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Mcity is an autonomous vehicle research center located on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It serves as a unique urban test facility that facilitates collaboration among industry, government, and academia to enhance transportation safety, sustainability, and accessibility. Mcity combines early-stage research with real-world testing and on-road vehicle deployments to validate and advance new technologies in the mobility sector. The center is staffed by renowned researchers and aims to contribute to the development of safer and more efficient transportation systems for the benefit of society.

The Emerald Tutu specializes in developing floating landscape infrastructure aimed at mitigating the effects of climate change. The company's innovative approach involves creating an interlinking array of fibrous floating mats infused with biomatter, which serve to absorb and transfer energy throughout the network. This technology is designed to reduce coastal flooding and protect waterfront areas from extreme weather events, ultimately enhancing the habitability of these regions. By providing waterfront amenities that address ecological challenges, The Emerald Tutu contributes to sustainable solutions for climate resilience.

LeapFrog Design focuses on developing sustainable water treatment and reuse systems for residential use, enhancing water conservation and improving living conditions. Their innovative approach utilizes plants and natural materials to treat and recycle household greywater, promoting water security and flexibility for homeowners. By pioneering regenerative infrastructure, LeapFrog Design aims to create resilient communities while helping individuals save money and reduce environmental pollution.

SkyGig is a communication technology company based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, that specializes in millimeter-wave wireless communications. The company focuses on improving wireless communication through its innovative beamforming technology, which aims to make wireless broadband communication scalable and cost-effective. By providing seamless broadband connectivity, SkyGig enables both businesses and individuals to access high-speed data transmission capabilities, overcoming the limitations of traditional infrastructure.

INFRATICO is an infrastructure analytics company. They provide structural health monitoring tasks such as the detection of bottom-up cracks to alert stakeholders before such damage becomes visible on the surface.

Natrx specializes in providing innovative, nature-based solutions for coastal resilience and infrastructure protection. By leveraging advanced technology and geospatial software, the company aims to create sustainable and high-performance solutions that integrate nature directly into infrastructure. Natrx's approach addresses the limitations of traditional methods, which are often costly and ecologically harmful. The company's offerings are tailored to meet the performance needs of large-scale public and private asset owners, enabling builders, architects, and ecologists to enhance environmental outcomes while developing infrastructure. Natrx's commitment to marrying ecological considerations with infrastructure development seeks to set a new standard for sustainability and economic impact.

Mazdak International is a capsule pipeline technology company that specializes in deep dredging.

Atlas AI develops business analytics software aimed at monitoring economic development drivers in emerging markets. The company's technology generates reliable socioeconomic estimates, covering aspects such as land under cultivation, staple crop productivity, household asset wealth and consumption, as well as access to essential infrastructure like power and transportation. By leveraging advanced machine learning techniques and deep expertise in emerging markets, Atlas AI enables organizations to effectively allocate resources and monitor high-stakes investments and development programs, including infrastructure initiatives and market expansion efforts. The company is currently focusing on constructing these models for Sub-Saharan Africa, with the intention of scaling its solutions globally.

Sustainable Road Engineering provides services including roads, parking lots, and driveways. They are actively involved in pavement management, construction, engineering, and providing training to professionals in these fields. They offer engineering and consultation services, pavement evaluation, construction inspection, material testing.

Cloud services have become ubiquitous to all major 21st century economic activities. However, cloud services and technologies can be significantly more powerful than they are now. A persistent barrier to further advancement has been the lack of a large-scale and open cloud research platforms. With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Chameleon project will provide such a large-scale platform to the open research community allowing them explore transformative concepts in deeply programmable cloud services, design, and core technologies. Chameleon will allow users to explore problems ranging from the creation of Software as a Service to kernel support for virtualization. This broad range of supported research includes many other areas such as developing Platforms as a Service, creating new and optimizing existing Infrastructure as a Service components, investigating software-defined networking, and optimizing virtualization technologies. The Chameleon testbed, will be deployed at the University of Chicago and the Texas Advanced Computing Center and will consist of 650 multi-core cloud nodes, 5PB of total disk space, and leverage 100 Gbps connection between the sites. While a large part of the testbed will consist of homogenous hardware to support large-scale experiments, a portion of it will support heterogeneous units allowing experimentation with high-memory, large-disk, low-power, GPU, and co-processor units. The project will also leverage existing FutureGrid hardware at the University of Chicago and the Texas Advanced Computing Center in its first year to provide a transition period for the existing FutureGrid community of experimental users. To support the broad range of experiments experiments described above, the project will support a graduated configuration system allowing full user configurability of the software stack, from provisioning of bare metal and network interconnects to delivery of fully functioning cloud environments. A special feature of Chameleon is that it provides for an exceptionally close integration of clouds and networks, which substantially enhances the capabilities of both. In addition, to facilitate experiments, Chameleon will support a set of services designed to meet researchers needs, including support for experimental management, reproducibility, and repositories of trace and workload data of production cloud workloads. The project is led by the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and partners from the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin, the International Center for Advanced Internet Research at Northwestern University, the Ohio State University, and University of Texas at San Antonio, comprising a highly qualified and experienced team. The team includes members from the NSF supported FutureGrid project and from the GENI community, both forerunners of the NSFCloud solicitation under which this project is funded. Chameleon will also form a set of partnerships with commercial and academic clouds, such as Rackspace, CERN and Open Science Data Cloud (OSDC), and will partner with other testbeds, notably GENI and INRIA's Grid'5000 testbed.

