The Berkeley Space Center, renamed Berkeley Air & Space Center, has expanded to include a focus on aviation. Campus has since appointed Victoria Coleman, the former chief scientist for the U.S. Air Force, as associate provost of the center.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The new focus on aviation \u201creflects both Berkeley\u2019s academic strengths and growing interest from companies and research groups working in advanced aviation, aerospace, and related fields,\u201d according to campus spokesperson Dan Mogulof in an email.<\/p>\n
The Berkeley Air & Space Center, a joint venture of UC Berkeley and SKS Partners \u2014 a commercial real estate development firm \u2014 describes itself on its website as \u201can innovation center \u2026 in the heart of Silicon Valley.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a long-term investment in research and learning,\u201d Coleman said in an email. \u201cThe goal is to build a place where Berkeley\u2019s students and faculty can engage directly with real-world challenges in air and space technologies, alongside industry-leading partners who are pushing those fields forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
The expanded center will be located at NASA Research Parkat NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California \u2014 about an hour-long drive away from Berkeley. According to the website, the center will allow private industry and government to work together to \u201cidentify, incubate and launch tomorrow\u2019s technological breakthroughs.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBeyond the increased scale and widened aviation and space focus, the project is unchanged,\u201d Mogulof said in the email. \u201cThe goal remains the same: a thoughtfully designed, mixed-use, advanced R&D hub. Plans continue to emphasize flexible wet and dry lab spaces, shared amenities, and design features that encourage interaction and collaboration among UC Berkeley faculty and students, industry partners, and researchers at NASA Ames.\u201d<\/p>\n
The master plan for the project includes residential space, public and private research facilities, community areas and more, according to the project\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
Mogulof added in the email that the project expects to receive full legal and regulatory entitlement, which would provide planning-level approval for the development, by the fall of 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Construction and occupancy will occur in a phased approach over several years, according to Mogulof. This phased strategy will allow Berkeley Air & Space Center to respond to \u201cevolving academic and research priorities, tenant market evolution and needs, and long-term innovation opportunities,\u201d he added in the email.<\/p>\n
Campus and SKS Partners are currently engaging with potential tenants for the space and plan to increase activity leading up to the expected time of full entitlement, Mogulof said in the email.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Initial anchor tenants are expected to be announced sometime this year, according to Mogulof.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe broadened focus will allow the project to better support research, teaching, and industry collaboration across air- and space-related technologies while remaining consistent with the project\u2019s original innovation-driven mission,\u201d Mogulof said in the email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Berkeley Space Center, renamed Berkeley Air & Space Center, has expanded to include a focus on aviation.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[78617,78616,14760,194,78621,78620,143,145,144,2280,78619,66268,78618],"class_list":{"0":"post-162039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-berkeley-air-and-space-center","9":"tag-berkeley-space-center","10":"tag-dan-mogulof","11":"tag-mountain-view","12":"tag-nasa-ames-research-center","13":"tag-nasa-research-park","14":"tag-oakland","15":"tag-oakland-headlines","16":"tag-oakland-news","17":"tag-silicon-valley","18":"tag-sks-partners","19":"tag-u-s-air-force","20":"tag-victoria-coleman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}