Wright Laboratory was a research and development organization operated by the
United States Air Force
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the Aerial warfare, air military branch, service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part ...
Materiel Command on
Wright-Patterson AFB starting in 1990. The Laboratory was eventually merged into the
Air Force Research Laboratory
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is a scientific research organization operated by the United States Air Force Materiel Command dedicated to leading the discovery, development, and integration of aerospace warfighting technologies, pl ...
in 1997.
The Laboratory was named after the
Wright brothers, American pioneers of aviation and the namesake of Wright-Patterson AFB.
References
Research installations of the United States Air Force
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