NASA Langley Industry Day Presentations 9.22.2026.pdf

NASA Langley Industry Day Information Exchange on NASA

Langley’s Aerospace Innovation District Hub

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Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Agenda Time Topic Speaker / Details 9:00 – 9:15 am Welcome Dr. Trina Dyal, NASA Langley Center Director Session I: NASA Langley Capabilities, Opportunities & Strategic Alignment 9:15 – 10:15 am NASA Langley Overview and Core Capabilities Steve Gayle, Center Associate Director

NASA Langley’s Real Estate Strategy Beth DiGiovanni, NASA Langley Senior Advisor for Mission Support Integration and Real Estate Lead

10:15 – 10:30 am Morning Break (15 min.)

Information Sessions 10:30 – 11:00 am Session II, Option 1: Global Innovation Districts: How they are evolving, types, and keys to success Emily Crutcher, SVP, JLL, Innovation District Expert

Session II, Option 2: NASA’s Enhanced Use Lease (EUL) Authority and Process

Billy Driebergen, NASA Facilities and Real Estate Division Acting Director

11:15 am – 12:00 pm Session III, Option 1: Regional Economic Development Panel

Moderated by Bob McKenna, Virginia Peninsula Chamber of Commerce

- Swanka Burnette, Virginia Economic Development Partnership

- Doug Smith, Hampton Roads Alliance

- Nancy Grden, Hampton Roads Executive Roundtable

- Mike “Yaz” Yaskowsky, City of Hampton Economic

Development Session III, Option 2: Federal Partnership Authorities and Process

Joe Gasbarre, NASA Langley Strategic Partnerships Office Director

Agenda (cont’d)

Time Topic Speaker / Details 12:00 – 1:30 pm Lunch (1.5 hours) – Boxed Lunch hosted by the City of Hampton

Information Tables on NASA Langley’s six Core Capabilities, Center Operations, NASA Partnerships, and the Hampton Roads Region

12:45 – 1:15 pm: Talk on NASA Langley’s Legacy: 250 years of evolution, from the nation’s founding, to Apollo, Artemis, and beyond

Session IV: Center Tour (3 options – sign up for one) 1:30 – 3:15 pm Tour Option 1: Extended Parcel Tour: Includes bus tour of Langley’s real estate parcels with longer stops at the

Gantry and the historic Chesterville Site Tour Option 2: Condensed Parcel Tour and FDRF: Includes bus tour of Langley’s real estate parcels and tour of the Flight Dynamics Research Facility Tour Option 3: Condensed Parcel Tour and Hangar: Includes bus tour of Langley’s real estate parcels and tour of the NASA Langley Hangar

3:15 – 3:30 pm Afternoon Break (15 min) 3:30 – 4:15 pm Session V: Final Q&A and Wrap Up in Pearl Young Theater Moderator with a panel from the day’s speakers 4:15 – 5:00 pm Social Hour hosted by the City of Hampton Located in IESB, NACA Room

Housekeeping

• Guest WiFi – See handouts around the room

• Survey/Questions – See QR code in your handouts and to the right

• Open till the end of September 2026

• Tours – Sign up for one of the following three tours:

1. Extended Parcel Tour.

2. Condensed Parcel Tour with a visit to the Flight Dynamics Research

Facility (FDRF).

3. Condensed Parcel Tour with a visit to the NASA Langley Hangar.

• Breaks – we programmed two breaks (15 minutes in the AM and PM)

• Lunch, snacks, and social hour will be provided by the City of Hampton, thank you for your sponsorship!

• Food also available in the cafeteria and Splashdown Cafe

• Exchange shop is open to purchase your NASA gear!

• Lunch and Learn – two options:

1. Langley's Legacy: 250 years of evolution, from the nation's founding through Apollo, Artemis, and beyond.

2. Information tables highlighting Langley's core capabilities, opportunities, and local economic development.

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Survey closes 9/30

Welcome

Dr. Trina Dyal NASA Langley Center Director

Session I:

NASA Langley Capabilities, Opportunities & Strategic

Alignment

Steve Gayle, Center Associate Director Beth DiGiovanni, Senior Advisor for Mission Support Integration and Real Estate Lead

Steve Gayle Associate Director NASA Langley Research Center Director

September 22, 2026

Welcome to NASA’s Langley Research Center

Langley: Where NASA Began From N.A.C.A. to NASA

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Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD

Langley Research Center Hampton, VA

Wallops Flight Facility Wallops Island, VA

NASA Headquarters Washington, D.C.

