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the U.S. biological weapons
program from 1943 to 1969, the
U.S. Army Medical Command
Installation in Frederick is
now home to many biological defense programs. The
U.S. Army Medical Research
and Development Command,
the U.S. Army Medical
Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, the National
Cancer Institute-Frederick, the National Center for
Medical Intelligence, the
National Interagency Biodefense Campus and the Department of Homeland Security’s
National Biodefense Analysis
and Countermeasures Center
are among the many programs
that operate on Fort Detrick’s
1,200-acre campus.
Fort George G. Meade
Named for a Civil War
general who served as
commander for the Army of
the Potomac, Fort George
G. Meade makes up a large
portion of western Anne Arun-
del County. Opened in 1917 as
a training camp for soldiers, it
was used as a recruit training
post and prisoner of war camp
during World War II. Today, it
is known for being the headquarters of the National Security Agency, which it has been
since 1957. Fort Meade is also
home to the United States
Cyber Command, the Defense
Courier Service, Defense
Information Systems Agency
headquarters and the U.S.
Navy’s Cryptologic Warfare
Group Six.
COAST GUARD
U.S. Coast Guard Yard and
Surface Forces Logistics
Center
Since it was established in
1899, the Coast Guard Yard
has built, repaired and renovated ships for the U.S. Coast
Guard. Located on Curtis Bay
in Baltimore, the Coast Guard
Yard is the Coast Guard’s
only shipbuilding and major
repair facility. It operates as a
revolving fund activity with
an annual revenue of about
$100 million, according to its
website. In 2009, the Surface
Forces Logistics Center was
established at the Coast Guard
Yard, uniting divided parts of
the Coast Guard’s fleet mission
support system. It is the single
logistics center for the Coast
Guard’s surface fleet, providing engineering, maintenance,
supply and technical information services to more than
1,800 boats stationed throughout the U.S.
NAVY
U.S. Naval Academy
The 338-acre campus of
the U.S. Naval Academy is
located along the Severn
River in Annapolis and is the
second-oldest of the country’s five service academies.
The Naval School moved from
Philadelphia to Annapolis in
1845, under Secretary of the
Navy George Bancroft. Five
years later, it became the Naval
Academy, with a new curriculum requiring midshipmen
to study at the Academy for
four years and train aboard
ships each summer. Over the
years, the student body has
grown from 50 to 4,377 and
began accepting women in
1976. Females now comprise
29.5 percent of plebes entering
the academy. The campus is a
National Historic Landmark
and home to many historic
sites, buildings and monuments.
Naval Support
Activity – Annapolis
Across the Severn River
from the U.S. Naval Academy is NSA Annapolis. Officially commissioned in 2006,
Annapolis has been home to
naval aviation since 1911. The
Naval Station began to take
shape in the late 1930s, and
U.S. involvement in World War
II led to the establishment of
the Severn River Command
in 1941. The Naval Air Facility
was reestablished at the present site of the Naval Station
later that same year. The 2006
transition aimed to provide
more efficient support of training midshipmen and faculty,
staff and family members at the
Naval Academy.
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