College Of William And Mary

The College of William & Mary, a state-controlled public research university headquartered in Williamsburg, Virginia, acts as a prime recipient and contractor on federal grants and contracts spanning research, education, and professional services across scientific and technical domains. The institution competes in full-and-open procurements without set-aside protections and operates as a non-profit educational entity eligible for direct federal funding streams.

The college delivers concrete capabilities in basic and applied research across physics, computer science, chemistry, biology, environmental science, and engineering; specialized educational services including degree programs and professional development; and technical consulting and field research in oceanography, wildlife biology, and geospatial analysis. Representative recent work includes a $2.5 million firm-fixed-price Air Force contract for tracking and analyzing official sector financial flows (awarded September 2022), a $136 thousand Naval Sea Systems Command purchase order for reliability and statistical methodology work (awarded November 2025), a $2.89 million Department of Education grant for civics and history teacher training titled "We the Teachers: Preparing the Next Generation Through History & Civics" (awarded October 2025), and a $500 thousand NSF award for next-generation metadata management infrastructure for scientific data discovery (awarded August 2026). The college acts as a sub-recipient on multiple research collaborations and holds sub-positions on Small Business Technology Transfer Phase II contracts under Aptima Inc. as prime.

Customer concentration is broad and research-driven. The National Science Foundation leads by award count with 211 awards, followed by the Naval Education and Training Command (45 awards, $2.4 million combined potential value) and the Department of the Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command (32 awards, $147.3 million combined potential value), which anchors the dollar concentration sharply. The Navy portfolio consists primarily of educational tuition-and-fees delivery orders and a $147.05 million indefinite-delivery vehicle for the United States Naval Community College Partnerships program, under which the college provides educational services to naval personnel, veterans, and families. NASA ranks third by count (53 awards) but carries modest dollars ($663 thousand combined potential value). The two rankings reflect a characteristic split: NSF and other civilian research agencies drive volume through competitive research grants, while Department of the Navy drives most program value through the single large educational partnership IDIQ.

The college holds the $147.05 million Navy IDIQ and a $997,471 DARPA Other Transaction Agreement for the EMHAT Phase 1 / VIRT-LAB (Virtual Human-AI Teaming Lab) program (awarded April 2024). Task order activity under the Navy vehicle and related IDIQs constitutes the highest-value standing procurement channel. The college also appears on multiple NSF parent vehicles for research (space science, advanced cyberinfrastructure, mathematical and physical sciences programs) and holds cooperative study unit agreements with the National Park Service for archaeological and natural resource research.

Awards per year have declined modestly from a peak of 60 in 2022 to 31 in 2025, reflecting typical grant funding cycles rather than strategic retrenchment. Thirty-seven awards carrying $2.9 million in combined potential value face completion within the next twenty-four months, representing routine annual recompete exposure in the research grant portfolio. The college's federal footprint is dominated by research grants (over 200 NSF awards alone), with education-focused contracts and cooperative agreements comprising the remaining significant share.

As a U.S. state government entity and accredited institution of higher learning, the college operates across all civilian federal research agencies, the Department of Defense through directed educational partnerships and research contracts, and the Department of the Interior through resource-management and archaeological cooperative agreements. The institution competes directly without SBA certifications or set-aside eligibility. Federal obligations across all awards total $330.7 million against $164.6 million in combined potential value, indicating substantial prior-year execution and multi-year funding patterns typical of research universities.