Admiralty Research Establishment
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The Admiralty Research Establishment (commonly known as ARE) was formed on 1 April 1984 from various Admiralty establishments. It became part of the Defence Research Agency
on 1 April 1991.
Defence Research Agency
The Defence Research Agency , was an executive agency of the UK Ministry of Defence from April 1991 until April 1995. At the time the DRA was Britain's largest science and technology organisation...
on 1 April 1991.
Constituent parts on formation
- Admiralty Surface Weapons Establishment (ASWE), Portsdown, PortsmouthPortsmouthPortsmouth is the second largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Portsmouth is notable for being the United Kingdom's only island city; it is located mainly on Portsea Island...
(1959-1984)- Admiralty Signal and Radar Establishment, Portsmouth (1948-1959).
- Admiralty Signal Establishment, (1941-1948).
- Admiralty Experimental Department, (1917-1941).
- Admiralty Signal Establishment, (1941-1948).
- Admiralty Gunnery Establishment, Teddington. (AGE) (1943-1959).
- Admiralty Research LaboratoryAdmiralty Research LaboratoryThe Admiralty Research Laboratory, or ARL, was a research laboratory that supported the work of the UK Admiralty in Teddington, London, England....
(ARL), Fire Control Group, Teddington.
- Admiralty Research Laboratory
- Admiralty Compass Observatory, SloughSloughSlough is a borough and unitary authority within the ceremonial county of Royal Berkshire, England. The town straddles the A4 Bath Road and the Great Western Main Line, west of central London...
, EnglandEnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
(1842-1971).
- Admiralty Signal and Radar Establishment, Portsmouth (1948-1959).
- Admiralty Marine Technology Establishment (1978-1984) - formed from amalgamation of other research departments in 1977
- Naval Construction Research Establishment.
- Admiralty Materials Laboratory (1947-1978).
- Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment (AUWE), PortlandIsle of PortlandThe Isle of Portland is a limestone tied island, long by wide, in the English Channel. Portland is south of the resort of Weymouth, forming the southernmost point of the county of Dorset, England. A tombolo over which runs the A354 road connects it to Chesil Beach and the mainland. Portland and...
, DorsetDorsetDorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...
(1960-1984).- Torpedo Experimental Establishment (TEE), at GreenockGreenockGreenock is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council area in United Kingdom, and a former burgh within the historic county of Renfrewshire, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland...
, ScotlandScotlandScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
. (1943-1959) - Underwater Countermeasures and Weapons Establishments (-1960).
- Underwater Detection Establishment (-1960).
- Torpedo Experimental Establishment (TEE), at Greenock