innovate. Collaborate. Advance.
For more than 50 years, HRL's scientists and engineers have been on the leading edge of technology, conducting pioneering research, providing real-world technology solutions, and advancing the state of the art. We continue to be recognized as one of the world's premier physical science and engineering research laboratories.
Our research collaborations with our LLC Member companies, government, commercial and academic institutions are realizing groundbreaking advances in ultra-high-performance circuitry, robust computing and communications, automated data extraction, and innovative architected materials. Our technologies operate in space, on aircraft, in automobiles, and in a variety of consumer products. These technologies make us safer, support our national security and improve our quality of life.
Our success is the result of our collaborative team of researchers, many of whom are the leading experts in their fields. Through their insights in support for our customers, we are finding the unique opportunities in technology. As we look to the future, the technologies we are enabling today will be integral to a prosperous, secure, sustainable world.
Company Overview
- Formerly Hughes Research Laboratories (established 1948)
- Formed as a Limited Liability Company (LLC) in 1997
- R&D for The Boeing Company and General Motors (LLC Members)
- Government and commercial contracts (prime and subcontractor)
- AS9100 accredited
- DoD Trusted Foundry
- 250,000 square feet of lab space
- 10,000-square-foot Class 10 clean room
- Located on 72 acres in Malibu, California
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About us
Celebrating 50 Years
of Laser Technology
May
16, 1960: Scientists at
Hughes Research
Laboratories
judiciously begin
to power what
would become
a world-changing
technology. In
a race to demonstrate
the first laser,
Drs. Theodore
Maiman, Irnee
D'Haenens, and
Charles Asawa
proved the laser
concept could
work. More >
HRL is proud to be a corporate partner in LaserFest, a year-long celebration of laser innovation.