BNNT, LLC is a startup company based in Newport News, Virginia that has been established to manufacture BNNTs for scientific investigations, commercial product R&D, and commercial products. Key staff members include the developers who invented the new processes. Synthesis technologies licensed by BNNT, LLC, were developed jointly by NASA’s Langley Research Center, the U. S. Department of Energy’s Jefferson Lab (managed and operated by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC), and the National Institute of Aerospace, a non-profit research and graduate education institute formed by a consortium of major universities that serves as a strategic partner of NASA and the aerospace community.