Hughes Research Laboratories
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In the 1940's, Howard Hughes created a R&D facility in Culver City, California; by the early 1960's, it had been moved to Malibu, California. Through a series of business transactions, it was brought under the ownership of Boeing, Raytheon, and General Motors, its LLC partners, and renamed "HRL Laboratories." (For more detail, please see Hughes Aircraft.) It receives funding from its LLC partners, US defense contracts, and other commercial customers.
HRL focuses on advanced developments in electronics, information & systems sciences, materials, sensors, and photonics; their workspace spans from basic research to product delivery. It has particularly emphasized capabilities in high performance integrated circuits, high power lasers, antennas, networking, and smart materials.
The first laser was made at Hughes Research Laboratories, by Theodore Maiman in 1960.
