The Alabama Supercomputer Authority provides supercomputing resources to academic, government, and corporate users throughout Alabama. The Center also hosts and manages the Alabama Research and Education Network (AREN), which provides Internet connectivity to government, industrial, and educational organizations within the State of Alabama.

Alion Science and Technology Corporation

IIT Research Institute employs 1,500 technical professionals nationwide to solve an extensive range of technology problems. Activities conducted in Huntsville include the IITRI metallurgy research facilities.

Draper Laboratory

Draper Laboratory is a not-for-profit research and development laboratory that employs more than 850 engineers, scientists and technicians across the country in a broad array of programs for government and commercial sponsors. Draper, headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., has played an important role in every human spaceflight program since Apollo, including the Space Shuttle and Space Station, and today is working on the Ares-1 crew launch vehicle and other elements of Project Constellation.

A research center of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Laboratory's fundamental mission is to apply science and advanced technology to critical problems of national security.

National Space Science and Technology Center

The NSSTC is a collaborative research initiative involving NASA, the State of Alabama, and six research universities working in seven distinct fields of research. NSSTC scientists develop research teams from among corporate, government, and academic experts to pursue both basic and applied research projects.

Oakridge Huntsville Partnership Office

The Oak Ridge-Huntsville Partnership Office (ORHPO) is a collaborative effort among five Department of Energy organizations focused on establishing an outreach capability through an office in Huntsville, Alabama. The ORHPO’s mission is to assist Huntsville-based government, university, and private sector organizations leverage DOE’s research and technology to meet their gaps, shortfalls, and requirements. Huntsville’s unique composition of public, private and academic communities offers an exceptional opportunity to partner with local, regional, and national entities to solve grand challenges by providing leading- edge science and world-class technology.

Riverside Research is a not-for-profit, scientific-research institution. Committed to supporting and enhancing the security of the nation, it provides high-level technical advisory and engineering support to government entities, public agencies, and private subcontractors in the national-security and intelligence sectors. The core competencies of Riverside Research span education and training, modeling and simulation, program management, and analysis of alternatives.

Universities Space Research Association

Under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences, the USRA works through member organizations to further space science and technology. Offices in Cummings Research Park include the USRA Astronomy Program in Huntsville (UAPH) and the Institute for Space Physics, Astrophysics and Education (ISPAE).

Von Braun Center for Science and Innovation (VCSI)

VCSI's vision is to become a self-sustaining, world-class R&D center that blends local resources with national assets to provide science and technology innovations and solutions to meet critical NASA and DoD mission requirements.