Katherine Johnson IV & V Facility Fairmont, WV

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NASA Langley Today Workforce Field of Work

BudgetReal Property

• ~1,300 civil servants

• ~1,300 on-site contractors

• ~300 students

• ~180 buildings

• 764 acres

• $5.3B Current Replacement

Value

• ~68% Scientists and Engineers

• ~26% Business Professionals

• ~ 5% Technicians

• ~ 1% Administrative

• FY26 ~$855M

• Missions, Mission Support &

Center Operations

EXPLORATION AERONAUTICS SCIENCE

Langley’s Mission Portfolio

NASA Langley Core Capabilities Competency Purpose Missions Supported

Aerosciences Performs analysis of atmospheric vehicles (subsonic, hypersonic, EDL, launch vehicles).

Structures & Materials

Provides solutions across flight vehicles and in-space/surface systems (Artemis, SR-1).

Entry, Descent, and Landing

Provides EDL mission/vehicle design, operations, and post-flight processing.

Intelligent Flight Systems

Provides for UAS, airspace operations, and space systems solutions.

Systems Analysis Provides innovative concepts and risk-based systems/portfolio analysis.

Atmospheric Characterization Delivers data to support science priorities.

HSMD RTMD

HSMD RTMD SMD

HSMD RTMD

HSMD RTMD SMD

RTMD SMD

HSMD RTMD SMD

HSMD: Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate SMD: Science Mission DirectorateRTMD: Research and Technology Mission Directorate

Research Facilities

FlightSimulatorsGround Test Facilities

Laboratories

NASA Aerosciences, Major Capabilities SupersonicTransonic HypersonicSubsonic

20-In Supersonic Wind Tunnel Supersonic Flows

LANGLEY

Unitary Plan Wind Tunnels 11-Ft Transonic &

9x7-Ft Supersonic Tunnels

AMES

9x15-Ft Low-Speed Wind Tunnel Propulsion systems performance & acoustics

GLENN

8x6-Ft Supersonic Wind Tunnel

Propulsion systems performance

GLENN

SCRAMJET Complex Hypersonic Propulsion

LANGLEY

Aerothermodynamic Laboratory Complex*

Hypersonic Aerothermal

LANGLEY

Low-Speed Aeroacoustic Wind Tunnel Simulation of Jet Exhaust

LANGLEY

Flight Dynamics Research Facility Spin and Forced Oscillation

-Under Construction-

LANGLEY

Transonic Dynamics Tunnel***

Aeroelasticity & Flutter

LANGLEY

National Transonic Facility**

High Reynolds Number

LANGLEY

14x22-Ft Subsonic Tunnel Takeoff, Landing, Ground Wind

Loads & Aeroacoustics

LANGLEY

4-Ft Supersonic Wind Tunnel

Supersonic Vehicles

LANGLEY

8-Ft High Temperature Tunnel** Large-scale Hypersonics

& Propulsion

LANGLEY

10x10-Ft Supersonic Wind Tunnel Large-scale Supersonics &

Propulsion

GLENN

Icing Research Tunnel Aircraft Icing Condition Simulation

GLENN

Specialty Tunnels

* NASA Unique, ** Nationally Unique, *** World Unique LANGLEY WIND TUNNELS

Propulsion Simulation Laboratory Engine and Icing Simulation

GLENN

LANGLEY

0.3-m Transonic Cryogenic Tunnel

High Reynolds Number Flows http://gftd.larc.nasa.gov/GFTD/facilities/swt.html http://gftd.larc.nasa.gov/GFTD/facilities/scramjet.html http://gftd.larc.nasa.gov/GFTD/facilities/lal.html http://gftd.larc.nasa.gov/GFTD/facilities/lsawt.html http://gftd.larc.nasa.gov/GFTD/facilities/tdt.html http://gftd.larc.nasa.gov/GFTD/facilities/ntf.html http://gftd.larc.nasa.gov/GFTD/facilities/14x22.html http://gftd.larc.nasa.gov/GFTD/facilities/upwt.html http://gftd.larc.nasa.gov/GFTD/facilities/8ft_htt.html

Computational Tools

Supercomputing Clusters

The Katherine Johnson Computational Research Facility and a dedicated 5,700-compute core cluster for generating mission trajectories and vehicle performance analysis.

