Newport News offers technology-based companies access to an outstanding array of research, scientific expertise and engineering talent. Newport News is at the center of one of the most significant technology clusters on the East Coast. Our technology resources include two national laboratories — the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) in Newport News and the nearby NASA Langley Research Center. Each year, 1,700 scientists from the world over visit Jefferson Lab to conduct experiments and make their expertise available.

These federal laboratories and a variety of public and private centers of applied technology are engaged in research and technology transfer in such fields as photonics (including lasers and plasmas), nanotechnology, surface modification, advanced materials, aerospace, sensors, large-scale computer networks, software development, systems integration, modeling and simulation, fuel injection systems and naval engineering.

For more on how technology and knowledge-based companies can benefit by locating in Newport News, explore:

Technology Resources

Applied Research Center, a federal laboratory-university-industry center for collaborative research and development

Jefferson Lab’s Free Electron Laser, the world’s most powerful laser

NASA Langley Research Center

NASA Technology Commercialization Center

Sensor Science and Technology Forum of Hampton Roads

Virginia Advanced Shipbuilding and Carrier Integration Center, a world-class, industry-university research and development facility for the design and integration of systems and applications advanced naval research projects

Virginia Modeling and Simulation Center a university-government-industry sponsored center for the development of computer modeling and simulation applications.

Updated: 06.14.05