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Annotated List of 36 Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs): Fiscal Year 2001

This list provides geographic location, activity categories, and descriptions of 36 Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The descriptions are one-to-three paragraphs long, and links to Websites of each FFRDC and its sponsoring agencies (Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services, Nuclear Regulatory Commission,...

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LIGO - Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), a collaboration between Caltech and MIT, is a facility dedicated to the detection and measurement of gravitational waves. Two installations, one on the east coast and one on the west, operate as a single simultaneous unit to trace the effects of "ripples in the fabric of space and time produced by violent events in the distant...

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu
MIT: Microsystems Technology Laboratories

This interdepartmental lab, working under the umbrella of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's School of Engineering, supports research on "solid state devices, integrated circuits and systems, materials for electronic applications, novel process technologies, MicroElectroMechanical devices (sensors and actuators), biomedical applications, and computer-aided fabrication." The Microsystems...

https://www.mtl.mit.edu
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, one of nine US Department of Energy multi-program national laboratories, conducts research concerning environmental science and technology. This huge site holds information on research in atmospheric science and climate change, analytic and physical chemistry, computational science and engineering, environmental remediation, statistics, thermal and energy...

https://www.pnnl.gov/