CHINA LAKE
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW

Entrance to the NOTS Pasadena Annex, 1965; the Pasadena facilities were the site of CalTech's wartime torpedo program and were added to NOTS in 1945; NOTS Pasadena was the center of underwater-ordnance RDT&E until the 1967 consolidation that created NWC removed that aspect of the mission.