The BuyQuietRoadmap incorporates elements of several successful best-practices programs, based on a survey of industrial, government, and military organizations in the United States. The BuyQuietRoadmap also includes the contributions of manufacturers involved in the low-noise equipment market.
The contributions of the following organizations are gratefully acknowledged:
- 3M
- Baltimore Aircoil
- Becton Dickinson
- Carrier
- Caterpillar
- Cisco
- Colgate Palmolive
- CPWR Center for Construction Research and Training
- ExxonMobil
- General Motors
- Hewlett Packard
- Honeywell
- Ingersoll Rand
- NIOSH
- Toro
- Trane
- United Technologies
- U.S. Air Force
- U.S. National Park Service
- U.S. Navy
The BuyQuietRoadmap, including the Long-Term Economic Benefit of Noise Control model, was developed for NASA by David Nelson of Nelson Acoustics 
through a subcontract with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). Technical editing and Web site design were provided by Amy Gelfand of Gelfand Design .