Frontier-Class AI & Digital Twins

Use of generative AI as an engineering co-pilot, machine learning, and digital twin flight systems to explore extensive trade spaces and concurrent design.

Aerothermodynamics & CFD Tools

Langley-developed computational aerosciences tools including LAURA, FUN3D, Hypersolve, HARA, and MAP.

Trajectory & Systems Analysis Tools

Systems Analysis for Planetary Entry 2 (MSAPE2), POST2 benchmark flight mechanics software, and NewSTEP for post-flight trajectory reconstruction.

Atmospheric Data Models

Global Reference Atmospheric Models and the Earth Radiation Budget dataset.

Advanced Manufacturing & Materials

Aeronautics Research Center of Excellence Aeronautics research, at its core, is the science of flight — advancing the ability to understand, navigate, and analyze any atmospheric medium across all speed regimes and vehicle classes.

• Understanding the atmospheres we fly through

• Developing vehicles for air and space

• Advancing flight across all speed regimes

Atmospheric Characterization

Experimental Research

Computational Analysis

Integrated Systems Assessment

Technology Maturation

Operational Validation

Combines…

Aviation

Atmospheric Flight

Entry and Descent on Earth & Other Celestial Bodies

Science

Human Exploration

Other NASA & National Priorities

Enables… nasa.gov

Exploring the secrets of the universe for the benefit of all.

Exploring the secrets of the universe for the benefit of all.

NASA Langley’s Real Estate Strategy

Beth DiGiovanni, NASA Langley Senior Advisor for Mission Support Integration and Real Estate Lead September 22, 2026

Real Estate Strategy Development Center Master Plan (CMP) Visioning Developing a 20-year vision for Langley’s future infrastructure and infrastructure goals for its critical capabilities to support both NASA and the Nation;

leveraging the capabilities and needs across the growing regional aerospace ecosystem.

Near-term Real Estate Goal Attract major organizations to become additional anchors to the NASA Langley Aerospace Innovation District, by leasing Langley’s underdeveloped real estate to key tenants in the next two years. Ultimately, establishing the “Langley Gateway” and attracting new aerospace partners to the regional ecosystem.

A Vision for New, High-Value Infrastructure

What are your visions and goals for transforming the Mid-Atlantic’s aerospace ecosystem?

Pre-decisional illustration

NASA Langley Aerospace Innovation District NASA Langley AID

Langley will lead as an integrating hub across the ecosystem to close technical capability gaps and accelerate innovation.

Initial Real Estate Ideas to Establish the NASA Langley AID

Supporting National Priorities

Supporting NASA’s Missions & Priorities

Supporting Langley’s Institutional Needs

• Hypersonics Center of Excellence Incubator

• Other Governmental Agency (OGA) Partnerships Area and Secure Conference Facilities

• International Commercial Companies’ US Subsidiary and Academic Institutions’ Partner

• Mid-Atlantic Aerospace RDT&E Integration Hub o Research, Development, Testing & Evaluation accelerator for Aerospace products and missions o Payload processing for space payloads o Airborne testing

• Autonomous Systems

Regional Hub o Regional air mobility ports and comms navigation surveillance towers

• Lunar (Mars) Integrated Surface Testing Facility

• Langley Gateway and Academic Consortium

• Public Access to the Land’s History

• Infrastructure Development oRenewable energy farms oData centers oHotel/housing for visitors, and students

Langley Real Estate Parcels for RFI

1a

2a

Lunar / Mars Simulation

Historic Park

BVLOS /

Waterway Transportation

Multiple Vertiports

Langley Gateway

Steam Plant

Renewable Energy

OGA

Area

Payload Processing & Instrument Integration

Logistics Intake

All ideas are pre-decisional. Parcels 1, 2, and 5 are under consideration for the first Announcement for Proposals

Idea for Parcel 1: Lunar Surface Simulator

Pre-decisional illustration

Idea for Parcel 1a: Historic Park next to Lunar Simulation

Artist's rendering of George Wythe's brick home, built at Chesterville c. 1771. Original image from NASA Cultural Resources (CRGIS).

