Openet Inc.

Openet Inc., a Salt Lake City–based nonprofit organization, conducts federally funded research on agricultural water consumption and compiles open-source data for public dissemination, operating primarily as a grant recipient with the Department of the Interior rather than as a federal contractor. The organization holds one prime federal grant and two sub-award positions, with all recent funding rooted in Interior's water-resource and geological-survey mission.

Openet's federal footprint is concentrated within the Department of the Interior. The organization serves two Interior sub-agencies: the Bureau of Reclamation (1 prime award) and the U.S. Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants (2 awards via sub-award relationship), accounting for 100% of the organization's recent federal awards. The prime recipient role centers on a June 2023 project grant from the Bureau of Reclamation, running through April 2027, to research and compile information documenting agricultural water use in the Upper Basin. The data is made publicly available and shared with states and member organizations to support water-resource decision-making. Openet serves as a sub-recipient under prime grants awarded to the University Corporation at Monterey Bay: a January 2024 sub-award for governance-strategy development, a five-year strategic plan, and data-archive management; and an April 2025 sub-award for implementation, planning, and coordination of OpenET activities alongside completion of a usage-monitoring report.

Combined obligated dollars across all three awards total $917 thousand. Activity is steady at one award per year across the 2023–2025 window. One award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. Openet's capability portfolio is narrowly specialized: agricultural water-consumption research, data compilation and governance, and public-data-archive management within the Colorado River Basin and related Interior water-policy contexts.