University Corporation For Advanced Internet Development

University Corporation For Advanced Internet Development (Internet2), a non-profit advanced networking consortium based in Washington, DC, provides high-performance wide-area-network connectivity, data-center colocation, identity management services, and research cyberinfrastructure support to federal agencies as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) and occasional subcontractor. Internet2 competes on full-and-open basis across all federal work; no set-aside designations apply to its award footprint.

Internet2's federal contracting portfolio concentrates heavily on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which accounts for 90 awards and $202.7 million of combined potential value—representing 54% of award count and 92% of total portfolio value. The vendor's second-tier customers by award count are the National Science Foundation (32 awards, $78 thousand), Naval Education and Training Command (26 awards, $890 thousand), National Institute of Standards and Technology (22 awards, $1.1 million), and NASA Shared Services Center (19 awards, $429 thousand). This concentration underscores NOAA's dependence on Internet2 for networking backbone infrastructure and the vendor's specialization in connectivity and colocation services rather than transactional IT purchases.

Capability work spans three main service categories: (1) wide-area networking and connectivity—exemplified by a $3.914 million August 2025 NOAA delivery order for N-Wave connectivity and colocation services at the Washington, DC facility, and a $1.274 million September 2025 USDA contract for Scientific Computing Initiative Network (SCINet) and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services connectivity; (2) identity and access management through the InCommon federated certificate service, delivered under sole-source awards averaging $14,000 to $62,000 annually to USU, NIST, Navy Training Command, and NSF; and (3) research cyberinfrastructure and professional development, anchored by NSF grant work including a $1.816 million 2026 award to host the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot Annual Meeting and a $249,994 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to scale the Toward Gigabit Libraries Toolkit at tribal, Native Hawaiian, and Native Alaskan libraries.

Internet2 operates under two primary indefinite-delivery contracts with NOAA: IDC 1305M419DNAAJ0030 carrying 52 delivery task orders valued at $69.4 million, and IDC DOCDG133013CQ0035 with 26 task orders worth $14.5 million. The vendor also holds seats on smaller IDIQs including VA contract VA200P0019 (2 task orders, $36 thousand) and a Federal Highway Administration BPA. These vehicles anchor the majority of Internet2's federal revenue stream.

Award activity accelerated from 13 awards in 2022 to a peak of 22 in 2024, then moderated to 16 in 2025 and 10 in the first half of 2026. Recompete exposure over the next twenty-four months spans 14 awards with combined potential value of $14.8 million—a modest cliff reflecting the stability of NOAA's standing IDIQ task-order vehicle. The vendor's sub-award footprint is minimal (2% of awards), with recent subcontract engagements under Inuteq, LLC on NASA Advanced Computing Services IDIQ work, and under CGI Federal on legacy D15PD00594 production task orders.

Federal grant work positions Internet2 as an NSF-backed convener and capacity builder for research cyberinfrastructure: prime recipient on $1.816 million NAIRR Pilot conference grants (FY2025–FY2026), a $299,995 NSF EAGER award to empower research computing professionals to broaden NAIRR participation, and a $249,994 IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian award. Internet2 also acts as lead grantee on the Minority Serving Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC)—a multi-year, multi-agency effort with NSF funding running through September 2027 to enhance cyberinfrastructure access at historically Black colleges and universities, tribal colleges, and Hispanic-serving institutions, with sub-recipient support from Carnegie Mellon University and University of South Carolina.

SCI-reported service-contract invoicing on federal contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $23.5 million across FY2022–FY2024 ($6.6 million in FY2022, $8.4 million in FY2023, $8.5 million in FY2024). SCI data captures only a partial view of Internet2's federal services work and excludes goods, products, grants, and non-federal revenue; the organization's $223.7 million combined potential value across all federal awards substantially exceeds SCI-reportable figures. SCI records indicate zero sub-hours share on prime contracts (Internet2 performs delivery in-house), and no meaningful FTE staffing reported to SCI, consistent with the nonprofit's model of operating shared infrastructure and convening communities rather than deploying dedicated labor-hour teams.