Cornell Cooperative Extension Association Of Suffolk County

Cornell Cooperative Extension Association Of Suffolk County, doing business as CCE Suffolk, is a county-level government entity and community development corporation that operates as a federal grant recipient focused on applied research, fisheries conservation, and stakeholder engagement in marine and agricultural sectors, with no federal contract footprint. The organization competes exclusively under full-and-open federal grant competitions, predominantly with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

CCE Suffolk's federal award portfolio centers on fisheries bycatch reduction, marine debris management, and seafood industry development in the Greater Atlantic Region and Long Island Sound. Representative prime grant work includes a $226,780 NOAA Cooperative Research Program (CFDA 11.472) award effective June 2026 through November 2027 to conduct at-sea testing and stakeholder outreach for Turtle Excluder Devices in the offshore longfin squid fishery, with planned 90 tows in the Hudson Canyon area; a $2.4 million NOAA Marine Debris Program (CFDA 11.999) cooperative agreement running through November 2029 to remove over 9,000 derelict lobster traps from Long Island Sound in partnership with current and former fishing industry members; and a $292,752 NOAA Fisheries Development and Utilization Research Program (CFDA 11.427) grant from September 2023 through August 2025 to promote local seafood consumption through 50 cooking demonstrations and a "Meet the Fishermen that Feed You" marketing campaign. Additional prime work includes NOAA-funded research on monkfish market analysis, summer flounder gear development, and conservation engineering for bycatch reduction, as well as USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service cooperative agreements on box tree moth integrated management for nursery production (July 2024–June 2025) and adjuvant evaluation for boxwood plant protection (completed August 2023).

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to NOAA, which accounts for 34 of 56 prime awards (61%) and $1.5 million of the combined potential value across the prime footprint. The Environmental Protection Agency Region 1, EPA Region 2, the CDC, and USDA Agricultural Research Service comprise a secondary tier of funding agencies. The organization also received a $228,018 USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Equipment Grants Program award in 2021 for permeable reactive barriers to improve Long Island water quality.

CCE Suffolk operates in a sub-award capacity on multiple federal grants managed by prime recipients including the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Save the Sound Inc., the Interstate Environmental Commission, Cornell University, the University of Maryland College Park, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Recent sub-awards include $27,686 from the Interstate Environmental Commission (May 2026) for fecal indicator bacteria monitoring in Eastern Suffolk County under EPA's Long Island Sound pathogen monitoring network; support for the Lobster Trap Recovery & Assessment Partnership under Virginia Institute of Marine Science project management (February 2025); and participation in the "Reef Raisers + Meadow Makers" oyster restoration and coastal plant propagation program under National Fish and Wildlife Foundation funding (March 2025). Sub-award activities also include tick control assessments, corn earworm management research support, ribbed mussel hatchery conditioning evaluation, and water quality monitoring across multiple embayments.

The organization has generated 56 prime awards totaling $3.4 million in combined potential value, with $12.6 million in cumulative obligated dollars across 79 awards (prime and sub combined) spanning the past two decades. Recent activity stabilized at 6 awards per year in 2025 and 2026 after a peak of 10 awards in 2024. Three awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing potential recompete opportunity. CCE Suffolk operates primarily under the support-management data collection PSC category and research and development in physical, engineering, and life sciences NAICS, with headquarters in Riverhead, New York, and operational presence across Long Island's coastal and agricultural regions.