Current Members


Founded in 1985 and known worldwide for AMIBIOS®, the mission of AMI is to power, manage and secure the world’s connected digital infrastructure by providing best-in-class UEFI and remote management firmware, security solutions, development tools and utilities to top-tier manufacturers of desktop, server, mobile and embedded/IoT systems.

Statnett is the system operator of the Norwegian power system, owning and operating the transmission grid and maintaining the balance between consumption and production, providing you with a reliable power supply at all times.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) was founded in 1901 and is now part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. NIST is one of the nation’s oldest physical science laboratories. Congress established the agency to remove a major challenge to U.S. industrial competitiveness at the time—a second-rate measurement infrastructure that lagged behind the capabilities of the United Kingdom, Germany, and other economic rivals.

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory is part of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC), which has the mission to provide innovative research, development and engineering to produce capabilities that provide decisive overmatch to the Army against the complexities of the current and future operating environments in support of the joint warfighter and the nation. CCDC is a major subordinate command of the U.S. Army Futures Command.

NewPush is a global company with customers spread across 3 continents. Leveraging purpose-built infrastructure, NewPush delivers government organizations, public companies, and medium size businesses a comprehensive suite of solutions. Our engineers solve demanding customer’s requirements that are beyond the scope of traditional providers. As an IBM Business Partner, we afford our customers smart technologies that enable faster time to market, increased performance, better value, and reliability.

Engagement Model

We are flexible by design and want to maximize our impact in any engagement. We can help

  • Market your organization
    • CCAA Can be leveraged in your standard brochures
    • Develop and foster new industry-to-industry and industry-to-government relationships and opportunities through interaction with industry, academic, and government key players.
  • During sales cycles
    • Leverage the CCAA / NSF brand
    • Leverage our team’s experience and showcase capabilities
  • Delivering services
    • Create, direct and leverage specific research efforts
    • Gain advanced knowledge of research results as they emerge
    • Have access to students and researchers who may fulfill critical resource needs
    • Access any intellectual property developed by CCAA use-license fee-free

Membership Information

Eligibility

Any company (which includes industrial firms, federal government agencies, and non-profit organizations) may become a member of the center, consistent with applicable state and federal laws and statutes.All members sign a common membership agreement and NSF has provisions where they will manage the process of purchasing memberships for FFRDC and federal agencies through Interagency Agreements.

Special Opportunities for Small Businesses

NSF has provided its Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) grantees opportunity and funding support to join an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC). The supplements are intended to accelerate the innovation process by partnering industry-relevant academic research with commercialization focused small business research.

Membership Benefits

Members have many benefits derived through participation in CCAA, including:

  • Create, direct and leverage specific pre-competitive research efforts required in this field that can benefit your organization.
  • Have your organization represented on an Industry Advisory Board (IAB) to influence, guide and review the research performed within the Center through annual member advisory board meetings conducted twice a year.
  • Gain advance knowledge of research results as they emerge.
  • Opportunities for further collaboration and networking with other organizations within CCAA for the pursuit of joint research.
  • Have access to students and researchers who could meet recruitment requirements and fulfill critical resource needs within a member’s organization.
  • Participate in a historically successful NSF approach that advances important capabilities needed by critical elements of societies.

How to Become a Member

Membership for eligible organizations requires the execution of the CCAA Membership Agreement and payment of the applicable membership fee. Please contact us if you need additional information about membership.