Auburn University Montgomery

Auburn University Montgomery operates as a recipient of federal research and educational grants primarily from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Education, with a secondary footprint as a subcontractor on federally funded research conducted through prime recipients. The institution is a minority-serving, state-controlled educational entity headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama, and functions as a division within the larger Auburn University system (parent UEI DMQNDJDHTDG4).

Auburn University Montgomery's federal award portfolio spans 79 total awards with a combined potential value of $136.5 million and $72.6 million in obligated dollars (53% of potential). The institution acts as prime recipient on 75 awards (95%) and as a subcontractor on 4 federal grant sub-awards (5%). Recent activity shows moderate growth, with 4 awards in 2025 and 4 in 2026 against a baseline of 2–3 annually in 2023–2024. Four awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete opportunity.

The institution's recent grant work spans biomedical research, STEM education capacity-building, and applied mathematics. Representative prime awards include a $1,109,890 Cooperative Agreement from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS, CFDA 93.859) awarded March 18, 2026, to expand sponsored-programs administrative capacity and research compliance infrastructure, with performance through February 28, 2031. The National Institutes of Health Office of the Director funded a $508,516 project grant (CFDA 93.310) awarded September 1, 2026, investigating how inclusive family entrepreneurship affects emotional well-being and financial stress in adults with Down syndrome, running through August 31, 2029. Auburn University Montgomery received a $598,786 NSF STEM Education award (October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2025) to implement and assess multi-tiered mentoring in introductory undergraduate biology courses. The National Science Foundation also funded a $249,818 NIGMS award (September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2026) for acquisition of a Seahorse XFE24 Extracellular Flux Analyzer to support metabolic research. Additional recent awards include a $436,161 Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service Distance Learning and Telemedicine grant (CFDA 10.855, February 17, 2026), a $273,692 Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services grant for special education teacher preparation (CFDA 84.325, October 1, 2025), and an NSF Capacity Building Pilot grant to establish a machine learning lab (awarded November 1, 2024, through October 31, 2027).

Customer concentration is diversified across research agencies. The Air Force Air Education and Training Command leads by award count (16 awards, $1.2 million combined potential value), though this ranking reflects primarily training and facilities-rental contracts rather than research. The National Science Foundation follows with 8 awards, and the Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education, holds 5 awards. By potential value, the same tier dominates: the Air Force Air Education and Training Command at $1.2 million, NASA Shared Services Center at $448 thousand, and the Department of the Army Alabama Army National Guard at $14 thousand. The top five customers by award count cover 48% of recent awards. Auburn University Montgomery works across 26 distinct federal agencies, signaling broad exposure but shallow penetration with most customers.

Work is performed in Montgomery, Alabama, with the institution functioning as an emerging biomedical research center. The university has documented a 525 percent increase in federal grant applications since 2018, particularly NIH submissions, following prior Institutional Development Award (IDA) support. Faculty research priorities span cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, cancer, adipose tissue biology, environmental toxicology, host-pathogen interactions, immunology, special education teacher preparation, power systems mathematics, and ecological modeling. The institution supports undergraduate and graduate research training across biochemistry and molecular biology, computer science, and STEM education.

On the subcontractor side, Auburn University Montgomery appears in four federal grant sub-awards: research support on an Indiana University National Science Foundation cybersecurity project (September 11, 2026), law enforcement training sub-awards from the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs (April 2, 2026; March 20, 2025; October 1, 2022), and a vehicle energy research sub-award through Daimler Truck North America LLC (January 4, 2023). The Service Contract Inventory dataset shows 5 SCI records as a named subcontractor in FY2022, representing 15.0 full-time equivalents delivered to the federal government on service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold—a narrow slice of the institution's actual federal R&D footprint, which is dominated by federal research grants not captured in SCI.

Auburn University Montgomery does not hold any federal contracting vehicles (GWACs, IDIQs, or agency-wide BPAs) as a prime awardee. The top parent vehicle in the dataset is an Air Force Indefinite Delivery Contract (F0160003D0031) with 12 task orders and $70 thousand combined potential value, consistent with training and facility-support work rather than R&D delivery.