Boeing donates $50 million to Virginia Tech University’s “Innovation Campus” On May 4, the aerospace manufacturer Boeing announced it will donate $50 million to Virginia Tech to help launch the university’s new Innovation Campus located in Alexandria, Virginia, just outside Washington D.C. The donation is the largest in the university’s history, and will support scholarships and financial aid, faculty hiring, as well as programs aimed at preparing students for undergraduate course study in tech-focused and computer science programs. The website for the Innovation Campus describes the gift as a “multiyear commitment” from Boeing to “jump-start Virginia Tech’s effort to create the most diverse graduate technology campus in the United States.” Located alongside Amazon’s HQ2, the Pentagon, and industry-related academic research centers such as George Mason University’s Institute for Digital Innovation, Virginia Tech’s generously funded Innovation Campus will become a major locus for the state-military-intelligence apparatus in Northern Virginia.