ACE aims to clone NASA Research Park success

LOVELAND – A “remarkable” experiment that’s never before been attempted.

That is how NASA officials and others have described what they’re hoping to pull off in redeveloping the Aerospace and Clean Energy technology park on the former Agilent Technologies campus.

Success will mean taking technologies developed by rocket scientists working for NASA and finding companies willing and able to convert them into commercial applications.

But it’s not as if NASA and private industry are strangers.

In fact, if all goes as planned, the ACE park could look somewhat like the NASA Research Park in northern California, which was established in 2002 and is…