According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, almost 150,000 engineers and scientists work within the military, including the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy. This number includes military and civilian scientists, although civilians carry out most of the military’s advanced scientific research, typically at one of several locations that form the Army Research Lab (ARL) or Naval Research Lab (NRL).
The ARL has six technical directorates: computational and information sciences, human research and engineering, sensors and electronic devices, survivability/lethality analysis, vehicle technology, and weapons and materials research.
The NRL specializes in plasma physics, space physics, materials science, and tactical electronic warfare. Both labs work on basic and applied science and engineering, and their research is usually less secretive and more applicable to everyday life than most people think...
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