Our members include recognized leaders in smart manufacturing in connected environments and cybersecurity from academia, national laboratories, and industry. Collectively, they hold advanced capabilities in testing and evaluation of critical technologies and are the nation’s leaders in threat identification, cyber exploitation, and attack detection in manufacturing environments.
CESMII is the United States’ national institute on Smart Manufacturing, driving cultural and digital transformation and secure industrial technologies as national imperatives.
Cisco is the worldwide leader in IT, networking, and cybersecurity solutions, helping companies of all sizes transform how people connect, communicate, and collaborate.
Clemson is a leader in engineering education with programs targeted at the manufacturing sector. They are home to the nation’s premier graduate automotive engineering program, built to support industry partners such as BMW, JTEKT, and Kyoto.
Dynics provides high quality industrial and interactive solutions with custom-engineered products. They offer top solutions for factory automation, innovative hardware, and software solutions; enabling manufacturers to gain a competitive edge through cost-effective system designs and increased productivity.
Mason is world-renowned for its systems approach to cybersecurity, with expertise in key areas of advanced manufacturing and supply chain security, such as cyber-vulnerabilities research, 5G security, AI-based intrusion detection, autonomous system security, and secure adoption of smart technologies. Mason is an R1 research university that hosts the first-of-its-kind Bachelor’s degree and a recently launched Master’s degree in Cyber Security Engineering.
GE Research leverages its multidisciplinary core capabilities to design and develop advanced solutions to complex, challenging problems. GE produces 1/3 of the world’s electricity, equips 90% of power transmission utilities worldwide, and its software manages more than 40% of the world’s energy. They received the 2019 Manufacturing Leadership Award by National Association of Manufacturing.
Indiana University is home to the IoT Energy Efficiency Lab, designed to use big data to help manufacturing facilities reduce energy consumption — saving companies over $350M on installed projects to date. IU is also home to the Kelley School of Business Center for Excellence in Manufacturing and offers a premier multi-disciplinary program bridging law, business, and IT for cybersecurity risk management.
INL is part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s complex of national laboratories. The laboratory performs work in each of the strategic goal areas of DOE: energy, national security, science, and environment.
Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs approximately 114,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. From initial concept to life-cycle sustainment, Lockheed Martin provides cyber services and builds the platforms, tradecraft and tools proven to help customers move faster, be safer, improve quality and contain costs for critical missions.
ORNL is the Department of Energy’s largest science and energy laboratory conducting basic and applied research to deliver transformative solutions to compelling problems in energy and security. Home to the nation’s fastest and smartest supercomputer (Summit) as well as DOE’s only Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, ORNL’s mission is to deliver scientific discoveries and technical breakthroughs that will accelerate the development and deployment of solutions in clean energy and global security while creating economic opportunities for the nation.
Purdue is home to the No. 4 Information Technology program in the U.S.; leads the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) research center for protection of critical computing and communication infrastructure and host to the open-source HubZero platform.
Sandia is the nation’s premier science and engineering laboratory for national security and technology innovation, employing the best and the brightest, equipped with world-class research tools and facilities to provide opportunities to collaborate with technical experts from many different scientific disciplines.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has one of the richest and most diverse histories in the federal government. Although only in existence since 1977, the Department traces its lineage to the Manhattan Project effort to develop the atomic bomb during World War II and to the various energy-related programs that previously had been dispersed throughout various federal agencies.
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a long-time leader in the field of cybersecurity research and a major partner in the Manufacturing X Digital (MxD) institute in Chicago. Illinois is actively working to create more secure critical infrastructures through the Information Trust Institute, home to the DHS-funded Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute and the DOE-funded Cyber Resilient Energy Delivery Consortium, and deploying new tools to better protect the supply chain.
UTSA is located in the second largest U.S. cyber ecosystem and is home to the No. 1 cyber education for undergraduates and No. 2 at graduate level. UTSA’s National Security Collaboration Center is the nation’s first collaborative national security center operating across all Government-titled missions enabling “One Team, One Fight.”
UC Irvine is home to the Cybersecurity Policy and Research Institute as well as the Connected Learning Lab, which enables better research on the intersection of technology and education. Their electrical engineering team developed “beyond 5G” wireless transceiver.
Pitt hosts the Center for Advanced Manufacturing and the Manufacturing Assistance Center focused on precision manufacturing. The Center for Supply Chain Management promotes the pursuit of excellence in supply chain management by conducting research projects, outreach and educational programs.
UT Austin is the flagship institution for the University of Texas System. Home to the Applied Research Laboratory, a DoD sponsored University Affiliated Research Center (UARC), ARL directly advances national security through applications of acoustics, electromagnetics, and information sciences.
The University of Texas System (UT System) is a public university system in the U.S. state of Texas. It includes nine universities and five independent health institutions. The UT System is headquartered in Downtown Austin. It is the largest university system in Texas with 250,000+ enrolled students, 21,000+ employed faculty, 83,000+ health care professionals, researchers and support staff.
Foley & Lardner, LLP is a preeminent law firm that stands at the nexus of the energy, health care and life sciences, innovative technology, and manufacturing sectors.
We invite you to join our mission and become a part of this groundbreaking initiative. Whether you are a manufacturer looking to enhance your cybersecurity posture, a technology provider with innovative solutions, or an academic institution preparing the next generation of skilled workers, your participation is crucial to our success.
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