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The U.S. Navy Mine Unit, later the Mine Laboratory at the Washington, D.C., Navy Yard, was established in 1918, and the first Officer in Charge (OIC) arrived in February 1919, marking the beginning of the Laboratory. In 1929 the Mine Laboratory was merged with the Experimental Ammunition Station in Indian Head to form the Naval Ordnance Laboratory.
In January 2024, the US Navy requested a new permit for the installation and maintenance of mine training areas off the coasts of Hawaii and Southern California, as the Pacific Ocean, according to the command, is a priority theater of operations amid tensions with China. The current permit expires in 2025 and the Navy is required to submit an ...
Naval Ordnance Laboratory Annex, White Oak, Silver Spring, Maryland Naval Ordnance Laboratory Experimental Facilities, South River, Maryland Naval Ordnance Laboratory, Washington, D.C.
Currently, Camp Perry is home to the 213th Ordnance Company (Missile Support, Corps), the 372d Missile Maintenance Company (DS) Detachment 1, the 200th RED HORSE Civil Engineering Squadron (Ohio Air National Guard), U.S. Coast Guard Port Security Unit 309, the Ohio Naval Militia (the naval arm of Ohio's State Defense Forces), and the Ohio Military Reserve (the militia arm of Ohio's State ...
Naval Ammunition Depot, Crane; Naval Aviation Weapons Facility Machrihanish; Naval Mine Warfare Test Station; Naval Ordnance Laboratory; Naval Ordnance Laboratory Test Facility; Naval Ordnance Station Forest Park; Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant, Bethpage; Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant, Calverton; Naval Weapons Industrial ...
WWII poster from Atlas Powder Company, Ravenna Ordnance Plant. In 1940, the United States Department of the Army reserved 21,418 acres (87 km 2) for the construction of two facilities: [3] The Ravenna Ordnance Plant, near Ravenna; and the Portage Ordnance Depot, near Windham. The facilities officially opened on March 23, 1942, although the ...
Naval Air Warfare Center, Indianapolis (NAWC) is a former United States Navy facility in Warren Township, Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. The plant opened in 1942, covering 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m 2 ) and employing some 3,000 in avionics research and development.
Because of the laboratory's broad-based growth in research and development and with its new missions, Dahlgren's name officially changed to the Naval Weapons Laboratory in 1959. It was later changed to the Naval Surface Weapons Center in 1974 with the merger of the former Naval Ordnance Laboratory at White Oak, Maryland.