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<p>OOPS. I meant JHU would still have been #1 in R&D expenditures (minus APL) in 2006, not 2007. </p>
<p>Including APL is NSF’s decision, NOT JHU’s… because APL is a UARC, not a FFDRC.</p>
<p>Plus, it’s financially impossible to separate APL (research arm of the University) from annual financial reports as a non-profit organization that has tax-exempt status. </p>
<p>It’s not like JHU lied by saying Argonne/Fermilab was financially and institutionally apart of UChicago (because UChicago only manages employment contracts with externally sourced scientists), Caltech incorporate JPL into it’s budget, or Berkeley reporting LLNL, LNBL, etc… in it’s financial budget (since they each operate it for the federal government, they do not own the entire laboratory like JHU does)</p>
<p>Just imagine APL as an extension of the engineering school with a campus 4 times larger than Homewood dedicated solely for research & development for NASA and DoD. 
MIT has an equivalent (MIT Lincoln Lab) that conducts $700 million for the federal government, but MIT only operates and manages it, it does not function as a UARC like JHU APL does)</p>
<p>President Eisenhower told JHU to keep running APL after WW2. JHU would have dismantled APL long after developing the proximity fuse (rated along with Berkeley’s atom bomb and MIT’s Radar as fundamental 3 most important inventions that aided Allied Victory in WW2)</p>