New Mexico’s Heritage

New Mexico has a proud history and culture of creative thinking. Brining ideas from dream to reality has been one of the State’s strengths for more than half a century. The R&D heritage of the state can be traced back from the early days of nuclear weapons research at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the infancy of the Apollo program at White Sands Missile Range to more modern spacecraft, solar and renewable energies, and hosts of other technologies of today.

Below is a just a sample of the Research & Development centers in New Mexico:

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Sandia National Laboratories

Air Force Research Laboratory

Space Vehicles Directorate: http://www.kirtland.af.mil/afrl_vs/

Directed Energy Directorate: http://www.kirtland.af.mil/afrl_de/

White Sands Missile Range

University of New Mexico

1. Institute for Space & Nuclear Power Studies
2. Manufacturing Training &Technology Center (MTTC)
3. Center for Microengineered Materials (CMEM)
4. Ceramic and Composite Materials Center (CCMC)

New Mexico State University

1. Physical Science Laboratory (PSL)
2. Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
3. Space Tele-Engineering Program

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology—New Mexico Tech

National Radio Astronomy Observatory (Very Large Array)