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 NRL’s Information Technology Division
(ITD) is a direct descendant of the Laboratory’s Radio Division,
one of NRL’s two original research Divisions when the Laboratory
was commissioned in 1923. In fact, ITD’s roots precede the founding
of NRL since the NRL Radio Division was formed by consolidating two already
existing Naval Laboratories: the Naval Radio Telegraphic Laboratory (established
in 1908) and the Naval Aircraft Radio Laboratory (established in 1918).
These two Laboratories were consolidated into the NRL Radio Division on
April 16, 1923, almost three months before NRL was officially commissioned
on July 2.
The Radio Division’s first
Superintendent was Albert Hoyt Taylor who, along with fellow Division
employee Leo C. Young, pioneered Radar in the US. The NRL Radio Division
trifurcated in 1945 into a Special Electronics Research Division (predecessor
of NRL’s Electronics Division), a Fire Control Division (predecessor
of NRL’s Radar Division), and a Ship-Shore Radio Division. The Ship-Shore
Radio Division reorganized into a new Radio Division in 1954, and in 1968
it reorganized and expanded into the Communications Sciences Division.
The Communications Sciences Division reorganized and expanded into the
Information Technology Division in 1981.
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