The Center for Innovation, Test & Evaluation
Pegasus Global Holdings has proposed to locate a privately financed owned & operated Center for Innovation, Test & Evaluation (The Center) in the State of New Mexico. With the support of New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez, Pegasus has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the state's Department of Economic Development.
Goal
The Center will serve as an open operating test, evaluation and commercialization facility for next-generation innovations and technologies. It will provide a proving ground for technologies arising from the federal laboratories, universities, not-for-profit technology centers, federal departments and agencies, and the private sector. The facility will be designed to allow new technologies to integrate into the nation's urban, suburban and rural "legacy infrastructure," and provide detailed measurable results on their impact to the economy and its many sectors, e.g., energy, tras*portation, telecommunications, security, and agriculture.
The Center will consist of a fully integrated physical facility modeled on a medium-sized American city, including its urban, suburban, and rural areas, built with standard roads, buildings, power, water, telecommunications and operating systems. Representative of today's modern cities, The Center will allow clients to test the benefits and costs of their proposed next-generation innovations and technologies, hardware and software.
Development, construction, and operating costs of The Center will be funded by the private sector. The Center will create 350 new direct jobs and it is expected to create more than 3,500 new indirect jobs through construction of the facility, supporting industry, and contractors. Due to the large impact that this facility will have on the economy of the State of New Mexico, Pegasus Global has built strong relationships with local and state government representatives, state universities, and federal laboratory leadership to help develop efforts to create a strong sustainable workforce.
Benchmark Test & Evaluation Facilities
Green Energy
One of the fastest growing segments in energy production is focused on green technologies, but challenges still exist in the integration of these technologies into existing out dated infrastructure. The Center will provide unique opportunities to drill down into the cost of introducing solar, wind, and Smart Grid technologies in a real world setting to help determine the next steps to success.
Intelligent tras*portation Systems
The Center will be home to a tras*portation highway/road network consisting of both high-speed, urban canyon, suburban and rural roads permitting testing and demonstration of new Intelligent tras*portation System technologies, which are advancing rapidly in Europe and Asia. The Center will provide a highway infrastructure that will allow clients to test and evaluate unmanned vehicle technologies, traffic management systems, and vehicle-based applications without endangering other drivers.
Homeland Security
Homeland security is a key component of the plan for The Center, which will include a secure testing area for first responder technology with the benefit of proximity to the civil and commercial infrastructure.
Next Generation Wireless Infrastructure
A next-generation wireless infrastructure - terrestrial and satellite - is planned to serve The Center, permitting the development, installation, testing and commercialization of high speed broadband technologies across all sectors of our economy, e.g. energy, tras*portation and security, as well as extension of such services to underserved communities.
