NIST's Boulder campus — world headquarters for precision measurement science. Houses quantum information, quantum networking, ion trap, and superconducting electronics programs. Advanced vibration-controlled and temperature-stabilized lab environments. Core partner of JILA. Sets international measurement standards for time (atomic clocks), electromagnetics, and materials metrology. Industry collaboration through CRADAs.
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DOE Office of Science nanoscience user facility operated jointly by Sandia and LANL. 96,000 sq ft CORE facility at Sandia S&T Park + Gateway facility in Los Alamos. MBE, PVD/CVD, pulsed laser deposition, biomaterial synthesis, ultrafast spectroscopy (LUMOS: far-IR to soft X-ray), cleanroom for device integration. FREE for approved non-proprietary research proposals. Focus: microelectronics, clean energy, quantum info, biosecurity, AI/ML.
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Labs for high-efficiency solar cell development: silicon, perovskite, quantum dot, and III-V multijunction cells. Ultrafast laser spectroscopy (10⁻¹⁴ s carrier kinetics), transmission electron microscopy (sub-nanometer atomic column resolution), semiconductor defect characterization, and cell/module performance measurement. Contacts, window layers, encapsulants, and packaging R&D.
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135,000+ sq ft across 8 acres (50,000 sq ft expansion planned). R&D laboratory, satellite operations center, auditorium, gigabit fiber backbone. 30+ tenants, 700+ employees, includes AFRL, U.S. Space Command, NORAD/NORTHCOM satellite offices. Hub connecting defense primes, startups, and government for aerospace/space innovation. Locations also in Maryland and Utah.
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Ten private BSL1/BSL2 wet lab spaces (400–500 sq ft each) with foot pedal sinks, lab benches, ducted fume hoods. Shared equipment: centrifuges, autoclaves, glasswashers, -86°C freezers. Incubation program focused on investor-readiness, advisor networks, corporate partners, and revenue acceleration. Locations in Fort Collins, Boulder, Denver, and Castle Rock. Serves bioscience, medtech, cleantech, energy, and advanced materials startups.
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Workforce engine behind Elevate Quantum's EDA Tech Hub strategy, uniting employers, educators, training providers, and community leaders across Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming. Coordinates quantum workforce development programs from community college certificates (CU Denver Quantum IT Certificate) through PhD pipelines. Connects to Front Range CC optics/laser tech and Red Rocks CC programs.
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70+ years in aerospace with 150+ staff. FAA-approved UAS test site at Las Cruces Airport: 15,000 sq ft hangar, CoA for UAS flights in 15,000+ sq mi of controlled airspace up to 18,000 ft MSL. Expertise in electronic warfare, countermeasures, cybersecurity, telemetry, missile systems, and scientific ballooning (small to large balloons). Custom telemetry and antenna systems designed/built in-house.
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Interdisciplinary energy research center at UNM School of Engineering. Simulation and experimentation on production energy infrastructure, control algorithm optimization, and human-energy interaction. Current projects: solid particle receiver systems for concentrated solar power, distribution microgrids, and smart grid technologies. Custom instrument design/build capability (sky imaging for solar forecasting, small-scale ice storage).
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International user program for research in the highest non-destructive pulsed magnetic fields in the world. Supports fundamental materials science, condensed matter physics, and quantum materials research. Operated by NHMFL in partnership with LANL.
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CU Boulder's flagship engineering makerspace for student and faculty prototyping. 3D printers (FDM, SLA, SLS), laser cutters, CNC mills, electronics workstations, soldering stations, woodworking tools, and hand tools. Supports capstone projects, competition teams, and startup prototyping. Part of CU Engineering's innovation infrastructure alongside the ATLAS Institute.
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Graduate certificate program preparing students to enter the quantum workforce with collaborative tools to excel in the quantum technology sector. Covers quantum computing fundamentals, quantum information science, and practical applications. Designed for working professionals and students seeking to enter Colorado's growing quantum industry.
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Field validation sites, dynamometers, structural testing, composites manufacturing, and integrated energy systems facilities. Industry partners can develop, test, and evaluate wind technologies through CRADAs, Test & Evaluation partnerships, and technology licensing. Access to cutting-edge research facilities via partnership agreements.
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Joint institute of CU Boulder and NIST — world leader in atomic clocks (optical Sr lattice clock, most precise ever), ultrafast frequency combs (first EUV frequency comb), ultracold atomic/molecular physics, and precision measurement. Advanced vibration-controlled, temperature-stabilized laser labs. Research spans quantum metrology, many-body physics, ultrafast science. Multiple Nobel laureates (Cornell, Wieman, Hall).
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Cleantech startup incubation program at NREL connecting innovators with lab researchers and facilities. West Gate program members develop technology using NREL labs while getting go-to-market support through Beck Venture Center membership. Access to NREL's world-class energy systems, solar, wind, hydrogen, and materials characterization equipment via sponsored research or CRADAs.
