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Saturday Evening Post
by Shalett, S.
Aug. 23, 1952
pages. 34-35, 58, 62, 64, and 66
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Abstruse forms of electronic and nucleonic research
The three research and development laboratories,
Squirer, Coles and Evans, are under an administrative organization known
as SCEL - Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories. Squier - the components,
battery, photographic and testing laboratory - is located at Monmouth proper;
Coles - the radio and wire center - five miles away; and Evans - where
the more abstruse forms of electronic and nucleonic research are carried
out - is at Belmar, twelve miles south of post headquarters. As General
Lawton points out, obvious inconveniences and inefficiencies arise from
this wide dispersal, so plans have been prepared for construction of a
consolidated new laboratory which would bring everything under one roof.
The new building, which would go the Pentagon in Washington one better
by being hexagonal in shape, eventually will cost about $22,000,000, if
Congress approves the entire project. A $6,000,000 appropriation
to get the work started already has been voted.
Because of the diversity of its activities, SCEL has been nicknamed
“the Army’s House of Magic.” With a $75,000,000 annual budget for
research and development, it farms out approximately 775 contracts to industrial
laboratories and universities, and handles 450 projects in its own laboratories.
Also, in the spirit of unification, it performs many functions for
the Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps, which help pay their share of the
bill.
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