University Of Missouri System

University Of Missouri System's Office of Research Administration Division, doing business as University Of Missouri, is a state-controlled 1890 Land Grant College and public research institution that receives federal funding as a prime recipient for academic affiliate services, clinical training, research collaborations, and specialized medical expertise supporting veterans' healthcare, as well as federally funded research and educational programming across the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and other civilian agencies. The institution operates as a prime recipient on grant and contract work; it does not compete under set-asides.

The university's federal footprint centers on research and educational services. Recent prime contract work includes delivery orders under a $417 thousand indefinite delivery contract with Veterans Integrated Service Network 4 (VISN 4) for academic affiliate core services at the Columbia VA Medical Center, with task orders ranging from under $1,000 to over $50,000 and recent awards in February and December 2025 for $9,999.58, $54,483.94, $27,052.72, and $10,000, all completion September 2026. Prime grant work spans scientific research, mental health services, and educational support: a $650 thousand Department of Agriculture award (CFDA 10.310) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative investigating lipid modifications in rice root growth and phosphate deficiency (award date February 15, 2026, completion February 2030); a $558 thousand National Science Foundation grant (CFDA 47.049) for machine learning tools to track solar filaments from curated observations with sub-award to New Jersey Institute of Technology (award date September 1, 2025, completion August 2028); a $486 thousand NSF Division of Biological Infrastructure grant examining character displacement in social wasps with educational components funding nine paid undergraduate research positions (award date August 15, 2025, completion July 2028); and a $779 thousand National Institute of Justice award (CFDA 16.045) supporting a four-year study of community violence intervention implementation in St. Louis (award date January 1, 2024, completion December 2027). The institution also receives educational grants from the Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under TPSID and TRIO programs supporting transition and support services for students with intellectual disabilities and disadvantaged students.

Customer concentration reflects broad federal research agency engagement. The top five funding sources by award count cover 33% of awards: National Science Foundation leads with 86 awards, followed by Veterans Integrated Service Network 4 (24 awards, $739 thousand combined potential value), NIMH (15 awards), NIH broadly (14 awards), and HRSA (13 awards). Across 75 distinct federal customer agencies, the institution manages 458 total awards—87% as prime recipient, 13% as sub-recipient. Recent activity shows growth from twelve awards in 2022 to thirty-eight in 2024, though 2025 and 2026 show moderation at twenty-six and six awards respectively. Combined potential value across all awards totals $1.5 million; combined obligated dollars across all awards reach $210.3 million, reflecting heavy invoiced performance against contracted and granted work.

The university holds positions on multiple parent vehicles. The VA's Indefinite Delivery Contract 36C24E23D0027 anchors the institution's contract work with twenty-three task orders carrying $322 thousand combined potential value. Additional vehicles include Air Force Indefinite Delivery Contract FA821315D0002 for training support, Navy Basic Ordering Agreements N0018910GZ027 and N0001921G0006 with combined seven task orders, and miscellaneous education and research ordering vehicles. Eighteen awards face completion within the next twenty-four months with combined potential value of $105 thousand, representing recompete exposure centered on VA medical training and NIH research continuations.

In its subcontractor role, the university performs research support work on The Boeing Company missile development sub-awards (SLAM ER obsolescence redesign, Lot 91 production long-lead items, JDAM, F-15EX, and Foreign Military Sales Qatar program) dating from September 2023 through April 2026. Prime grant sub-awards to other universities include awards to University of California-Davis, Northwestern University, University of Florida, University of Idaho, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Yale, and Washington University for collaborative research in neurobiology, HIV outcomes, molecular biology, and ecosystem research. The institution partners with Missouri state agencies, local health departments, and community organizations on SAMHSA substance abuse prevention and community violence reduction initiatives, leveraging its Missouri Institute of Mental Health (MIMH) and Child Advocacy Studies (CAST) programs as delivery vehicles for federally funded training, implementation science, and evaluation services. Top NAICS concentration reflects research focus: physical sciences and engineering R&D (24 awards), higher education administration (19 awards), and guided missile and space vehicle manufacturing sub-work (7 awards).