The CAER carries out its mission through three major strategies:
- Innovation – a new or improved process, product or method that creates value
- Collaboration – working together towards the common goal of creating value
- Education – developing the knowledge, skills and abilities needed to create value
- Strategy: Innovation
- Research Agreements with Universities
- R&D Funding
- Project Management
- Strategy: Collaboration
- Supporting the Lynchburg Regional Business Alliance and regional TBED activities
- Develop and support regional technology clusters
- Collaborative planning, project and program management
- Strategy: Education
- Commonwealth Graduate Engineering Program – UVA, VT, GMU, ODU, VCU, VSU
- Local science & engineering programs
- Research experiences for students
- Professional Development for scientists and engineers