Aerospace & Technology

Titusville and North Brevard County have a long and storied association with the United States space program. For more than fifty years the barrier island across the Indian River lagoon from Titusville has served as the launch site of historic unmanned and manned rockets at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The Titusville community has been rooted in research and technology development with companies such as AstroTech, the Boeing Company, and United Space Alliance situated here to support the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in space exploration and research. In 2005 there were 13,500 workers on KSC, which in conjunction with the thousands of employees in facilities in Titusville play an important part of the $4.5 billion space industry here in Florida. According to a 2005 study by NASA, each job at KSC resulted in 2.5 indirect jobs elsewhere in the community.

The City of Titusville is fortunate to have a diverse mix of research and development, strong defense and homeland security related businesses, and entrepreneurial enterprises. Examples include, Knight Enterprises LLC, which is a small arms and accessories manufacturer that produces weapons for the U.S. military and law enforcement. Geo Systems Inc. is another Titusville firm that designs, develops and integrates progressive new technology into unique products such as a specialized high strength “REEL” light for safety & rescue, under vehicle inspection robots, trailers for the Multi-Use Remote extension for the Department of Homeland Defense/Border Patrol and the U.S. Army. The Technological Research and Development Authority (TRDA) provides the cost-effective transfer of cutting edge technologies to schools and small businesses throughout the State of Florida through strategic alliances with NASA, the federal government, the aerospace industry and state partners - including the Department of Education, Enterprise Florida and the Department of Community Affairs.

Titusville is the home of Spaceport Commerce Park, Riverfront Center and the Space Coast Regional Airport & Industrial Park. These industrial centers provide more than 2,000 acres of prime industrial property with exceptional access to Interstate 95, SR 407, the Beachline (SR 528), SR 405, the Florida East Coast Railroad, and is in close proximity to Cape Canaveral. All of these transportation facilities make Titusville ideal for manufacturing, research and development. Prospective manufacturers can take advantage of Foreign Trade Zone #136 in the Spaceport Commerce Park and the Space Coast Regional Airport properties thus reducing expenses in importing, assembling, manufacturing, testing, repackaging, distributing and exporting within this zone.

The Florida/NASA Business Incubation Center (FNBIC) accelerates the formulation, growth and success of small, technology-based companies in Brevard County. The 3,000-square-foot facility is housed on the Titusville campus of Brevard Community College. By offering affordable space and shared office equipment and services, the Incubator makes it possible to reduce many of the costs associated with establishing and operating a small business.

Five minutes east of Titusville, on the Kennedy Space Center, is the Space Life Sciences Laboratory, which serves as the gateway to the International Space Station for science experiments and as a world-class home to ground based investigations in biological science. This facility will anchor Exploration Park, a 400-acre Space Technology and Commerce Park.