Alaska Marine Safety Education Association

Alaska Marine Safety Education Association, a tax-exempt nonprofit based in Sitka, Alaska, delivers marine safety instructor training, commercial fishing occupational safety curriculum, and first aid instruction to federal agencies as a prime recipient of federal grants (98% of recent awards) and as a contractor on a single NOAA purchase order. The organization competes full-and-open; none of its federal awards carry set-aside designations.

Alaska Marine Safety Education Association's customer base spans eight federal agencies, with concentration split unevenly between contract volume and dollar value. The Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration leads by award count (10 awards, $272 thousand combined potential value), while the Department of Homeland Security's US Coast Guard anchors the dollar ranking (9 awards, $5.8 million). The Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention accounts for 7 awards across multiple sub-offices. By award count, these three customers represent 68% of recent activity; by potential value, the top five customers account for only 24% of combined potential value, signaling a highly distributed grant portfolio. The organization holds one recurring parent vehicle: an indefinite delivery contract under US Coast Guard contract HSCG2314DMMC007, against which five task orders have been placed totaling $954 thousand.

Recent grant work centers on occupational safety and health for commercial fishing. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (CFDA 93.262, Occupational Safety and Health Program) awarded two project grants on September 1, 2026: $548,086 to develop and deliver first aid and opioid overdose response training for commercial fishermen through August 31, 2029, and $731,247 to deliver commercial fishing safety training, wearable personal flotation device promotion, and injury prevention to remote Alaskan fishing communities through the same end date. An earlier NIOSH cooperative agreement from September 1, 2023, funded improving commercial fishing training and outreach for Alaska salmon set gillnetters through August 31, 2026. NOAA awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order on April 1, 2022, for marine safety instructor training and refresher courses ($125,916 base year, four option years through March 31, 2027), performed in Sitka to certify and refresh marine safety instructors for NOAA's Office of Science and Technology. Activity has been sparse and intermittent — one award in 2020, 2022, 2023, and 2024, with two in 2026 — with only one award ($126 thousand) reaching completion inside the next twenty-four months. The organization subcontracts minimally; one sub-grant award appears in the source, received from Oregon State University in September 2024 for sustaining and expanding fishermen first aid and safety training capacity.