The Industry Forum membership consists of representatives from companies including: Albers, Inc.; Aurora Flight Sciences; The Boeing Company; Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.; Excalibur Almaz, Inc.; Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation; Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Lockheed Martin Corporation; Luna Innovations Incorporated; MBI International; New Mexico Space Grant Consortium; Oceaneering Space Systems; The Health Central Network; and Wyle Laboratories, Inc. This insures the inclusion of consensus leaders in the aerospace industry who have experience in partnering with NASA in the commercial development of technologies adapted from the space program.

Purpose and Duties

The IF will strive to partner with the Institute by:

• Identifying technologies in development by research teams that have the potential for commercialization;
• Providing new technologies for use by the research teams and through direct financial support to the research teams;
• Identifying operational problems of space flight that have relevance to space-based research enterprises;
• Contributing to cost-sharing; and,
• Assisting in leveraging Federal support to the Institute through cooperative activities

The Industry Forum will convene at least semi-annually, with teleconferences offset 3 months from each of these meetings. NSBRI administration will be notified well in advance of upcoming Industry Forum activities.

Administrative Provisions

The Industry Forum will be an independent body that will interact with, but not be governed by, NSBRI. Leadership of the forum is by majority election of a member company representative to a one year term as Executive Secretary. Administrative support for the Executive Secretary will be provided by the elected individual's company, and will be considered in-kind support. The forum will receive no operating budget from NSBRI, with the exception of use of the NSBRI headquarters conference room facility for semi-annual meetings as deemed appropriate by the forum representatives. Representatives to the forum will serve at the discretion of the member companies who employ them; NSBRI administration will play no role in the selection of representatives. Member companies may use the Institute logo at their discretion, and may identify themselves as NSBRI Forum members in correspondence.