Argonne National Lab

Serving for more than 85 years, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is a corporate research laboratory serving the Navy and Marine Corps of the United States. NRL is a campus-like complex of diverse scientific facilities, with a staff of more than 2,500 researchers, engineers, technicians and support personnel. NRL has received various awards, including Nobel Prize, Bower Prize, Robert J. Collier Trophy, National Medals of Science and Technology, Roosevelts Gold Medal for Science and SES Awards. Some of the systems provided by NRL include global positioning systems, high frequency radio, moon relay, STU-III, radar, naval radar systems, monopulse radar, airborne radar, over-horizon radar and friend-or-foe system. It also offers rockets, such as V-2 Rockets, Aerobee, Rockoon, Nike Booster and NavSpaSur.

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is the president's principal adviser on telecommunications and information policy issues. Since its creation in 1978, the agency has been at the cutting edge of critical issues. In addition to representing the executive branch in both domestic and international telecommunications and information policy activities, National Telecommunications and Information Administration also manages the federal use of spectrum, performs cutting-edge telecommunications research and engineering, including resolving technical telecommunications issues for the federal government and private sector and administers infrastructure and public telecommunications facilities grants. The agency s mission is to promote market-based policies, which lower prices to consumers. National Telecommunications and Information Administration is located in Washington, D.C.