Tomblin Wildlife Management Area Elk Viewing Tower and Visitor Center https://zmm.com/proj ects/tomblin-wildlife-management-area

Honoring our local history and natural beauty https://wythepedia.wm.edu/index.php?title=George_Wythe http://crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/historic/File:Chesterville.jpg http://crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/historic/File:Chesterville.jpg https://zmm.com/projects/tomblin-wildlife-management-area https://zmm.com/projects/tomblin-wildlife-management-area https://zmm.com/projects/tomblin-wildlife-management-area https://zmm.com/projects/tomblin-wildlife-management-area https://zmm.com/projects/tomblin-wildlife-management-area https://zmm.com/projects/tomblin-wildlife-management-area https://zmm.com/projects/tomblin-wildlife-management-area https://zmm.com/projects/tomblin-wildlife-management-area

Idea for Parcel 4: NASA Langley Gateway

Design & Innovation Building, UC San Diego Sears think[box], Case Western University

Kendall Square, MIT

Langley Gateway AI Generated Image university consortium design & innovation multi-floor makerspace | conference spaces and dedicated badge and pass for accelerated access | visitor hotel graduate student housing | parking garage retail shops and restaurants | green gathering space

Pre-decisional illustration https://dib.ucsd.edu/ https://case.edu/thinkbox/

Langley Real Estate Strategy Near-term Activities

Finalized Langley’s Core Capability Vision to inform Center Master Planning and initial real estate vision

Conducted community workshop(s) with key state and regional entities to refine vision and strategic approach

July 1: Request for Interest released (open for one year)

Completed baseline Environmental Due Diligence

• Early January: Issue first Announcement for Proposals (AFP 1) for proposal-ready sites

• First Week in February: AFP 1 Industry Day aligned to Virginia Aerospace Days

• June: AFP 1 proposals due

• June 30, 2027: RFI closes

• Summer: Proposal evaluation for AFP 1 selection determinations by September 2027

January – September 2026

October – December 2026

January – September 2027

• Launch Federal, State, and Local engagement strategy on the NASA Langley Aerospace Innovation District

• Establish site readiness action plan to mature priority parcels and sites

• Determine regulating plans and site use criteria for each parcel

September 22 Industry Day

Morning Break:

10:15 to 10:30

Session II:

Global Innovation Districts:

How they are evolving, types, and keys to success

Emily Crutcher, Senior Vice President, JLL Innovation District Expert

Session III:

Regional Economic Development

Panel

Swanka Burnette Business Manager, Aerospace &

Defense, Virginia Economic Development

Partnership

Doug Smith President & CEO, Hampton Roads Alliance

Bob McKenna President & CEO, Virginia Peninsula Chamber

Moderator

Speakers

Nancy Grden President & CEO

Hampton Roads Executive Roundtable

Mike “Yaz” Yaskowsky Deputy Director, Economic

Development City of Hampton

NASA Langley Industry Day Session III: Regional Economic Development Panel

Lunch:

12:00 to 1:30

Boxed Lunch hosted by the City of Hampton

Information Tables on NASA Langley’s six Core Capabilities, Center Operations, NASA Partnerships, and the Hampton Roads Region

12:45 – 1:15 pm: Talk on NASA Langley’s Legacy:

250 years of evolution, from the nation’s founding, to Apollo, Artemis, and beyond

Session IV:

Center Tours 1:30-3:15

Pick up near South Entrance

Tour Option 1: Extended Parcel Tour: Includes bus tour of Langley’s real estate parcels with longer stops at the Gantry and the historic Chesterville Site.

Tour Option 2: Condensed Parcel Tour and FDRF: Includes bus tour of Langley’s real estate parcels and tour of the Flight Dynamics Research Facility

Tour Option 3: Condensed Parcel Tour and Hangar:

Includes bus tour of Langley’s real estate parcels and tour of the NASA Langley Hangar