The Emerald Tutu specializes in developing floating landscape infrastructure aimed at mitigating the effects of climate change. The company's innovative approach involves creating an interlinking array of fibrous floating mats infused with biomatter, which serve to absorb and transfer energy throughout the network. This technology is designed to reduce coastal flooding and protect waterfront areas from extreme weather events, ultimately enhancing the habitability of these regions. By providing waterfront amenities that address ecological challenges, The Emerald Tutu contributes to sustainable solutions for climate resilience.

SkyGig is a communication technology company based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, that specializes in millimeter-wave wireless communications. The company focuses on improving wireless communication through its innovative beamforming technology, which aims to make wireless broadband communication scalable and cost-effective. By providing seamless broadband connectivity, SkyGig enables both businesses and individuals to access high-speed data transmission capabilities, overcoming the limitations of traditional infrastructure.

Pearl Street Technologies specializes in the development of the SUGAR platform, a comprehensive tool for power grid planning that enhances the reliability and sustainability of electrical networks. Inspired by advanced computer chip design methodologies, SUGAR offers modeling, optimization, and design capabilities tailored for grid operators, utilities, and project developers. The platform automates the creation of base case planning models and effectively addresses complex contingencies and extreme grid conditions. By streamlining project workflows and reducing network upgrade costs, SUGAR facilitates the seamless integration of renewable energy sources, thereby supporting stakeholders in their efforts to build a more resilient power infrastructure.

Atlas AI develops business analytics software aimed at monitoring economic development drivers in emerging markets. The company's technology generates reliable socioeconomic estimates, covering aspects such as land under cultivation, staple crop productivity, household asset wealth and consumption, as well as access to essential infrastructure like power and transportation. By leveraging advanced machine learning techniques and deep expertise in emerging markets, Atlas AI enables organizations to effectively allocate resources and monitor high-stakes investments and development programs, including infrastructure initiatives and market expansion efforts. The company is currently focusing on constructing these models for Sub-Saharan Africa, with the intention of scaling its solutions globally.

SkyGig is a communication technology company based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, that specializes in millimeter-wave wireless communications. The company focuses on improving wireless communication through its innovative beamforming technology, which aims to make wireless broadband communication scalable and cost-effective. By providing seamless broadband connectivity, SkyGig enables both businesses and individuals to access high-speed data transmission capabilities, overcoming the limitations of traditional infrastructure.

Pearl Street Technologies specializes in the development of the SUGAR platform, a comprehensive tool for power grid planning that enhances the reliability and sustainability of electrical networks. Inspired by advanced computer chip design methodologies, SUGAR offers modeling, optimization, and design capabilities tailored for grid operators, utilities, and project developers. The platform automates the creation of base case planning models and effectively addresses complex contingencies and extreme grid conditions. By streamlining project workflows and reducing network upgrade costs, SUGAR facilitates the seamless integration of renewable energy sources, thereby supporting stakeholders in their efforts to build a more resilient power infrastructure.

Aware Vehicles, founded in 2017 and based in Kansas City, Missouri, specializes in the development of autonomous drones that capture and analyze spectral aerial images. These drones leverage advanced imaging technology and artificial intelligence to serve various sectors, including precision agriculture, defense, disaster response, logistics, and infrastructure. By providing precise asset inspections and enhancing emergency response and communication capabilities, Aware Vehicles aims to meet the diverse needs of its clients through innovative aerial solutions.

Smart Walls produces deployable walls for flood protection of critical infrastructure such as hospitals, utilities, and airports. They fit within the existing landscape and do not obstruct the existing views or significantly impede the use of the surrounding area. They provide structural walls with telescopic technology to reduce excavation needs.

AutoModality is dedicated to creating autonomous mobile systems that sense, explore, and analyze the world around us. They provide technology and services for automated close-up inspection using drones and are currently focused on the Agriculture and Infrastructure inspection markets. AutoModality is also the home of Team Autero, the winner of the 2016 DJI SDK Challenge.

The National Center for Super computing Applications provides computers and expert support that help scientists and engineers.

Intentionet Rapid deployment and maintenance without fear of outages, breaches, or compliance violations.

