# Radiation Laboratory **Entity class:** Laboratory **Research spine:** [[research/Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research|Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]] ## Definition MIT's Radiation Laboratory, called the Rad Lab, was the large Anglo-American microwave-radar laboratory opened in October 1940. ## Chronological Proximity It opened after the [[wiki/Tizard Mission|Tizard Mission]] and alongside the emergence of [[wiki/Big Science|Big Science]] as a government-funded institutional form. ## Relational Proximity The [[wiki/National Defense Research Committee|NDRC]] funded it; its radar work formed the detection-side counterpart to Harvard's [[wiki/Radio Research Laboratory|Radio Research Laboratory]] countermeasure work. ## Collection Routes [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]] · [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]] · [[wiki/Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software|Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[research/Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research|Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research]].