ABOUT THE GULF BLUE
INNITIATIVE
The Gulf Blue Initiative is a coast wide collaboration designed to accelerate growth for small to midsize companies with blue tech ideas and innovations. We are a mix of scientists, engineers, educators, business managers, visionaries, and entrepreneurs. Developers and designers are supported by critical infrastructure in one of the nation’s most diversified networks of resources strategically located along Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, in conjunction with the University of Mississippi’s research and development team for innovations in uncrewed maritime systems, aquaculture, marine-friendly plastics, ocean and coast data and analytics, smart ports, and sea-space systems.
Innovation & Collaboration
The maritime infrastructure on the Mississippi Gulf Coast includes laboratories, a fabrication shop, research vessels, a 24-hour connected workspace for blue tech innovators in the Gulf & ship Island Building, and even a relocatable instrumented field site that can be used in littoral and deepwater testing, evaluating, and demonstrating uncrewed systems over a broad range of oceanographic, environmental, and acoustic channel propagation variabilities.
Partner organizations benefit from proximity to each other and the direct water access, allowing them to immediately test and refine concepts at the harbor, nearshore, and offshore test and evaluation areas, which accelerate ocean technology development. Partners include the U.S. Navy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Department of Homeland Security, along with select ocean technology companies. All of these assets work together to:
- Improve ocean mapping systems and navigation technology
- Study environmental change, geological processes, and biodiversity
- Build coastal resilience
- Better understand the ocean and coasts
- Develop products and services of economic and societal value
The Gulf Blue Navigator
365 Miles of Coast
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The Gulf Blue Navigator program leverages the Mississippi Gulf Coast’s position as an innovation gateway to support late-stage startups, shorten their development timeline, and accelerate their time to revenue. Participating companies will gain market access while engaging with university, industry, state, and federal partners and potential customers. The Gulf Blue Navigator provides access to state-of-the art research facilities, wet labs, co-working space, networking, and year-round access to warm coastal waters.
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Gulf & Ship Island Building
2605 13th Street
Gulfport, MS 39501
228-896-2824
info@GulfBlue.org