Mazdak International is a capsule pipeline technology company that specializes in deep dredging.

Integrated Construction Enterprises provides construction services in the public and private sectors. They offer a complete range of construction-related services including such as design-build with in-house design services construction management, historic preservation and renovation, general construction in all aspects of new and renovation work, and energy conservation and retro-commissioning.

C-Crete Technologies is an invention and technology development company building and commercializing technological paradigm shifts of the future in energy, environment, materials, construction, industrial and infrastructure. C-Crete works at the intersection of materials science, nanotechnology, multiscale computations, predictive analytics, software, hardware and manufacturing to drive next generation of innovations for a low carbon and energy efficient world.

Intentionet Rapid deployment and maintenance without fear of outages, breaches, or compliance violations.

The Center for Open Science (COS) is a non-profit organization building free tools for open scientific practices, including its flagship infrastructure Open Science Framework (osf.io).

Rao Research and Consulting is a research, development, and technology company that develops leading-edge solutions for the highway infrastructure industry. They were meticulously researched and executed, rigorously tested and validated against facts and data, making them impenetrable, and practice.

GridBridge, Inc. specializes in designing, developing, and deploying advanced power delivery solutions aimed at modernizing power systems. Founded in 2012 and based in Raleigh, North Carolina, the company focuses on enhancing distribution efficiency and reliability through its innovative Energy Router technology. This platform integrates renewable energy generation and energy storage, significantly optimizing electric distribution flow. GridBridge serves both consumers and electric utilities, providing versatile and dependable solutions to support the evolution of power systems. As of 2017, it operates as a subsidiary of Electric Research and Manufacturing Cooperative, Inc.

SulfCrete™ is an innovative, New York-based company that utilizes recycled materials from the oil and coal industries to produce its keystone product: a high-strength, ultra-impermeable, corrosion-resistant, low-CO2 emission, waterless, sulfur-polymer concrete. We have transformed a previously unworkable product developed in the 1980s by the U.S. Bureau of Mines into one with both commercial viability and enormous market potential. For the past 30 years, years, sulfur-polymer concrete has required the use of a high-cost additive that has made it commercially infeasible. SulfCrete's patented innovations, emerging out of the Environmental and Climate Sciences Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory, have changed this-- making use of alternative, organic additives, over 100x less expensive, to manufacture an all-around superior product.

C-Crete Technologies is an invention and technology development company building and commercializing technological paradigm shifts of the future in energy, environment, materials, construction, industrial and infrastructure. C-Crete works at the intersection of materials science, nanotechnology, multiscale computations, predictive analytics, software, hardware and manufacturing to drive next generation of innovations for a low carbon and energy efficient world.

Cloudflare, Inc. is a San Francisco-based software company that specializes in web performance and security services for businesses globally. It operates a cloud platform that integrates various network services, including security solutions such as Cloud Firewall, Bot Management, and Distributed Denial of Service protection. The company enhances website performance through its Content Delivery Network (CDN) and intelligent routing, while also providing optimization tools for content and images. Furthermore, Cloudflare offers reliability solutions like Load Balancing and DNS services, alongside security features aimed at protecting internal resources through Zero Trust Security and Secure Web Gateway. Its consumer offerings include a DNS resolver and a virtual private network (VPN) designed to secure mobile traffic. Cloudflare serves diverse industries, including technology, healthcare, financial services, and government, and was founded in 2009.

CitiLogics, LLC specializes in developing models and analytics to assist clients in managing urban water infrastructure investments. The company offers a range of services, including real-time model and SCADA integration, hydraulic and water quality model calibration, and distribution system water quality management. Additionally, CitiLogics provides tools for online water quality monitoring, GIS analysis, and custom software solutions. One of its key products, Polaris, combines a SCADA HMI emulator with real-time network model forecasts and a scenario manager, enabling users to explore alternative operational strategies. Founded in 2009 and based in Cincinnati, Ohio, CitiLogics serves clients within the water and wastewater industry, applying research-level engineering expertise to address practical challenges in water distribution and management.

GridBridge, Inc. specializes in designing, developing, and deploying advanced power delivery solutions aimed at modernizing power systems. Founded in 2012 and based in Raleigh, North Carolina, the company focuses on enhancing distribution efficiency and reliability through its innovative Energy Router technology. This platform integrates renewable energy generation and energy storage, significantly optimizing electric distribution flow. GridBridge serves both consumers and electric utilities, providing versatile and dependable solutions to support the evolution of power systems. As of 2017, it operates as a subsidiary of Electric Research and Manufacturing Cooperative, Inc.

Critica Infrastructure is an infrastructure company that provides performance-critical infrastructure solutions. They offer services that include composite repair, permanent pipeline repair, pipeline integrity, and onshore and offshore pipeline repair.