Wright Laboratory was a research and development organization operated by the United States Air Force Materiel Command. In 1997, the Laboratory was merged into the Air Force Research Laboratory.
The Laboratory was named after the Wright brothers, American pioneers of aviation and the namesake of Wright-Patterson AFB where Wright Laboratory was based.
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