The Trustees Of The Stevens Institute Of Technology

The Trustees Of The Stevens Institute Of Technology, a private research university headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey, serves as a prime contractor and grant recipient across federal defense, civilian research, and educational missions, with a footprint spanning 1,388 prime awards and 69 sub-awards across 109 distinct customer agencies totaling $1.17 billion in combined potential value.

Stevens operates exclusively in full-and-open competition, holding no SBA set-asides. The institution anchors its federal presence on a single-award, $520 million Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Office of the Secretary of Defense as prime contractor and University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) operator for the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC), a network of 20+ universities conducting over $50 million in annual research expenditures. This vehicle has generated 112 task orders valued at $41.7 million since September 2024, establishing the foundation for Stevens' defense research portfolio. Additional parent IDCs include a $116.5 million Army RDECOM contract (73 task orders), a $33.4 million Army contracting command vehicle (80 task orders), and a Basic Ordering Agreement with the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate for counter-UAS and systems engineering services.

Stevens' customer concentration is dominated by defense: the Office of the Secretary of Defense leads with 222 awards and $972 million combined potential value, followed by the Department of the Army (158 awards) and the Department of the Navy (131 awards), collectively representing the majority of prime contract dollar exposure. The National Science Foundation anchors the civilian grant footprint with 231 awards across multiple directorates (Division of Computer and Network Systems, Division of Civil Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation, Division of Mathematical Sciences, and others). Recent OSD delivery orders exemplify Stevens' core research domains: a $24.5 million award for Defense Civilian Training Corps Systems Engineering Research Center tasks (August 2025), a $18.6 million effort supporting Americas Midband Initiative Team spectrum and advanced training technology (September 2024), a $9.68 million program management award for SERC operations through August 2029 (September 2024), and a $6.1 million delivery order for the Acquisition Innovation Research Center (April 2026). Other representative prime work includes a $14.98 million Army RDECOM definitive contract for quantum and artificial intelligence technologies for next-generation armament systems (October 2023, ultimate completion October 2028), a $1.25 million SERDP cost-no-fee definitive contract for green remediation of PFAS in soil and water (January 2023, completion January 2027), and a $900,000 NOAA Cooperative Agreement for coastal flooding prediction and management (March 2025, completion August 2028).

Stevens holds a substantial NSF grant portfolio concentrated in CAREER awards, collaborative research, and engineering research initiation projects. Notable recent awards include: a $657,779 CAREER project (May 2026–April 2031) on human-cyber-physical systems interaction-driven coadaptation for resilient infrastructure; a $550,000 CAREER award (November 2025–October 2030) for data-driven prioritization and control of disinfection byproducts in drinking water; a $650,081 CAREER grant (July 2023–May 2029) on non-local metamaterials and metasurfaces for non-reciprocal acoustic devices; and a $545,650 Faculty Early Career Development grant (September 2026–August 2031) for modeling trust dynamics in human-AI collaboration during engineering design. NSF-funded collaborative research includes a $600,000 physics-informed neural networks project for wireless interconnect synthesis (October 2025–September 2029), a $599,979 cooperative agreement for wireless research access programmable systems (September 2025–August 2028), and a $728,000 NIFA award (February 2026–January 2029) for food quality evaluation using deep learning and digital twin technology.

Stevens also operates as a sub-recipient on federally funded research centers and collaborative initiatives. It serves as a sub-awardee to Columbia University on multiple NIH and NSF projects, including work on tissue engineering resource centers, walking-related digital biomarkers in progressive neuromuscular disorders, and coastal adaptation decision support frameworks. The institution receives sub-awards from the University of Delaware, MIT, University of Alabama, Rutgers, University of Minnesota, and other research institutions, typically performing specialized engineering, modeling, and data analytics tasks supporting larger multi-institutional consortia.

Recent grant activity shows sustained momentum: 18 awards in 2026 year-to-date (as of July 2026), 65 awards in 2025, and 83 awards in 2024. Sixty-six awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $70.1 million, indicating significant recompete exposure across the Systems Engineering Research Center task orders, Army research contracts, and NSF-funded projects. Service Contract Inventory data for FY2024 shows $4.8 million in invoiced revenue across 11.9 FTEs on prime contracts, with government-paid hourly rates ranging from $71.27/hr (10th percentile) to $978.62/hr (90th percentile), reflecting a mix of technical labor and senior research faculty and principal investigator time. The vendor reports 11% sub-engagement on prime service contracts.

Stevens' capability portfolio centers on systems engineering research, digital engineering, artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, materials science, biomedical engineering, coastal hazards and flood risk mitigation, infrastructure resilience, and workforce development. The institution frequently partners with peer research universities—including Virginia Tech, Purdue, George Washington University, University of Arizona, University of Southern California, and Michigan Technological University—on complex, multidisciplinary federal research initiatives. All work is performed at Stevens' primary campus in Hoboken, New Jersey, with administrative oversight and strategic research direction aligned to federal priorities in national defense, civilian R&D, and STEM education.