  We define and study the totally nonnegative part of the Chow quotient of the
Grassmannian, or more simply the nonnegative configuration space. This space
has a natural stratification by positive Chow cells, and we show that
nonnegative configuration space is homeomorphic to a polytope as a stratified
space. We establish bijections between positive Chow cells and the following
sets: (a) regular subdivisions of the hypersimplex into positroid polytopes,
(b) the set of cones in the positive tropical Grassmannian, and (c) the set of
cones in the positive Dressian. Our work is motivated by connections to super
Yang-Mills scattering amplitudes, which will be discussed in a sequel.

Combinatorics;High Energy Physics - Theory;Algebraic Geometry