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40 square miles of field laboratories in the mountains adjacent to NM Tech campus, with 30+ test sites, gun ranges, and storage areas. Testing capabilities for explosives safety (fire, drop, bullet impact, sympathetic detonation), energetic materials characterization, and detonation physics. Also operates the Playas Training and Research Center for homeland security exercises.
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Research center at Colorado School of Mines focused on solid oxide fuel cells and electrolyzers. Capabilities include cell and stack fabrication, electrochemical performance testing, materials characterization (XRD, SEM, EDS), and high-temperature thermal analysis. Industry collaboration available for hydrogen and fuel cell technology development.
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Largest open-air land test range in DOD. Environmental testing chambers, extensive instrumentation, M&S facilities. Tests conventional munitions, unmanned systems, directed energy (largest US pulsed CO₂ laser), space systems, and sensors. NASA WSTF on-site: rocket propulsion, hypervelocity impact, propellant testing, oxygen systems, and composite pressure vessels. Available to military, government, industry, and foreign partners on a reimbursable basis.
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340-acre master-planned technology park adjacent to Sandia National Labs and Kirtland AFB. 2,300+ employees across tenant companies. Spaces from 500 to 36,000 sq ft. Tenants include CINT, Sandia's Computer Science Research Institute, and companies engaged in joint R&D, technology commercialization, and supply chain development with Sandia. Proximity enables equipment sharing and collaborative projects.
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Research-grade materials processing and characterization labs. Equipment for materials synthesis, mechanical testing, microstructural analysis, and thermal processing. Complements NM Tech's geophysics (Wood's Tunnel Seismic Observatory), atmospheric research (Langmuir Lab), and petroleum research capabilities. Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources on campus.
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Class 1000 cleanroom (300 sq ft Class 100 bay) with nearly two dozen labs: high-power lasers, SEM, MBE, MOCVD, e-beam lithography, interferometric nanolithography (Ar-ion 364/352nm, YAG harmonics, doubled Ar-ion 257nm), confocal microscopy with submicron resolution, and cryogenic magneto-optical characterization. Complete manufacturing flow from crystal growth to device testing. Focus: photonics, semiconductor LEDs/lasers, quantum information science.
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Nearly 100 active CRADAs enabling joint R&D between LANL and industry/academia. Partners share resources, leverage technical expertise, and generate IP for commercialization. Fastest-growing sector is direct industry collaboration across quantum, energy, materials, bioscience, and advanced manufacturing. Also offers technology licensing and the TRGR Technology Readiness Initiative for NM businesses.
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One of the world's most powerful linear accelerators providing intense neutron sources for civilian and national security research. Enables neutron scattering, neutron radiography, and materials irradiation studies. DOE user facility with international user program.
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400,000 sq ft of cleanrooms/labs — the only US fab co-locating silicon CMOS, Si photonics, and III-V compound semiconductor processing. SiFab: 34,500 sq ft cleanroom (12,000 sq ft Class 1) for wafers up to 6". MicroFab: 16,600 sq ft Class 10 with e-beam and stepper lithography. Deep expertise in photonics, MEMS, PV, focal plane arrays, metamaterials, and quantum devices.
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World's first purpose-built commercial spaceport. 18,000 acres adjacent to White Sands. FAA-licensed vertical and horizontal launch. 12,000 ft × 200 ft runway, 6,000 sq mi restricted airspace, 340 days of sunshine. Vertical launch area with multiple pads, modular payload processing buildings, and launch control. Tenants: Virgin Galactic (anchor), SpinLaunch, UP Aerospace, AeroVironment/HAPSMobile. Leasable facilities for new launch providers and UAV operators.
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Non-profit formed by UNM, NMSU, and NM Tech to facilitate university-LANL-industry research. Moving to 86,000 sq ft facility at Los Alamos Research Park. Research areas: advanced computing, neuromorphic computing, biofuels, biomedical/health, materials science, plant biology, space science. Industry partners include UbiQD, Specifica, Mercury Bio. Runs K-12 Supercomputing Challenge.
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DOE's only national user facility focused on utility-scale clean energy grid integration. Labs for fuel cell/electrolyzer development, thermal energy storage, hydrogen sensor technologies, concentrating solar power. Integrated hydrogen distribution system with on-site electrolysis producing ultrahigh-purity H₂. External user access program available via CRADAs and Test & Evaluation partnerships.
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37,000 sq ft makerspace at Colorado School of Mines. 29 Bambu Lab X1C 3D printers (PLA/PETG/TPU up to 600 mm/s), x7 carbon fiber printers, f70 high-temp printer with dissolvable supports, metal shop, wood shop, CNC machines, composites & paint shop, electronics shop, laser cutters, vinyl plotters. ProtoFund seed grants available. Connected to Beck Venture Center for commercialization.
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70-acre Mines-owned quantum technology park. 10,000 sq ft fabrication cleanroom for prototyping and low-volume manufacturing (solid state and AMO modalities), 17,000 sq ft open-access quantum labs, plus expansion space for startup co-location. Backed by $40.5M EDA Tech Hub federal funding, $74M state matching, and $1B private capital. Opening in phases through 2026.
