A few words, buried deep in the Pentagon budget, could change Annapolis forever

For almost 100 years, a Navy research lab worked on secret projects just across the Severn River from the Naval Academy in Annapolis. The David Taylor Research Center opened in 1903, and at its peak in the 1960s employed more than 1,400 engineers, metallurgists, chemists and others working to make the ships and subs smarter, faster and quieter.