Combattants MMA — Combat Lab

World War II radar research organization at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Radiation Laboratory was a radar research program operating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) during World War II. From 1940 to 1945, the Rad Lab applied new microwave technologies to develop compact radar sets for military navigation and combat. It grew from thirty staff to nearly 4,000 at its peak, with scientific staffing comparable to the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos facility. As the first and largest contractor of the United States' Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), the lab became a prototype for federally funded university research.