
The Navy base at Point Loma, with one side facing the open ocean and the other on the mouth of San Diego Bay, is the home of the Naval Electronics Laboratory, now part of the Naval Information Warfare Center. The lab is an important electromagnetic research entity, which dates back to World War II, and has several test sites and R&D complexes, including the Transducer Evaluation Center, with its acoustically inert anechoic pool. Also on site is an antenna pattern range, a nanosatellite testing lab, facilities used for C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) research, and more. The lab was the first Naval lab on the West Coast, and was followed by the Naval Ordnance Test Station at Caltech, which moved to the Mojave, and became China Lake Naval Weapons Station.