Company Profile
McLaughlin Research Corporation
Company Overview
Multi-Disciplined Engineering and Technical Support Solutions
MRC has been providing multi-disciplined engineering and technical support solutions since 1947. Our prime contractor experience has been acquired through more than 75 major Navy IDIQ contracts and over 50 Naval Sea Systems Command SeaPort Enhanced (SeaPort-e) task orders for service.
Mission:
Deliver the highest quality products, services and solutions on time and on budget.
Philosophy:
Provide unparalleled attention to detail in all of our products and services
Achieve our goals in the most honest, responsible way
Strive for excellence in all aspects of our work
Make our customers our #1 priority all of the time
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:
McLaughlin Research Corporation is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. It is our policy to recruit, hire, promote, and train for all positions without regard to age, race, creed, religion, national origin, gender identity, marital status, sexual orientation, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, status as a person with a disability, amnesty or status as a protected veteran, minorities, and to base all such decisions upon the individual's qualifications and ability to perform the work assigned, consistent with contractual requirements and all federal, state and, local laws.
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Company History
Early in 1941, McLaughlin Research was founded under the name of McLaughlin-Carr Associates and operated under that name until incorporating under our present name in 1947. The firm’s original activity was in engineering and design of airports. Working on airports in the Philadelphia area, McLaughlin-Carr became familiar with some of the production problems at the Naval Aircraft Factory and subsequently devised a plan to speed up production through the use of visual assembly charts (production illustrations). This plan worked so well that we conducted similar projects for the Naval Gun Factory and the Bureau of Ordnance throughout the war.
In 1944 when the Navy was confronted with the decision to abandon a valuable fire control system project that was nearly 75 percent completed or to seek outside help, it turned to McLaughlin-Carr, who by that time had vast experience in other fire control systems, for the job. The firm successfully operated the program until the system went into production by General Electric. Our efforts in this project led to our receiving the Naval Ordnance Award from the U.S. Navy.
In the years following the war, the firm, by then renamed McLaughlin Research, prepared thousands of engineering reports, technical manuals, provisioning documents and conducted special studies covering a wide spectrum of naval equipment. Other customers during that period included the U.S. Army and Air Force, Sperry Gyroscope, Bell Laboratories, and Stromberg Carlson.
McLaughlin Research began furnishing automatic data processing (ADP) services in 1956, when it assisted the IBM Military Products Division in the preparation of the 14-volume SAGE System parts catalog. This parts catalog was one of the first large projects to be prepared by ADP methods. For the next eight years, as IBM introduced design improvements in equipment, McLaughlin Research developed innovative configuration management techniques to maintain this catalog up to date through 27 configurations of the system. After this beginning, McLaughlin Research introduced ADP parts provisioning documentation to many companies, including IBM Commercial Products, General Electric, Sperry Gyroscope, Collins Radio, Sylvania, RCA, and Grumman.
During the 1950s and ’60s, dozens of skilled writers, illustrators, and production personnel in McLaughlin’s film division, working out of studios in New York and Washington, D.C., produced award-winning informational and training films for government and industry on subjects ranging from the Tennessee Valley Authority (This Is the TVA and TVA and the Nation) to the U.S. Air Force’s Minuteman missile system (Minuteman and You and Ground Electronics System for Minuteman).
In the 1960s, McLaughlin Research continued to provide state-of-the-art technical support for military-industrial programs, such as the acquisition and fielding of the sea-based leg of the nation’s strategic deterrence triad, the Polaris fleet ballistic missile system. Using early IBM mainframe computers, McLaughlin Research logisticians and configuration managers monitored complex manufacturing and shipping schedules to ensure on-time delivery of system components, earning the Navy’s Polaris Team flag for the company.
Since the early 1970s, McLaughlin Research has provided a wide variety of life cycle support services for U.S. Navy undersea weapon and combat system programs from our offices in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Washington under more than 100 major cost-plus fixed fee (CPFF), indefinite duration/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contracts and over 50 NAVSEA SeaPort Enhanced task orders. Tasking during the past four decades has ranged from designing world class research and development laboratory facilities to installing and operating sensitive electronic test equipment aboard submarines from the Mediterranean to the Pacific; from tracking the configuration status of every submarine-launched torpedo in the U.S. Navy inventory to analyzing the technical and financial status of major system acquisition programs, such as the Seawolf and Virginia class submarines; and from developing National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) implementation and compliance-related reports and manuals to creating interactive computer-based training and integrated, multimedia courses for U.S. and allied navy customers.
Today, McLaughlin Research looks back with pride on our accomplishments in the past — and forward with confidence in our ability to help our customers meet the challenges that lie ahead.
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