Nmc, Inc.

Nmc, Inc., doing business as New Mexico Consortium, is a nonprofit research organization based in Los Alamos, New Mexico, that operates as a prime recipient on federal research grants and cooperative agreements in space science, heliophysics, environmental studies, and advanced computational modeling, with recent growth into fire management and cultural resource applications using LiDAR technology. The organization competes predominantly in full-and-open federal research grant and cooperative agreement vehicles rather than set-aside categories, bringing no SBA designations to its portfolio.

The consortium's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward NASA and the National Science Foundation. NASA's Shared Services Center leads by volume (41 awards, $11.5 million combined potential value) and represents the core of New Mexico Consortium's work in space science and heliophysics research. The National Science Foundation accounts for 27 awards across multiple directorates, anchored in collaborative research on fundamental plasma physics, solar corona heating mechanisms, and earth-system science. The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (8 awards) and Office of Science (6 awards) round out the top-four funding sources. Together, these four agency lines account for 71% of the award count and 92% of combined potential value, signaling substantial customer concentration in civil research agencies rather than defense or homeland security.

Representative prime awards characterize the organizational capability portfolio. NMC recipient awards from NASA include a $822,403 grant for a balanced science program aligned with NASA priorities through 2028 (awarded November 2025), a $586,686 grant for the Heliophysics Theory, Integrated Diagnostics, and Experiments Scoping program studying parametric decay instability in the heliosphere (awarded March 2023), a $500,434 grant for radiation belt enhancement event research addressing space weather prediction (awarded March 2024), and a sole-source $144,810 grant for continued support of the SWIFT mission through January 2027 (awarded February 2023). NSF awards include a $149,999 collaborative research grant on data-driven spatial genomics modeling of X-chromosome inactivation with Princeton, New York University, and Harvard (awarded June 2024); a $100,000 conference support grant for the Microbiome Data Management workshop (awarded June 2024); and a $270,310 collaborative research grant on neutrino blazar physics with Purdue University (awarded September 2023). Non-research-grant work includes a $989,994 Army definitive contract through the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program for LiDAR applications in cultural resource management and archaeological survey (awarded April 2025), a $858,793 cooperative agreement for Aurorasaurus citizen science infrastructure augmentation (awarded August 2024), and federal agency–funded cooperative agreements from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service on fire and LiDAR applications ($676,991 for fire behavior modeling and LiDAR feature detection, awarded April 2024) and the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management on ornate box turtle habitat research in New Mexico ($119,056, awarded September 2024).

Activity has grown from six awards in 2022 to sixteen in both 2024 and 2025. Eight awards have arrived year-to-date in 2026. Thirteen awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months with combined potential value of $1.7 million, representing modest recompete exposure. The organization's combined obligated dollars ($86.3 million) substantially exceed combined potential value ($12.5 million), reflecting the nature of research grants awarded over multiple years with front-loaded obligations and full spend-down patterns.

NMC operates as a prime on 83% of its awards and as a subcontractor on 17%, primarily to Los Alamos National Laboratory's management contractor Triad National Security, LLC. Recent sub awards under Triad include work on contingent labor and human resource services, data analysis support for heliosphere research, ultrascale systems research center operations, and research and development tasks. NMC also subcontracts under academic grant primes, including Pennsylvania State University on the BlackCAT CubeSat project, University of Michigan on numerical simulations of interplanetary shocks, and University of California, Davis on dryland eco-hydrologic modeling.

The Service Contract Inventory dataset captures minimal activity — a single subcontractor record in FY2024 with 0.3 FTEs — because SCI reporting applies to service contracts above the $150,000 threshold and excludes research grants and cooperative agreements that dominate NMC's portfolio. The organization's federal activity sits almost entirely in research grant and cooperative agreement instruments rather than service contracts subject to SCI reporting.