the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center, known locally as the Corporate Research Center or the CRC, is a science park

Science park

A research park, science park, or science and technology park is an area with a collection of buildings dedicated to scientific research on a business footing. There are many approximate synonyms for "science park", including research park, technology park, technopolis and biomedical park...

 on the Virginia Tech campus

Virginia Tech campus

The Virginia Tech campus is located in Blacksburg, Virginia; the central campus is roughly bordered by Prices Fork Road to the northwest, Plantation Drive to the west, Main Street to the east, and U.S. Route 460 bypass to the south, although it also has several thousand acres beyond the central...

 in Blacksburg, Virginia

Blacksburg, Virginia

Blacksburg is an incorporated town located in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States, with a population of 42,620 at the 2010 census. Blacksburg, Christiansburg, and Radford are the three principal jurisdictions of the Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford Metropolitan Statistical Area which...

 comprising 27 completed buildings totaling 1000000 square feet (92,903 m²) on 120 acre (0.4856232 km²) of land. The CRC is located adjacent to the Virginia Tech Airport

Virginia Tech Montgomery Executive Airport

Virginia Tech Montgomery Executive Airport is a public airport located three miles south of the central business district of Blacksburg, a town in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States.- Facilities and aircraft :...

.

Computer Science Department

Virginia Tech's Computer Science department, which was previously based in Torgersen Hall, was moved here in 2006.

Companies located in the CRC

The CRC currently has 121 tenants

Leasehold estate

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 and attracts an average of 20 new tenant companies each year. Tenants of the CRC include: the Defense Contract Management Agency

Defense Contract Management Agency

The Defense Contract Management Agency is the agency of the United States federal government responsible for performing contract administration services for the Department of Defense and other authorized federal agencies. Its headquarters is at Fort Lee, Va...

, Honeywell Corporation

Honeywell

Honeywell International, Inc. is a major conglomerate company that produces a variety of consumer products, engineering services, and aerospace systems for a wide variety of customers, from private consumers to major corporations and governments....

, the Virginia Tech Institute for Critical Technology & Applied Sciences, the National Weather Service and many others.

See also

• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, popularly known as Virginia Tech , is a public land-grant university with the main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia with other research and educational centers throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States, and internationally.Founded in...
  
  
• Virginia Tech#Virginia Tech Foundation
• System X (computing)
  System X (computing)
  System X is a supercomputer assembled by Virginia Tech's Advanced Research Computing facility in the summer of 2003 that was originally composed of 1,100 Apple Power Mac G5 computers. System X ran at 12.25 Teraflops, , and was ranked #3 on November 16, 2003 and #280 in the July 2008 edition of...
  
  
• Virginia Tech Foundation
  Virginia Tech Foundation
  The Virginia Tech Foundation is a 501 nonprofit nonstock corporation established in 1948 to receive, manage, and disburse private gifts in support of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University programs...