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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.
The Aerospace Corporation: Aerospace is a nonprofit company that operates a federally funded research and development center for the Air Force and also works with other government agencies and commercial firms. Its dedicated engineers and scientists work independently and objectively to ensure continued access to, and operations in space for our nation’s military and for civil and commercial organizations working in the national interest.
Air
Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR): Manages the basic research
investment for the U.S. Air Force (USAF). As a part of the Air Force Research
Laboratory (AFRL), AFOSR's technical experts foster and fund research within the
Air Force Research Laboratory, universities, and industry laboratories to ensure
the transition of research results to support USAF needs. Using a carefully balanced
research portfolio, research managers seek to create revolutionary scientific
breakthrough, enabling the Air Force and U.S. industry to produce world-class,
militarily significant, and commercially valuable products.
Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI): Maximizes individual and unit performance and readiness to meet the full range of Army operations through advances in the behavioral and social sciences.
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory's Army Research Office (ARO): Serves as the Army's premier extramural basic research agency in the engineering, physical, information and life sciences; developing and exploiting innovative advances to insure the Nation's technological superiority.
The MITRE DoD C3I Research and Development Center: Was established in 1958 to support the development and fielding of electronically-based air defense systems. Today, the C3I supports a broad and diverse set of sponsors within the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. These include the military departments, defense and intelligence agencies, the combatant commands, and elements of both the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Center for Naval Analyses (CNA): The Center for Naval Analyses is a federally funded research and development center serving the Department of the Navy and other defense agencies. For over 50 years, the CNA has provided "full-service" research and analysis services that have helped the military become more effective and efficient. CNA analysts pioneered the field of operations research through their groundbreaking work with the Navy during World War II. Today, our goal is the same as it was then: to use scientific techniques to support the effective use of naval forces — and other defense concerns.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA): Is the central research and development organization for the DoD. It manages and directs selected basic and applied research and development projects for DoD, and pursues research and technology where risk and payoff are both very high and where success may provide dramatic advances for traditional military roles and missions.
Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC): Is the premier provider of DoD technical information. DTIC serves as a vital link in the transfer of information among DOD personnel, DOD contractors and potential contractors and other U.S. Government agency personnel and their contractors. DTIC is a DOD Field Activity under the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, reporting to the Director, Defense Research & Engineering (DDR&E).
Directorate for Biological Sciences: The mission of the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) is to enable discoveries for understanding life. BIO-supported research advances the frontiers of biological knowledge, increases our understanding of complex systems, and provides a theoretical basis for original research in many other scientific disciplines.
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Clearinghouse: EEREC provides information and technical assistance to consumers, educators, businesses, utilities, industry and government on topics including alternative fuels, photovoltaics, wind energy, solar heating and weatherization.
EPA’s Technology Innovation Program: The mission of the Technology Innovation Program (TIP), formerly known as the Technology Innovation Office, is to advocate more effective, less costly approaches (i.e. "smarter solutions") by government and industry to assess and clean up contaminated waste sites, soil, and groundwater. Working with other federal agencies, states, consulting engineering firms, responsible parties, technology developers, and the investment community, TIP provides robust technology and market information and works to remove policy and institutional impediments related to the deployment of these technologies.
FAA’s Center for Advanced Aviation System Development: As the federally-funded research and development center for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), CAASD is dedicated to improving aviation system safety, security, and performance. In addition to the FAA, our customers include the Transportation Security Administration, NASA, the Federal Communications Commission, and other government organizations. CAASD also performs work for international clients and conducts collaborative research with industry. Ultimately, we serve the aviation community around the world.
FBI Forensic Science Research Unit: The FBI Laboratory is one of the largest and most comprehensive crime laboratories in the world and provides forensic and technical services to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies at no expense to these agencies.
Federal Highway Administration’s Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center: TFHRC provides FHWA and the world highway community with the most advanced research and development related to new highway technologies. The research focuses on providing solutions to complex technical problems through the development of more economical, environmentally sensitive designs; more efficient, quality controlled constructions practices; and more durable materials. The end result is a safer, more reliable highway transportation system.