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Two Class 1000 (ISO 6) cleanrooms with photolithography (features down to 2 µm on substrates up to 3"), e-beam evaporator, sputtering, plasma etching, furnaces. Electron Microscopy Lab: SEM, TEM/STEM, EDS, EBSD, FIB, XRD, AFM, Raman confocal microscopy. Characterization Lab: ESR, FTIR, photoluminescence, optical spectroscopy. Open to Mines faculty/students and external industry partners.
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Quantum research lab being built inside the historic Edgar Experimental Mine, providing ultra-low-vibration underground environment ideal for sensitive quantum experiments. A collaboration between Colorado School of Mines and Elevate Quantum as part of the broader quantum infrastructure build-out in Colorado's Front Range.
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Shared core facilities serving CU researchers, institutions, and biotech industry. Next-Gen Sequencing Facility (Illumina NextSeq 500, 2× MiSeq), Advanced Light Microscopy Core (widefield to super-resolution/localization), and Proteomics/Mass Spectrometry Core. Open to external academic, national lab, and industry users.
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Comprehensive biomedical research core facilities: mass spectrometry, X-ray crystallography, electron microscopy, 900 MHz NMR spectrometer, flow cytometry, DNA array, peptide/protein chemistry. Drug Discovery and Development Shared Resource offers high-throughput discovery, medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutics, and in vivo pharmacology. Open to academia and biotech/pharma industry.
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48-acre life sciences campus adjacent to CU Anschutz with 427,000 sq ft across 5 bioscience buildings. Bioscience 1 (startups), 2–3 (growth/commercial), and Bioscience 5 (90,000 sq ft cell & gene therapy manufacturing with cleanrooms, air handling, high-power). Wet and dry labs, flexible manufacturing, assembly, and distribution space. Only Rocky Mountain West campus offering specialized life sciences lab space at all company stages.
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CU Boulder center designing and building life science research hardware for ISS microgravity experiments. Partners with pharmaceutical/biotech companies and NASA-funded researchers for unique research impossible on Earth. Part of the 180,000 sq ft Smead Aerospace building on East Campus. $37.3M in annual departmental research awards.
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Largest freestanding university-based energy research and entrepreneurship facility in the US — 100,000 sq ft LEED Platinum building. Labs for grid integration of renewables, microgrid component testing, photovoltaic device testing, large-scale engine testing, hydrogen/electric vehicle testing, indoor air quality research. Home of the CSU Energy Institute and cleantech entrepreneurship hub.
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Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics — four ISO-7 cleanrooms (incl. 2,000 sq ft class 10000 for full spacecraft builds), machine shop with 0.0005" tolerances, four thermovac chambers, four high-vacuum bake-out chambers, NASA-qualified electrical/polymerics assembly lab, and UV-to-IR calibration labs. Facilities available to external customers at hourly rates.
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Colorado Shared Instrumentation in Nanofabrication and Characterization — 3,400 sq ft ISO 5/6 cleanroom, 100kV e-beam lithography (Raith 5150plus), FE-SEM (Hitachi SU8600 with 250,000× magnification), AFM, STM, FIB-SEM, XRD, XPS, sputter deposition, ICP-RIE, and wet processing. Serves 600+ users and 200 PIs. Open to external academics, national labs, and industry.
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19,500 sq ft bioscience incubator with 8 wet labs. Provides affordable lab space for NM biotech startups.
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Ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals for optical communications. OEDIT Advanced Industries grant recipient.
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Autonomous ride-hailing service launching in Denver metro area in 2026. Alphabet subsidiary.
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$20M NSF-funded open-access national facility for quantum device fabrication, characterization, and packaging — enabling quantum computers, networks, atomic clocks, and advanced sensors. Being built as an annex to the SEEL building on CU Boulder's East Campus. Target completion ~2029. Open to academic, government, and industrial users.
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340-acre technology park adjacent to Sandia National Labs with 42+ resident companies in defense, energy, and advanced technology.
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World's fastest burst-mode X-ray camera. Sandia spinoff. Advanced imaging for directed energy and scientific applications.
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Data science and visualization for complex defense and government problems. Intelligence community and DOD customers.
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Commercializing LANL Kilopower space reactor technology. Nuclear power for lunar and Mars missions.
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CU Boulder deep tech accelerator with 47+ graduates. Focuses on quantum, energy, materials, and biotech spinoffs.
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3D advanced packaging technology (Foveros) facility. Major CHIPS Act investment. Largest private employer in NM with 2,000+ employees.
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$16M DOE-funded fusion hub headquartered at CSU in partnership with SLAC, LANL, Cornell, and University of Illinois. Upgrading the ALEPH laser from 1 to 2 petawatts with increased repetition rate for inertial fusion energy research. One of the most powerful university-based lasers in the world.
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AI-driven materials science discovery platform. CU Ascent Deep Tech Accelerator graduate. Uses ML to accelerate materials development.
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In-motion wireless charging for industrial robots. OEDIT Advanced Industries grant recipient. Eliminates cable management.
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