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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.
- Virginia is home to a strong presence of federal research and development activities, including 11 Federally Funded R&D Centers and 19 FLC Laboratories such as the Homeland Security Institute, NASA Langley Research Center, and the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.
- Half of the private-sector R&D establishments in Virginia are focused on bioscience research, followed by information technology research.
- 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 still NASA'S innovation engine.
- 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.
- 12 unique research parks offer private companies opportunities for co-location and cooperative relationships with Virginia universities, federal labs, and other research consortium.
- Several nationally prominent private, non-profit research institutions include SRI’s Center for Advanced Drug Research in the Shenandoah Valley, the National Institute of Aerospace in Hampton, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Loudoun County.
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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 Georgia Tech, Hampton University, North Carolina A&T State University, North Carolina State University, the University of Maryland, the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, Old Dominion University, the College of William & Mary and the AIAA Foundation.
- 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 houses and supports more than 300 scientists across a wide range of disciplines engaged in biomedical research.
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