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The United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is the corporate research laboratory for the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps and conducts a broad program of scientific research and advanced development. NRL has existed since 1923, when it opened under the Office Of Naval Research at the instigation of Thomas Edison . "The Government should maintain a great research laboratory.... In this could be developed...all the technique of Military and Naval progression without any vast expense." in Washington, D.C. ]] NRL's accomplishments range from the development of Gamma-ray Radiography and Radar to the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment (LASCO) and Dragon Eye , a robotic airborne sensor system. The laboratory first proposed a Nuclear Submarine in 1939, and developed over-the-horizon radar in the late 1950s. The details of Grab I , deployed by NRL as the nation's first Intelligence Satellite , were recently declassified. The laboratory is responsible for the Identification, Friend Or Foe (IFF) system. In 1985, two scientists at the laboratory, Herbert A. Hauptman and Jerome Karle , won the Nobel Prize for work in molecular structure analysis. The projects developed by the laboratory often become mainstream applications without public awareness of the developer; an example in computer science is Onion Routing . The Timation system, developed at NRL, provided the basis for the Global Positioning System {Link without Title} . A few of the laboratory's many current specialties include Plasma Physics , Space Physics , Materials Science , and tactical Electronic Warfare . SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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