test Facility • Spacecraft Acoustic Reverberation Chamber Test Facility • Spacecraft Spin Test Facility • Reshape Facility • Spacecraft Thermal Analysis, Fabrication, and Test Facility • NCST Composite Materials Laboratory • Spacecraft Robotics Engineering and Controls Laboratory • Class 100 Clean Room Facility