Digital Promise Global

Digital Promise Global, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC, operates as a federal grant recipient and prime contractor delivering K-12 educational technology research, curriculum development, and professional learning services to civilian agencies with no set-aside designations. The organization functions predominantly as a grant-funded research institution (73% of recent awards are prime positions) rather than as a federal contractor seeking repeat vehicle placement or SCI-reportable service work.

Digital Promise Global's federal footprint centers squarely on education research and innovation, particularly around computational thinking, data science, artificial intelligence integration, and STEM pedagogy for K-12 students. The National Science Foundation dominates the customer base with 14 awards ($5.7 million combined potential value), spanning multiple NSF divisions. The Department of Education accounts for 11 awards across the Institute of Education Sciences and the Office of Planning Evaluation and Policy Development, with the largest single award being a $3.1 million definitive contract from the Education Department's Office of Educational Technology to provide national educational technology leadership activities through September 2029, following a previous award held by WestED. Recent grant work includes a $1.46 million Education Sciences research grant for the Community Hub of Accelerate, Transform, Scale (ATS) Teams initiative (awarded September 2025, completing September 2026); an $889,630 NSF collaborative research grant on data science and machine learning pathways across four school districts in Florida, Illinois, Iowa, and Alabama (October 2025–September 2029); a $397,980 NSF grant on network visualization and data literacy for middle school students using the Net.Create software tool (May 2023–April 2026); and a $5.7 million NSF definitive contract for the Visionary Interdisciplinary Teams Advancing Learning (VITAL) Prize Competition completed in April 2024.

The organization serves eleven distinct federal customer agencies, with NSF and the Department of Education accounting for 86% of recent awards by count. The top two customers by potential value—NSF ($5.7 million across 14 awards) and the Education Department's Office of Planning Evaluation and Policy Development ($3.1 million)—drive customer concentration. Notably, Digital Promise operates across multiple NSF divisions, including the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (8 awards) and the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (5 awards, including work on K-12 AI integration with Broward County Public Schools). A single NIST cooperative agreement on cybersecurity education pathways in East Alabama (April 2024–September 2026) rounds out the customer set.

Digital Promise operates as a subcontractor to university research centers and education foundations on grant work, including sub-awards with the University of Pennsylvania on data science learning analytics training programs, William Marsh Rice University on large-scale learning research infrastructure, SRI International on community college workforce initiatives, and the University of Virginia on STEM+C customization studies. These sub-award relationships reflect Digital Promise's role as a research partner and convening facilitator rather than as a service delivery subcontractor. The organization also subcontracts to MDRC on school improvement program evaluation (modification date March 2024, budget increased to $463,158).

Activity has been volatile: four awards in 2022 ramped to eight in 2023 and nine in 2024, then declined to six in 2025 with one award appearing in 2026 (reflecting reporting lag). Ten awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure. Service Contract Inventory data shows minimal SCI-reportable invoiced revenue ($0 across FY2022–FY2024), with fewer than one FTE equivalent reported across prime contracts in most years; this reflects the organization's grant-funded research model rather than a service-contract delivery posture. Digital Promise collaborates with woman-owned small business The Hatcher Group on communications and design support and engages school districts, university research partners, and workforce organizations as core research-practice partnership collaborators rather than traditional subcontractors. The organization's portfolio is concentrated in research and educational innovation rather than in recurring federal service contracts or government-wide vehicle placements.