American Academy Of Orthopaedic Surgeons

American Academy Of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), a tax-exempt non-profit professional medical association headquartered in Rosemont, Illinois, operates as a federal grant and contract recipient focused on orthopaedic medical research, clinical practice guidelines, and professional conference participation. AAOS works with federal agencies as a prime recipient on grants and conference-space contracts but maintains minimal presence as a federal contractor; the organization has competed full-and-open across its federal footprint without set-aside designations.

AAOS's federal activity centers on two distinct capability streams: convention and trade show management, and orthopaedic clinical research. On the conference side, AAOS rents booth space to the Department of Army Office of the Secretary at the AAOS Annual Meetings — a series of firm fixed-price purchase orders for 20-by-30-foot booth space at major medical conferences. Representative conference awards include a $24.6 thousand purchase order awarded March 2, 2026, for booth space at the 2026 Annual Meeting in New Orleans; a $24 thousand order for booth space at San Diego Convention Center from March 10–13, 2025; and a $23.985 thousand booth rental from February 1, 2023. All four visible prime contracts carry Army Office of the Secretary funding and are classified under NAICS 561920 (Convention and Trade Show Organizers) and PSC H201 (Lease/Rental of Conference Space and Facilities). On the research side, AAOS acts as a sub-recipient under a Mayo Clinic-led federal grant for the American Joint Replacement Research-Collaborative (AJRR-C) and the Core Center for Clinical Research in Total Joint Arthroplasty (CORE-TJA), a National Institutes of Health-funded initiative focused on clinical research methodologies and data infrastructure for total joint arthroplasty outcomes.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward defense. The Department of Army Office of the Secretary dominates the portfolio at 13 awards and $304 thousand combined potential value (52% of awards by count, 91% by potential value). The National Institutes of Health represents the secondary customer with 10 awards carrying $76 thousand potential value. The Department of Defense, Department of the Navy, Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences account for the remainder. AAOS sits on one parent vehicle: IDC DADA1095D0040, with two task orders placed against it. Recent activity remains modest — one award in 2021, one in 2022, two in 2023, two in 2025, and one in 2026 — reflecting the organization's role as a specialized medical-conference partner and research collaborator rather than a high-volume federal service provider. Combined potential value across all 65 awards totals $350 thousand, though obligations exceed potential value at $1.6 million, indicating that the organization's historical portfolio carries higher realized invoiced revenue than current-year pipeline suggests.