University Enterprises Corporation At Csusb

University Enterprises Corporation At Csusb, doing business as Calif State University, is a tax-exempt, non-profit educational institution and Hispanic-Serving Institution that acts as the federal grant recipient for California State University, San Bernardino, delivering research, education, and workforce development services to federal agencies as a prime recipient across 75 distinct agencies. The organization operates as a grant recipient (not a prime contractor) and competes in full-and-open federal funding without set-asides.

The portfolio is heavily concentrated in federal research grants, particularly STEM education, life sciences research, and cybersecurity workforce development. Representative work spans National Science Foundation grants for AI curriculum development ($2.132 billion for cybersecurity scholars with AI integration, NSF STEM Education program, FY2026–2030), National Institutes of Health biomedical research on hunger and satiety mechanisms using virtual reality ($549,602, NIDDK program, FY2026–2029), and Department of Defense cybersecurity workforce infrastructure ($7.239 million to establish the Cyber Workforce Community National Center, CFDA 12.905, FY2025–2028). The organization also holds a $961,653.50 Department of Homeland Security contract (sole-source, definitive contract) to develop micro-challenges for the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity Program's NICE Challenge Project.

Customer concentration is broad across research and education-focused agencies. The top five funding sources by award count account for 43% of recent awards: the Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education (43 awards), the National Science Foundation (35 awards), the Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (17 awards), the Small Business Administration's Office of Entrepreneurial Development (15 awards), and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences at NIH (14 awards). The gap between volume and dollar rankings reveals that NSF and NIH grants tend to carry higher individual award values, while education and SBA programs distribute funding across more numerous smaller grants. NASA's Shared Services Center anchors 14 awards totaling $1.2 million in combined potential value, primarily for planetary atmospheric research.

Activity has grown modestly — 18 awards in 2022 to 23 in 2024 — then declined to 19 in 2025 and 7 in the first two months of 2026; 21 awards face ultimate completion inside the next 24 months, representing recompete exposure. Across the entire portfolio, 270 awards (93%) are prime grants or contracts; 20 (7%) are sub-awards under other recipients. The portfolio spans 290 total awards with a combined stated potential value of $3.8 million, though obligated dollars across all awards total $278.7 million, reflecting the heavily grant-funded character of the footprint and mature, multi-year commitments.

SCI-reported service-contract invoicing covers only four federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold (prime records only, FY2022–FY2023), with $2.3 million in total invoiced amount: $349 thousand in FY2022 (1.6 FTEs) and $1.9 million in FY2023 (8.4 FTEs). Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable work ran around $105/hr median, with senior labor pricing through $112.87/hr at the 90th percentile. The SCI dataset captures a narrow slice of the organization's federal services activity and excludes the bulk of its grant-funded research operations. The organization performs subcontract work under prime recipients including Scripps Research Institute (multi-year research support), San Diego State University Foundation (HIV prevention research), and the Mathematical Association of America (summer undergraduate research program support); sub-hours represent a negligible share of SCI-reportable prime work, indicating that the organization builds its own delivery teams on federal service contracts.

The grant-recipient posture distinguishes this entity from contract-focused vendors. Federal research funding, particularly in life sciences, geosciences, and STEM education, drives the portfolio. Place of performance centers on Verdemont, California (the San Bernardino campus administrative site) with subordinate performance at regional and partner institution locations. The organization has operated continuously since at least 2002 and maintains a 15-year track record in federal cybersecurity and workforce preparation initiatives, positioning it as an embedded partner in federal education and research infrastructure rather than as a competitive vendor seeking task orders on government-wide vehicles.