WRA develops the first industrial research facility for oceanography. Built for Westinghouse, it serves as a state-of-the-art laboratory and testing ground of generations of Cousteau’s Deepstar submersibles.

His Deepstar 4000 submersible allows a three-person crew to venture nearly a mile beneath the ocean surface.

WRA handles civil site and land development for Columbia, MD, a planned community with the mission of improving quality of life and eliminating racial and class segregation.

The post-WWII trend of the middle-class trading city life for yards and picket fences reshapes the American experience.

Engineers design the Bendix ESAR (Electronically Steerable Array Radar) Facility and Spadat Radar AN/FPS 85 Space Tracker to monitor objects in orbit.

In his 1961 speech to Congress, President Kennedy challenges the nation to send a man to the moon and bring him back safely—before the end of the decade.

WRA spearheads an array of projects including JFK Memorial Highway, MD 177, I-95 in Wilmington, and multiple byways in Virginia.

To improve aging roads, President Kennedy approves the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1961, adding $900M to the interstate program.

WRA designs the Susquehanna Water Supply line, nicknamed "The Big Inch"—a 9-foot wide pipe transporting water from the river to hundreds of thousands in central Maryland.

The Old Line State's population increases 70% from the 1930s and 1950s, creating an insatiable demand for water.