American Meteorological Society, Inc.

American Meteorological Society, Inc. is a tax-exempt non-profit professional organization based in Boston, Massachusetts that serves as a prime recipient of federal grants and a sole-source procurer of scientific publication, conference management, and professional development services across civilian agencies, with no subcontractor footprint in the federal space. AMS operates in full-and-open competition (no set-aside designations across its recent award activity) and holds the world's largest membership base of meteorologists and atmospheric scientists — over 13,000 members spanning academia, government, and private sector disciplines.

AMS's federal footprint centers overwhelmingly on NOAA, which accounts for 599 awards (60% of all awards by count) and $14.1 million in combined potential value (56% of total portfolio dollars). The next-largest customers are the Office of Naval Research (158 awards, $562 thousand), NASA Shared Services Center (54 awards, $3.3 million), and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (92 awards, $661 thousand). The concentration is pronounced: NOAA's combined potential value alone dwarfs all other federal customers combined, and the top five agencies account for 60% of all awards and 83% of dollars. The portfolio spans 48 distinct federal agencies, but activity outside the top five remains sparse and episodic.

AMS holds two active NOAA BPAs: a single-award BPA for abstracts, publications, and registration services valued at $1.1 million (effective February 2022 through January 2027, with two executed task orders to date), and a second single-award BPA for climate reporting, conference registration, and submission services valued at $150 thousand (awarded September 2021, with an ultimate completion date of September 2024). These vehicles establish AMS as NOAA's captive provider for specialized conference logistics and scientific publication support. Representative contract work includes a $16,196 purchase order (April 2026, NOAA) for review, editing, and publishing of the annual State of the Climate Report as a supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society; a $20,250 BPA call (August 2023, NOAA) for registration and abstract services for the 104th AMS Annual Meeting; and a $7,655 BPA call (August 2022, NOAA) for conference planning and publication page charges. AMS also holds a $9,715 subscription renewal with the Office of Naval Research (December 2025) and a $14,001 purchase order with NASA Shared Services Center (February 2024) for workshops supporting NASA's Open Source Science Initiative.

AMS's federal grant portfolio spans five years of active awards from NSF, NASA, and NOAA, positioning the organization as a research collaborator on climate, workforce development, and Earth system science initiatives. The $1.06 million five-year grant from NASA (awarded August 2023, completion August 2028) funds the "Enabling the Climate Enterprise: The Continuum of Information Through Application" initiative, which establishes foundational outcomes for transforming climate enterprise capacity through community-wide discussion, partnership development, strategic framework creation, and workforce development. A $249,614 NSF Geosciences grant (awarded August 2025, completion July 2026) supports the "C2H2 Conference" series advancing collaboration between weather and health communities through virtual and in-person convenings. AMS holds a $1.8 million Cooperative Agreement with NOAA (awarded October 2022, completion September 2027) for the Cooperative Program for Earth System Education, delivering K-12 teacher professional development at national scale, graduate student fellowships, and curriculum redesign to reach underserved educators and climate-vulnerable communities. Additional NSF awards support the Science Policy Colloquium leadership development program for early-career scientists (awarded August 2024, completion July 2027) and a travel grant initiative for faculty at under-resourced institutions (awarded October 2023, completion September 2024). AMS also appears as a sub-recipient on four recent federal grants: a sub-award from Oregon State University (November 2024 and November 2025) under the NSF Science and Technology Center for Oldest Ice Exploration, and two sub-awards from Concord Consortium Inc. (October 2025) for participant recruitment and curriculum development on storm forecasting and hazard-impact simulation modules.

Recent activity shows declining award volume. The five-year trajectory reads 18 awards in 2022, declining to 17 in 2023, 7 in 2024, 8 in 2025, and 2 recorded through April 2026. Combined potential value across all 1,602 awards (dating to 1990) stands at $25.4 million, though obligated dollars total $46.4 million, indicating significant completion and payment across the historical portfolio. Six awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $34 thousand — a minimal recompete exposure. AMS's NAICS footprint clusters around "Professional Organizations" (753 awards) and "Periodical Publishers" (254 awards), with PSC coding dominated by "Photo/Map/Print/Publication — Other" (549 awards) and "Newspapers and Periodicals" (142 awards), reflecting the organization's core mission as publisher of peer-reviewed journals and host of scientific conferences.