Universidade Federal Fluminense

Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), a Brazilian federal research university headquartered in Niterói, acts as a prime recipient of federal research grants in quantum information, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, and marine biology, with no contract prime or subcontract work in the source data. UFF operates as an international, not-for-profit organization and does not compete under SBA set-asides.

UFF's federal footprint is exclusively grant-funded research. The vendor has received fourteen project grants totaling $1.1 million in obligated dollars across four distinct customer agencies since 2009, with activity concentrated in the past five years (two awards in 2023, two in 2025, one each in 2022, 2024, and 2026). The Air Force and the Navy Office of Naval Research dominate the customer base, together accounting for 93% of recent awards—the Department of the Air Force holds seven awards and the Office of Naval Research holds four, with the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command and the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory each holding one. The two rankings diverge modestly; the Air Force's volume lead reflects multiple awards, while ONR's concentration in recent activity points to sustained research partnerships.

Representative grant work includes a Quantum Thermodynamics Conference 2026 award from ONR (ultimate completion January 2027), the IX Paraty Quantum Information Workshop (ONR, completed January 2026), a project grant on distinguishing transverse jet instabilities with data-based reduced order models (Air Force, running through December 2027), an equilibration of isolated quantum systems grant (Air Force, completing January 2027), and a macroalgal microbiomes study focused on the Brazilian Fluminense coast (ONR, running through May 2027). The remaining work addresses acoustic jet diffusion flames (Army Materiel Command, completing September 2026) and a third workshop on quantum information and thermodynamics (Air Force, completed May 2025).

Four awards are slated for completion within the next twenty-four months, representing recompete opportunities. UFF maintains no formal parent vehicles, IDIQs, or standing task-order relationships with federal agencies; each award operates as a discrete project grant. The vendor does not appear in the source as a subcontractor on any federal awards and holds no prime contract positions on vehicles or indefinite-delivery arrangements.