Isciences LLC

Isciences LLC, doing business as Isciences, is a for-profit limited liability company based in Burlington, Vermont that provides geospatial data infrastructure maintenance, open-source software development, and environmental science research to federal agencies primarily as a grant recipient and subcontractor. Isciences operates as a prime recipient on federal research grants (69% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor on service contracts under larger primes, with no set-aside designations across its footprint.

Isciences delivers concrete capability in open-source geospatial software stewardship and hydrologic climate science. Representative prime grant work includes a $405,579 NASA Shared Services Center grant (awarded January 2025, completion December 2027) for sustaining and enhancing the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) build system, documentation, test suite, and code maintainability, a $172,309 NASA grant (September 2022 through August 2025) for similar GDAL improvements, and a $500,000 NOAA Cooperative Agreement under the Climate and Atmospheric Research program (CFDA 11.431, awarded July 2026, completion June 2028) to develop structural time series decomposition methods for characterizing drought under non-stationary conditions. The NOAA work will extend from an initial Vermont geographic focus through the Northeast DEWS region to the Continental U.S., collaborating with state climatologists, drought coordinators, and Drought.gov.

Customer concentration reflects a research and environmental-data orientation. The top five agencies account for 94% of recent awards, led by NASA Shared Services Center (6 awards, $578 thousand combined potential value), NOAA (4 awards), and the Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center (3 awards, $1.4 million). The Corps of Engineers dominates potential-value ranking despite lower award count, signaling larger per-award magnitude in that customer relationship. Isciences places subcontract work under Consolidated Safety Services Incorporated on NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), performing scientific data stewardship, product development, and user engagement services related to Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law tasks. Isciences also subcontracts to Columbia University on a NASA open-science education grant (SCHOOL project), designing curriculum materials and implementing Python and R notebooks for geospatial software instruction.

Activity remains light and intermittent — two awards in 2022, one in 2023, three in 2024, two in 2025, and one in 2026 — with three awards (combined potential value $406 thousand) reaching completion within the next twenty-four months. Across SCI-reportable subcontracts, Isciences deployed roughly 2.5 FTEs in FY2022, 3.3 FTEs in FY2024, and 5.5 FTEs in FY2025, though SCI captures only federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold and excludes grants, goods, and non-federal revenue. On parent vehicles, Isciences holds positions on ProTech 2.0 — Satellite Domain (2 task orders) and NOAA ProTech Services Solution (1 task order). Isciences' primary NAICS categories center on Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, positioning the vendor as a specialized research contractor and open-source infrastructure contributor rather than a broad services prime.

Environmental remote sensing R&D; image and data processing and visualization; development of software for image and data processing and visualization; database development; sustainability research; water stress indicators modeling