Homeland Security Institute: The Homeland Security Institute (HSI) is a Studies and Analysis Federally Funded Research and Development Center established pursuant to Section 312 of the Homeland Security Act of 20021. HSI delivers independent and objective analyses and advises in core areas important to its sponsor in support of policy development, decision-making, analysis of alternative approaches, and evaluation of new ideas on issues of significance. The need for HSI was documented in the National Research Council's 2002 report, Making the Nation Safer.
Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA): The Institute for Defense Analyses is a non-profit corporation that administers three federally funded research and development centers to provide objective analyses of national security issues, particularly those requiring scientific and technical expertise, and conduct related research on other national challenges.
IRS Center for Enterprise Modernization: The Center for Enterprise Modernization (CEM), advances enterprise modernization and more effective operations within the IRS and across a wide range of civilian government agencies. By adopting each customer's mission as our own, CEM fosters practical, responsive partnerships dedicated to improving business processes, systems, and governance.
Missile Defense Agency National Technology Transfer Center: The Missile Defense Agency funds technology research and development projects at small and large businesses, universities, and Federal laboratories. These projects advance MDA's future capabilities for the ballistic missile defense system to protect our Nation, allies, friends, and troops from ballistic missile attacks.
NASA Wallops Flight Facility: Established in 1945, Wallops Flight Facility is NASA’s principal facility for management and implementation of suborbital research programs. Research is centered on providing a fast, low-cost, highly flexible and safe response to meet the needs of the U.S. aerospace technology and science research. Its facilities are also used for space and aeronautics research and commercial launches.
National Radio Astronomy Observatory: The National Radio Astronomy Observatory designs, builds and operates the world's most sophisticated and advanced radio telescopes. Scientists from around the world use these powerful tools to study the Sun, planets and other objects in our own solar system, as well as distant stars, galaxies, and other mysterious objects many millions, or even billions of light-years away.
Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division: Its mission is to provide research, development, test and evaluation, analysis, systems engineering, integration and certification of complex naval warfare systems related to surface warfare, strategic systems, combat and weapons systems associated with surface warfare. Provide system integration and certification for weapons, combat systems and warfare systems. Execute other responsibilities as assigned by the Commander, Naval Surface Warfare Center.
Office of Naval Research (ONR): The Office of Naval Research coordinates, executes, and promotes the science and technology programs of the United States Navy and Marine Corps through schools, universities, government laboratories, and nonprofit and for-profit organizations. It provides technical advice to the Chief of Naval Operations and the Secretary of the Navy and works with industry to improve technology manufacturing processes.
Science & Technology Policy Institute: The Science and Technology Policy Institute (S&T PI) is a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) that provides analytic support to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). It was chartered by an act of Congress in 1991 and began operation in 1992. The National Science Foundation, the sponsor of the FFRDC, awarded the RAND Corporation the contract to manage S&T PI after the nonprofit corporation won a competitive selection process. NSF renewed RAND's contract in April 1998 after a formal review of the government's need for the FFRDC and the value of its contributions to the U.S. science and technology enterprise.RAND continued to operate the institute through November 30, 2003. As of December 1, 2003, S&T PI is managed by the Institute for Defense Analyses.
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) is funded by the Office of Science for the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) with strong support from the City of Newport News, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the United States Congress. As a user facility for scientists worldwide, its primary mission is to conduct basic research of the atom's nucleus at the quark level.
U.S. Army National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC): NGIC's mission is to produce all-source integrated intelligence on foreign ground forces and support combat technologies to ensure that U.S. forces and other decision makers will always have a decisive edge on any battlefield.
US Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Topographic Engineering Center (USATEC): TEC's mission is to provide the warfighter with a superior knowledge of the battlefield and to support the nation's civil and environmental initiatives. This mission is accomplished through research, development, and the application of expertise in the topographic and related sciences.
USJFCOM/JWFC Joint Training, Analysis, and Simulation Center (JTASC): JTASC provides a single source for joint training and warfighting support through modeling and simulation, doctrine development and joint force capability experimentation.
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