Don Nolan-Proxmire
Headquarters, Washington, DC
(Phone: 202/358-1983)
Keith Henry
Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
(Phone: 757/864-6120)
RELEASE NO. 98-059 (NASA HQ Rel.
98-121)
NASA Langley Awards New Business Incubator
NASA Langley has awarded a cooperative agreement to establish a
high-technology business incubator at the Center, one of three
announced by the agency today.
The other cooperative agreements were awarded by the Goddard
Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD; and by the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA, combined with the Dryden Flight
Research Center, Edwards, CA.
The Langley award is to the Virginia
Center for Innovative Technology. Team members include Christopher
Newport University; Hampton Roads Partnership; Hampton Roads
Technology Council; Hampton
University; Mentor Technology Ventures; Norfolk State
University;
Small Business Development Center of Hampton Roads; and
the
College of William and Mary.
Goddard awarded the second new high-technology business
incubator to a team led by the Maryland Economic Development
Corporation. Team members include the Emerging Technology Center of
the Baltimore Development Corporation; University of Maryland,
Baltimore County; the Johns Hopkins University; the Morgan State
University (Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. School of Engineering); the
University of Maryland; The Abell Foundation; and the CAN
Company.
The third new high-technology business incubator award was made
by the NASA Management Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and
by the Dryden Flight Research Center to the California State
Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA. The university will build upon
ongoing success in the Pomona Technology Center, an independently
developed incubator, located in the technology park on university
land.
These business incubators will provide the U.S. start-up or
small existing high-technology firms and U.S. educational
institutions with a wide array of critical business development
support services for the primary purpose of commercially applying
NASA technology. Each new business incubator will receive funding
from NASA in the amount of $400,000 per year for fiscal years 1998
and 1999, and will in turn match (or exceed) NASA's contribution
through cash or in-kind funding from non-federal sources.
In addition to the establishment of these three new business
incubators at NASA centers, funds were also provided, based on
program guidelines, to the six existing NASA incubators to six
existing NASA incubators to enhance services to incubator firms.
The existing NASA-sponsored incubators include: the Ames Research
Center, Moffett Field, CA; the Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX;
the Kennedy Space Center, FL; the Lewis Research Center, Cleveland,
OH; the Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL; and the
Stennis Space Center, MS.
With the addition of the three new NASA business incubators to
the existing six, NASA now has in place a nationwide resource to
expand the growing high-technology interests of small businesses
and educational institutions. Further information on these awards
can be obtained through the following NASA center E-mail
addresses:
Ames Research Center (cblake@mail.arc.nasa.gov)
Dryden Flight Research Center (yvonne_kellogg@dfrc.nasa.gov)
Goddard Space Flight Center (galcorn@pop700.gsfc.nasa.gov)
JPL (NASA Management Office) (rdemoch@nmo.jpl.nasa.gov)
Johnson Space Center (henry.l.davis@jsc.nasa.gov)
Kennedy Space Center (jim.aliberti-1@ksc.nasa.gov)
Langley Research Center (c.l.allen@larc.nasa.gov)
Lewis Research Center (viterna@lerc.nasa.gov)
Marshall Space Flight Center (sally.little@msfc.nasa.gov)
Stennis Space Center (kirk.sharp@ssc.nasa.gov)
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