. Dahlgren. Dahlgren Laboratory. ^ ,,3BSiil p|!!^ ..r^ifWii Jiili!i!ip!lS ^!iiS. Present computational facility at the Dahlgren Laboratory. good, and we needed new floors—all kinds of things. So when the Public Works Officer added up the costs of all the requests he had for renovation, it came to about a half million or maybe $800,000. He said, "You know, it would be better if we built a new building than it would be to keep renovating those old ; So that kind of sparked things, and Captain Simons, being some- what of a salesman, said, "With these space programs buildi
. Dahlgren. Dahlgren Laboratory. ^ ,,3BSiil p|!!^ ..r^ifWii Jiili!i!ip!lS ^!iiS. Present computational facility at the Dahlgren Laboratory. good, and we needed new floors—all kinds of things. So when the Public Works Officer added up the costs of all the requests he had for renovation, it came to about a half million or maybe $800,000. He said, "You know, it would be better if we built a new building than it would be to keep renovating those old ; So that kind of sparked things, and Captain Simons, being some- what of a salesman, said, "With these space programs building up now, we ought to go out and try to get a new ; We had the POLARIS Program at that time, and we had the Space Surveillance Program. We were doing some work on the Transit Navigation Satellite System, which APL* developed. Those three things were right in the forefront at that time. They were modern programs that were expanding with a lot of glamour attached to them. We used that as backing, and we went in with the request that we needed a building like this one for housing the computers and people. It would be more efficient. We kept pushing it, and we finally sold it. Once the building was constructed, then the issue about closing Dahlgren sort of went away because when people would come down, they'd see a new building. They'd figure things were going good, and maybe Dahlgren shouldn't be closed. I think, also, the Navy began to realize that maybe the real estate here was the best they had on the East Coast. Land was getting scarce, and there wasn't too much interest in going out and buying new land. The govern- ment already had a lot of land, and many people were saying they were taking on too much land. So I think all of these things kind of came together at one time, and we were just lucky to get the building when we did. Of course, we've *AppUed Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page
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