Establishment of corona laboratories announced by NBS

The establishment of a new National Bureau of Standards (NBS) laboratory center at Corona, Calif., to be devoted to various phases of electronic research, developmsnt, and engineering was announced recently. To be known as the Corona Laboratories, National Bureau of Standards, the new research center will be concerned primarily with technical problems of importance to the Department of Defense. The site was transferred to NBS by the Department of the Navy because of the Bureau´s urgent need for new facilities. About 22 buildings are being renovated to accommodate NBS research and development activities being transferred there from Washington. Dr. R. D. Huntoon, formerly Chief of the NBS Atomic and Radiation Physics Division, has been named associate director to head the new laboratories, which are expected to be in essentially full-scale operation by this month.