Inspire Environmental, Inc.

Inspire Environmental, Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit corporation based in Newport, Rhode Island, operates exclusively as a subcontractor on federal environmental and marine-science awards, delivering technical support for watershed protection, marine ecology assessment, and offshore wind impact analysis to federal agencies and academic recipients funded by the federal government.

The vendor's footprint is narrow and recent. Across four total awards spanning 2023–2026, all subcontract work, Inspire Environmental has obligated $751 thousand in combined federal value. The vendor serves three distinct customer agencies: the Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research (2 awards), the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (1 award), and the Environmental Protection Agency's Office for Water (1 award). All four awards are subcontracts; the vendor holds no prime contracts or IDVs in the source data.

Inspire Environmental's work centers on marine environmental characterization and acoustic assessment. The vendor subcontracts to the University of California San Diego on a $125.75 thousand National Science Foundation-funded grant (initial award June 26, 2024, modified February 26, 2025) focused on substrate-borne vibroacoustic disturbances from offshore wind turbines and their effects on benthic organisms. The statement of work explicitly credits Inspire Environmental's "industry-leading efforts to characterize the seafloor environment for the offshore wind industry" using Sediment Profile and Plan View Imaging (SPI/PV) and video to assign Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS) classifications. The vendor also subcontracts to the University of Rhode Island on two separate "Discovery of Sound in the Sea" awards (one from May 22, 2023, one from April 1, 2023). Most recently, on April 2, 2026, Inspire Environmental received a subcontract modification for technical support on assessment and watershed protection under a prime contract identified as RTI1005094, Subcontract 463.

Service Contract Inventory data shows minimal SCI-captured federal services activity: 1.5 FTEs in FY2024 and 2.5 FTEs in FY2025, all delivered as a named subcontractor to prime service providers. The vendor operates as a pure subcontractor with no prime contracting footprint and no visible parent vehicle seats. Award trajectory is flat to sparse — two awards in 2023, one in 2024, one in 2026 — with no recompete cliff visible in the near term.