High Tech Draws A Skilled,
Educated Workforce
Newport News is home to the region's leading high-tech businesses
Northrop
Grumman Newport News Shipbuilding, Jefferson Labs and spin-off
firms from nearby NASA Langley Research Center make Newport News the
high-tech center of the region.
Thomas Jefferson National
Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) is an international center
for basic research of the atom’s nucleus at the quark level
and for applied research using its Free-Electron Lasers. VASCIC
is a center for advanced shipbuilding that's associated with the city's
largest employer, Northrop Grumman Newport News Shipbuilding. Among
area business parks, the largest is Oyster
Point with 800+ businesses.
Additional Newport News employers, development and business resources:
