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The Commonwealth is home to many internationally recognized
research and development (R&D) facilities. Federally funded R&D facilities, coupled
with the research from Virginia universities, provide Virginia businesses access
to leading researchers and cutting-edge technology. From the automotive industry
to medical research to the next generation of high technology, these research
facilities have something to offer your business.
- Twenty-nine federal R&D functions are located in Virginia, including 15 Department of Defense research centers, the new Homeland Security Institute, NASA Langley Research Center, and DOE’s unique Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.
- More than 200 private sector R&D facilities are located
in Virginia.
- NASA Langley Research Center propelled the U.S. to the moon in 1969 and today, on its 800 acre campus in Hampton, Virginia, Langley is at work developing space vehicles that may someday put a man on Mars.
- Wallops complex, located on Virginia's Eastern Shore, is NASA's principal center for management and implementation of suborbital research programs and a proven location for applied aerospace innovation. It is also the location of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport which will begin launching resupply missions to the Space Station when the Shuttle is retired.
- Eight unique research parks offer private companies opportunities for co-location and cooperative relationships with Virginia universities, federal labs, and other research consortium.
- Four nationally prominent private, non-profit research institutes have established significant centers in Virginia in recent years: SRI’s Center for Advanced Drug Research in the Shenandoah Valley, The National Institute of Aerospace in Hampton; The Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Loudoun County; and Carilion Biomedical Institute in Roanoke.
- The National Institute of Aerospace is a strategic partner of NASA Langley Research Center and conducts leading-edge aerospace research and development through a consortium of research universities including Virginia Tech, University of Virginia, Old Dominion University, William and Mary, Georgia Tech, University of Maryland and North Carolina State University.
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Northern Virginia is a unique new biomedical research complex modeled after the successful collaborative science centers in Europe. The complex will house and support 300 scientists across a wide range of disciplines engaged in biomedical research.
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