New Jersey Institute Of Technology

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), a public Hispanic-serving polytechnic research university based in Newark, operates as a prime recipient on federal grants and a prime contractor on federal research and development agreements, competing in full-and-open procurements across civilian agencies, the Department of Defense, and the National Science Foundation. The institution holds no set-aside designations and does not compete under small-business categories.

NJIT's federal award footprint spans 1,429 total awards (prime and sub, all sources) with a combined potential value of $220.2 million. The institution operates primarily as a direct recipient and prime contractor (91% of recent awards), with a modest subcontractor footprint (9%) that includes contract work under Leidos, Booz Allen Hamilton, Johns Hopkins University, Rutgers University, and other large primes on collaborative research programs. SCI-reported invoicing across federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $1.5 million in FY2022–FY2025, with workforce scale fluctuating between 0.7 and 3.8 FTEs per fiscal year on those capturable contracts. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable federal services work ranged from $46.44/hr (10th percentile) to $640.42/hr (90th percentile), with a median around $128.20/hr.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to the National Science Foundation (352 awards), NASA Shared Services Center (147 awards, $39.7 million combined potential value), and the Department of the Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (19 awards, $67 million combined potential value). The top five customer agencies account for 43% of recent awards by count and 59% of combined potential value. NJIT competes primarily on cost-reimbursable research grants and task orders under indefinite-delivery contracts (IDCs) with the Army and Air Force. Notable parent vehicles include Army IDC W15QKN17D0029 ($48.9 million across 12 task orders) and RDECOM IDC W911QX24D0021 (single-award IDC for AI-driven multi-fidelity modeling, $250,000 ceiling).

Recent prime work concentrates in space physics, solar heliophysics, and advanced materials research. Representative examples include a $4.99 million cooperative agreement from NASA Shared Services Center (Oct 2024) to establish an AI-Powered Solar Eruption Center of Excellence through Sept 2029; a $1.23 million Department of Defense grant (Mar 2025) for ultrasound-generated nanobubble technology to destroy per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in contaminated water through Mar 2029; and a $782,840 NASA ROSES grant (Apr 2025) for solar physics research using helioseismic and machine learning methods, completing Mar 2028. The institution also holds a $99,849 task order under the Army RDECOM IDC for AI-driven reliability modeling of critical defense materiel systems (award date Sep 2024, completion Jun 2026).

Federal grant recipients include NSF divisions (Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Computer and Information Science and Engineering, Chemistry, Engineering), NASA, the Department of Defense, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture, and the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation. Awards span solar physics, space weather forecasting, artificial intelligence and machine learning, biomedical engineering (cardiac energy harvesting, traumatic brain injury treatment, tissue engineering), environmental remediation (PFAS degradation, phosphorus recovery from wastewater), cybersecurity education, and foundational mathematics and physics research. A significant share of recent awards (54 in 2026, 81 in 2025) were issued under the National Science Foundation's CFDA 47 suite and CFDA 12 (defense research programs), with completion dates extending through 2030.

Recompete exposure in the next 24 months totals $13.1 million across 116 awards, representing renewal or competitive replacement risk on grants and IDC task orders maturing through 2027. Activity has declined from a 2024 peak of 132 awards to 81 in 2025 and 54 in 2026, indicating either a shift in reporting lag or reduced new award velocity; the source carries only one award dated in 2027, suggesting incomplete visibility into future commitments.

NJIT operates a subsidiary, New Jersey Innovation Institute Inc., a non-profit organization that may house commercialization or technology-transfer activities, though the source does not disclose its federal contracting role. The institution's corporate structure remains that of a public university with no parent company.