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Naval communications on Point Loma date back to the early 1900s with the commissioning of the Navy Radio Station Point Loma in 1906. The Navy chose Point Loma for its first West Coast laboratory in 1940. During the Center’s first three decades, it developed a Navywide reputation for its work in radio, tactical warfare simulators, information display and data management systems, sonar, lasers, navigation, satellite communication, and radar. In the 1980s, the Center achieved notable success in command and control, satellite communications, ocean surveillance, remotely operated vehicles, microelectronics and environmental research.