Nmc, Inc.

Nmc, Inc., doing business as New Mexico Consortium, is a Los Alamos, New Mexico-based nonprofit research organization that operates as a prime recipient on federal research grants and cooperative agreements, delivering heliophysics research, space science, environmental modeling, LiDAR-based fire and cultural resource management, and advanced computational support to federal agencies on a full-and-open competitive basis. The organization competes across no set-aside categories and carries no SBA designations.

New Mexico Consortium's federal footprint is heavily concentrated in research grant work rather than service contracts. The vendor acts as prime recipient on 100 of its 124 tracked awards (81%), with the remainder split between subcontract roles under other primes (typically academic institutions and the Los Alamos National Laboratory operator) and grant sub-awards. Across recent fiscal years, the organization has tracked modest growth: six awards in 2022 to sixteen in both 2024 and 2025, with twelve awards recorded in 2026 to date. The combined potential value across all tracked awards stands at $12.9 million, though the obligated-value figure of $87 million reflects a multi-year grant portfolio where funding has been staged across performance periods.

The vendor's customer concentration is pronounced and tilted toward federal research agencies. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center anchors the portfolio with 42 awards valued at $11.5 million in combined potential value, representing the largest share by both count and dollars. The National Science Foundation ranks second with 27 awards (dollar total not specified in the source), followed by the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration (9 awards) and the Department of Energy Office of Science (6 awards). These five customer entities account for 70% of awards and 89% of combined potential value. Eleven awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry a combined potential value of $2 million and face recompete in that window.

Representative prime grant work includes a $822,403 NASA Science program grant (CFDA 43.001) for balanced science research running through November 2028; a $586,686 NASA Shared Services Center grant for parametric decay instability research in the heliosphere aligned with the H-TIDES Program, with findings applicable to Parker Solar Probe and WIND mission data interpretation; a $989,994 Department of Defense contract from the Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity under an ESTCP BAA for advancing LiDAR applications to cultural resource management through machine learning for archaeological survey; a $858,793 cooperative agreement for Aurorasaurus infrastructure augmentation (citizen science aurora observations); and a $676,991 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service cooperative agreement under the National Fire Plan program (CFDA 15.674) to develop LiDAR feature detection workflows for archaeological site identification and apply LiDAR vegetation data to fire behavior modeling. The organization also received a $369,998 purchase order from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for LiDAR processing support for the Migratory Birds Program with ultimate completion in September 2027. In the NSF portfolio, New Mexico Consortium holds a $149,999 Integrative Activities award (CFDA 47.083) for collaborative research on X-chromosome inactivation spatial genomics modeling across multiple scales and a $100,000 Biological Sciences workshop grant (CFDA 47.074) for "Microbiome Data Management in Action" held in Atlanta in June 2024.

Across SCI-reportable federal service contracts (a small subset of the organization's total federal activity, capturing contracts above $150,000), the data are sparse: two SCI records track New Mexico Consortium as a named subcontractor in FY2024 and FY2025, with a combined FTE footprint of 0.3 FTEs in FY2024 and 0.6 FTEs in FY2025. This limited SCI visibility reflects the vendor's core positioning as a prime grant recipient in research rather than as a service contractor.

New Mexico Consortium operates as a subcontractor to major prime contractors including Triad National Security, LLC (the Los Alamos National Laboratory operations contractor), where it delivers contingent labor, human resource services, R&D support including data analysis for heliophysics research and design-and-construction services under Los Alamos Institutional General Funds (IGF) competition. Academic-led grant work routes through sub-award relationships with the University of Pennsylvania (on a NIAID Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Response award), Michigan Technological University, Penn State University, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of California, Davis, where the consortium provides specialized expertise in lightning mapping, cubesat collaboration, dryland eco-hydrologic modeling, and astrophysics instrumentation development. The organization also serves as a sub-recipient on National Science Foundation awards led by universities including New York University and Harvard, where it contributes computational biology and biomolecular modeling expertise to X-chromosome inactivation research.

The organization's capability portfolio centers on space science and heliophysics research (solar wind turbulence, radiation belt dynamics, parametric decay instability, chorus wave modeling), LiDAR-based environmental characterization (fire behavior modeling via QUICFIRE, archaeological site detection, cultural resource vulnerability assessment), advanced computational modeling, and environmental science spanning ecosystem dynamics, climate impacts on fire regimes, and infrastructure hazard prediction from post-fire debris flows. New Mexico Consortium draws on regional academic partnerships with the University of New Mexico, Michigan Technological University, and Pennsylvania State University, and maintains collaborative relationships with Los Alamos National Laboratory, NASA, the Department of Energy, NOAA, and the National Science Foundation—relationships reflected in both its direct awards and its role as a sub-recipient on awards managed by those agencies' academic partners.