Lane College

Lane College, a historically Black college located in Jackson, Tennessee, provides STEM education programming, youth leadership development, and workforce training services to federal agencies primarily as a grant recipient and occasional prime contractor, operating without set-aside designation on nearly all awards. Lane College is a private, tax-exempt, non-profit educational institution and minority-owned business classified under NAICS 611310 (Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools).

Lane College's federal footprint splits between contract work with the Department of the Army and grant work concentrated at the Department of Education and the National Science Foundation. On the contract side, the college has delivered five purchase orders and definitive contracts to the Army Recruiting Command totaling $1.6 million combined potential value, all firm fixed-price, non-set-aside awards for Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) Cadet Leadership Challenge (JCLC) STEM camps held in Jackson and Memphis, Tennessee. Representative examples include a $339,285 May 2026 purchase order for the Memphis Shelby STEM Camp (lodging, meals, program training, and facility usage from May 31–June 5, 2026), a $294,480 June 2025 award for a five-day JCLC-STEM program serving 190 JROTC cadets and 80 cadre, and a $325,500 June 2023 award for Memphis JCLC services. The college furnishes all personnel, equipment, facilities, transportation, and instruction required for these programs.

Lane College's grant portfolio is substantially larger. The Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education has awarded 14 project grants, with recent significant awards including a $1,645,403 October 2025 grant under the Higher Education Institutional Aid program (CFDA 84.031) for strengthening management, fiscal operations, and academic quality at the college (performance through September 30, 2027). The National Science Foundation awarded a $399,225 August 2024 project grant (CFDA 47.076) to develop bioinformatics and biotechnology certification programs aimed at increasing African American student and women participation in STEM graduate programs and biotechnology careers. The Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration awarded a $472,005 March 2023 project grant (CFDA 11.028) under the Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program to upgrade Lane College's broadband network infrastructure and equip the Dream and Innovation Center for workforce development in partnership with Arizona State University and CVS Health. Lane College also received a Department of Energy Office of Science project grant awarded September 1, 2023, to support fusion workforce development initiatives.

As a sub-recipient, Lane College participates in federal grant programs through three named prime recipients: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (Development and Implementation of Active Framework experimental platform for distributed and remote learning, October 2024), United Way of Middle Tennessee (HIV/STD prevention educational sessions, June 2024), and an unnamed prime grantee (Digital Skills, Education, and Workforce Development, January 2025). The college serves 12 distinct federal customer agencies across 35 total awards (91% prime, 9% sub). Activity has averaged 2–4 awards per year over the past five years, with two awards facing completion within the next twenty-four months and no recompete exposure beyond that window.