The University of Hawaii and the U.S. Navy have agreed on a deal to open an Applied Research Laboratory that would bring the university $10-million a year in military-research projects on its flagship Manoa campus, The Honolulu Advertiser reported on Tuesday. The agreement, which is subject to approval by the university’s Board of Regents, defies a range of critics, including Native Hawaiian groups and a majority of the campus’s faculty members and students, who have said such a lab would militarize the university and violate its humanistic mission. The deal, which is somewhat more modest than originally proposed, would give the university the country’s fifth Navy University Affiliated Research Center. —Andrew Mytelka