President And Fellows Of Middlebury College

President and Fellows of Middlebury College, a private not-for-profit liberal arts institution based in Middlebury, Vermont, receives federal contracts and grants as a prime recipient and contractor across research, language training, nonproliferation policy, and international security domains—competing full-and-open with no set-aside designations. The college functions as a grant-funded research institution (93% of recent awards are prime contracts and grants) and subordinate contractor on smaller education and international development sub-awards, with a recent portfolio spanning 327 awards across 80 federal agencies.

Middlebury's customer concentration reflects its research and security specialization. The National Science Foundation leads by award count with 58 recent grants, followed by the Department of State Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation (33 awards, $1.4 million potential value). By dollar volume, the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation Headquarters Division anchors the portfolio with 12 awards valued at $7.6 million, chiefly for the Middlebury College Summer Immersion Training program (foreign language instruction at federal cost). The Defense Threat Reduction Agency contributes 10 awards valued at $4.5 million for countering weapons of mass destruction dialogue and tabletop research support services. The Department of the Navy Naval Network Warfare Command and the Department of State Bureau of Arms Control Verification and Compliance round out the top customer set, collectively representing 87% of combined potential value.

Middlebury's prime contract and grant work splits across three capability areas. Language training and immersion programs constitute a substantial revenue line—Navy and FBI contracts for multi-language instruction (Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Dari) and English communications training, exemplified by a $351,155 FBI Summer Immersion Training definitive contract and recurring Naval Network Warfare Command delivery orders. Nuclear nonproliferation and export control research and training form a second pillar, including five contracts with DTRA for strategic trends research on emerging weapons of mass destruction threats (three awards in September 2024 totaling $902,000 potential value), a $249,811 State Department Bureau of Arms Control Verification and Compliance purchase order for research on counterproliferation efforts, and an ongoing $5 million-plus Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation grant from the Department of Energy for the Export Control Fellows Program (CFDA 81.113) running through January 2029. Federal research grants constitute the largest grant footprint—NSF awards spanning mathematical sciences, physics, geosciences, and biological sciences, including a $1.195 million NSF CAREER award on island mammal biogeography in the Gulf of Maine and a $540,427 National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke award on mathematical modeling of spinal cord stimulation efficacy. Other agencies funding Middlebury research include NASA (astronomy, satellite constellation assessment), NOAA (coastal economics databases), and the National Institute on Aging. The college also received a $300,000 cooperative agreement from the State Department to convene sanctions compliance training workshops and access commercial maritime databases for Russian vessel tracking.

Recent activity shows volatility: 21 awards in 2022, declining to 17 in 2023, recovering to 27 in 2024, then dropping to 7 in 2025 and 10 in early 2026. Only five awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying $141 thousand combined potential value—a modest recompete exposure. The college's sub-award footprint spans 23 awards, predominantly as a sub-recipient on NSF and NIH grants (University of Vermont for space grant and INBRE programs, Emory University on nutrition and health research, Johns Hopkins on volcanic deposit characterization) and as a contractor sub to Institute of International Education on Boren Flagship Grants (July 2025 and July 2024), HII Mission Technologies on Russian-Iranian relationship analysis (November 2023), and Education Development Center on professional services (November 2023).

The college operates under two primary vehicle types: Basic Ordering Agreements with the Navy (BOA N0018916GZ019, 9 task orders, $1.5 million) and the FBI (BOA DJFBI10330, 3 task orders, $509 thousand), and direct awards without vehicle nesting. The college's combined obligated dollars across all awards total $84.5 million against $18.5 million combined potential value—a ratio reflecting historical spend over multi-year grant periods rather than current-period ceiling value.