University Of Guam

University Of Guam, doing business as UOG, is Guam's only public four-year institution of higher education and the sole land-grant university in the Western Pacific region, operating as a prime recipient on federal grants (94% of 879 awards in recent activity) and a subrecipient on research and workforce development awards. As a publicly controlled state institution headquartered in Mangilao, Guam, UOG competes predominantly in full-and-open federal grant categories rather than set-asides, with no SBA designations applicable to government entities.

UOG's federal work centers on agricultural research, environmental science, invasive species management, and marine resource stewardship delivered through its College of Natural and Applied Sciences (including the Western Pacific Tropical Research Center and AgInnovation Research Center), Cooperative Extension Service, and Sea Grant program. Recent prime grant examples include a $3.596 million Smith-Lever Extension Funding award (CFDA 10.511) from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture to support agricultural extension across a 2.2 million-square-mile Western Pacific service area; a $3.388 million Hatch Act formula grant (CFDA 10.203) supporting agricultural research on aquaculture, food science, pest management, and natural resource conservation conducted across three experiment stations and nine laboratories; a $3.948 million National Science Foundation Integrative Activities award (CFDA 47.083) to build research infrastructure and STEM workforce capacity through the E-CORE RII project; and a $3 million EPA Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grant (CFDA 66.616) under the Inflation Reduction Act to deliver workforce training on environmental justice and climate change in Guam, with $390 thousand flowing to a subrecipient, NIHI Indigenous Media. UOG also holds cooperative agreements supporting invasive species monitoring and control (coconut rhinoceros beetle, brown tree snake, citrus pests, invasive ants, honeybee disease surveillance across Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands), biosecurity training, and forest health protection spanning USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and Department of Interior bureaus.

Customer concentration is distributed across federal research and land-grant support agencies. The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture accounts for 192 awards; USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service carries 132 awards; and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (including Sea Grant cooperative agreements) accounts for 57 awards representing $156 thousand combined potential value. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center anchors the potential-value portfolio with 13 awards valued at $3.3 million. The Department of the Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Command has placed 36 awards ($568 thousand combined value) supporting marine resource monitoring, facility management, and environmental education within Jurisdictional Range Mariana on military properties. UOG serves 81 distinct federal customer agencies across research, education, extension, and community development missions.

On contract vehicles, UOG holds task-order authority under the Indefinite Delivery Contract N6274208A1932 (4 task orders, $203 thousand combined potential value) supporting Naval Facilities Engineering Command work and participates in cooperative agreements with NOAA, NSF, USDA, USDI, EPA, and other agencies rather than through government-wide acquisition vehicles. Recent prime contract work includes small purchase orders: a $24,883 firm-fixed-price order from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 (awarded June 2026, completing December 2026) for algae analysis supporting Hawaiian Pacific Islands wildlife management in Honolulu; a $316,628 water resource advisor services contract from Naval Facilities Engineering Command (awarded May 2024, completing September 2025); and a $1 million NASA Guam EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Development cooperative agreement (awarded May 2022, completing May 2027) for research infrastructure development.

Activity shows healthy engagement with 43–55 awards annually over the past five years (2022–2025), though 2026 is incomplete at 12 awards. Combined obligated dollars ($469.5 million) substantially exceed combined potential value ($4.5 million), indicating heavy draw-down of multiyear awards. Seventy-four awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $1.7 million), representing moderate recompete exposure across agricultural research, extension, and invasive species management grants. UOG serves as subrecipient on research consortia led by University of Hawaii, Washington State University, Montana State University, and other land-grant networks, handling co-investigator roles in marine science, food systems, and agricultural workforce development. As the institutional backbone of federal research and extension programming across Guam and Micronesia, UOG operates with long-term formula funding from USDA and NOAA paired with project-based awards for capacity-building, disaster recovery infrastructure, and regional biosecurity initiatives.