UNIVERSITY AFFILIATED RESEARCH CENTER

A 'University Affiliated Research Center (UARC)' is a strategic Department of Defense research center located within a university.
The four designated UARCs are:

★ the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) at Johns Hopkins University

★ the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at the Pennsylvania State University

★ the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington

★ the Applied Research Laboratories at the University of Texas at Austin
All four laboratories have been conducting research and development for the United States Navy for the last sixty years. In the 1990s, the Navy committed a relationship to the four university laboratories by designating them as University Affiliated Research Centers.
In July of 2004, the Navy proposed the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa as the fifth UARC. In response, the students of U.H. and the community protested with a 6-day sit in at the campus administration building.