Hofstra University

Hofstra University, a private non-profit educational institution based in Hempstead, New York, operates as a federal grant recipient and prime contractor delivering tuition-based educational services, research training, and STEM workforce development to civilian agencies and the Department of the Navy. The university competes under full-and-open designation with no SBA set-asides across its federal award footprint.

Hofstra's federal customer base concentrates heavily on civilian research and education agencies. The National Science Foundation leads award volume with 42 prime grants, while the Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery dominates dollar value across 31 awards totaling $1.3 million in combined potential value under a Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA N0018914GZ019) established September 1, 2025, running through August 31, 2035. The top five customers by award count represent 49% of all awards; the top five by potential value represent 74%, indicating concentration in Navy tuition and fees contracts offset by NSF's volume of smaller research grants. Hofstra holds a single-award BOA with Navy BUMED that has generated 27 delivery orders for tuition and educational services valued at $15,000 to $58,000 per order.

Hofstra's capability portfolio divides between three parallel streams. First, Navy tuition and fee support: firm-fixed-price delivery orders under the BUMED BOA provide training and educational services to Navy personnel, with historical awards dated 2022–2024 now completing. Second, NSF research and STEM education grants: the university holds 42 awards across multiple NSF directorates funding biomedical research, computational science, computer science education, and faculty research initiation. Representative prime grants include a $247,996 LEAPS-MPS award (Division of Mathematical Sciences, October 2025–September 2027) for computational methods in two-dimensional moire materials with undergraduate mentoring; a $1.9 million EXCITE II grant (Division of Computer and Network Systems, October 2023–September 2027) for technology and engineering teacher professional development in nine states to deliver Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles instruction; and a $355,003 T32 Medical Scientist Training Program award (National Institute of General Medical Sciences, July 2026–June 2031, CFDA 93.859) supporting integrated MD/PhD physician-scientist training at the Zucker School of Medicine. Third, specialized research training and education: NIH grants including a $452,399 plant genomics award (Division of Biological Infrastructure, June 2024–May 2027) investigating epigenetic regulation of transposable elements in maize with collaborative undergraduate research experience and fellowship components, and a $2.2 million NIH R25 grant (National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioenginering, April 2025–March 2030) supporting bioengineering capstone curriculum with finite element analysis and clinical immersion for undergraduate students including underrepresented minorities. IRS Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) grants support student-led legal tax representation and education for low-income taxpayers.

Activity trajectory shows modest recent volume with 13 awards in 2025, 9 in 2024, and 11 in 2023, though only one award has been obligated in 2027 year-to-date. Eleven awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure primarily in the Navy BUMED delivery order pipeline and expiring NSF/NIH grants. The combined potential value across all 225 awards (197 prime, 28 sub-recipient) totals $2.8 million, though obligated dollars across all awards reach $125.4 million, reflecting strong spending history on older awards now in execution.

Hofstra acts as a sub-recipient on an additional 28 federal grants. Recent sub-award roles include serving as Co-Investigator on New York University speech-language pathology research (August 2026) managing clinical assessment and treatment fidelity; contributing supermassive black hole gravitational-wave physics modeling to University of Maryland Baltimore County's LISA mission research (June 2025); providing Machine Learning Foundations course instruction support under Cornell's Breakthrough Tech AI expansion (July 2026); and supporting VR simulation development for coastal change resilience research at the University of Delaware (August 2025). The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research has awarded Hofstra multiple T32 training grant sub-awards in translational immunology spanning 2022–2024.

Place of performance includes Hempstead, New York (primary location) and the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell (medical research and physician-scientist training), with research and educational outreach extending across multiple states—Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, New Jersey, and others—through NSF and NSA-funded teacher professional development and curriculum initiatives. Hofstra's high-performance computing cluster, acquired through an NSF Major Research Instrumentation grant (October 2023–September 2026) in collaboration with Adelphi University and Nassau Community College, supports AI, machine learning, scientific computing, and interdisciplinary research across six departments.