University Of Louisiana At Monroe

University Of Louisiana At Monroe, a state educational institution headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, operates as a federal grant recipient and cooperative-agreement holder, conducting research and delivering workforce development and educational support services across environmental science, atmospheric sciences, health professions, and small business development. As a child entity of the Louisiana Board Of Regents, ULM competes as a prime recipient on federal grants and cooperative agreements (89% of recent awards) rather than as a federal contractor; the institution does not hold federal contract vehicles and performs minimal service-contract work captured in the Service Contract Inventory.

ULM's federal grant footprint spans eleven funding agencies over the past five years, anchored by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Department of Education, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Customer concentration by award count sits with the Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education (13 awards), NOAA (8 awards, $45 thousand combined potential value), and Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 (7 awards, $59 thousand combined potential value), though NOAA's combined potential value of $179 thousand dominates the top-customer ranking by dollars. The source reports combined obligated dollars across all awards of $179.1 million against a combined potential value of $415 thousand, indicating substantial performance against multi-year grant agreements with fixed annual funding allocations rather than ceiling values. ULM holds no government-wide acquisition vehicles; a single instance of the Electronic Commodities Store III appears in the vehicle listing, likely representing a micro-purchase or incidental transaction rather than a framework agreement.

ULM's research and educational work includes a $66.766 thousand NOAA cooperative agreement (awarded June 1, 2024, completion September 30, 2028) to conduct research and improve understanding of Global Precipitation Measurement radiometer measurements through atmospheric modeling and radiative transfer simulations. The institution received a $379.887 thousand National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems project grant (CFDA 47.041, awarded August 15, 2026, completion July 31, 2029) for fundamental research on freeze-induced protein instability in cryopreservation, supporting graduate and undergraduate student training and high school outreach in interfacial engineering. ULM is recipient on a $2.999 million Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration WIOA Dislocated Worker National Reserve Demonstration grant (CFDA 17.280, awarded September 30, 2023, completion September 30, 2026) to deliver the High School Business Academy 2023–2026 program, providing business education and paid internships to approximately 1,800 high school students across eleven Northeast Louisiana counties in Appalachian, Delta, and Northern Border regions. The institution also received a $1.875 million SBA Office of the Chief Operating Officer Congressional Grant (CFDA 59.059, July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2029) to support small business development, entrepreneurship initiatives, business counseling, technical assistance, and workforce training in the Monroe area.

ULM operates as a sub-recipient on federal grant awards through partnerships with Louisiana State University (Small Business Development Center program services under SBA SBDC network authorization), Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism (historic preservation and archaeological survey work at Poverty Point and other sites), Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (alligator snapping turtle population assessment), Purdue University (socially transformative engineering pedagogy), and LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans (health-related research extensions). The sub-award pattern reflects ULM's role as a regional educational and research hub embedded in state and federal networks rather than as a commercial subcontractor.

Activity has remained modest and episodic: twelve awards in 2022, declining to seven in 2025 and three by mid-2026. Six awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, though the recompete signal is limited given ULM's character as a grant recipient rather than a competitive contractor. SCI-reported service-contract activity is negligible — two records spanning FY2022–FY2024 as a named subcontractor, with roughly 2.5 and 1.5 FTEs in those fiscal years respectively — reflecting that the institution's federal footprint is almost entirely grants, cooperative agreements, and educational support rather than commercial service contracting. ULM's research portfolio is concentrated in environmental monitoring, atmospheric science, public health workforce development, and small business support, with secondary exposure to oncology research, wildlife management, and engineering education innovation. The institution's federal business model centers on securing direct-grant funding and collaborative sub-awards rather than pursuing large prime contracts or IDIQs.