This site is a member of Science and Technology in the Making (STIM), a web-based research project for the recent history of science and technology funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and is affiliated with the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. For the first year of its existence the Blackout site was hosted by the Scholarly Technology Group (STG) at Brown University.

The Blackout team members include Jim Sparrow, director, John Summers, assistant editor, field researcher and contributor; TuVinh Vuong, co-webmaster and digital assistant; and John Cheng, design and concept guru.