University Of San Diego

University Of San Diego, doing business as University Of San Diego School Of Law, is a private nonprofit Catholic university that serves the federal government primarily as a recipient of tuition delivery orders and federal research grants, operating as a prime recipient (97% of recent awards) across military education support and academic research programs. The institution competes in full-and-open federal markets without set-aside designations.

The university's federal work splits sharply between two mission areas. First, educational services for Navy personnel dominate the transactional footprint — tuition and allowable fees for Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) midshipmen, Naval Education and Training Command personnel, and Bureau of Medicine and Surgery medical staff. These delivery orders flow under Basic Ordering Agreement N0018919GZ046 (44 task orders, $33.2 million combined potential value), an indefinite-delivery vehicle established February 15, 2026, with a ten-year ordering window through February 14, 2036. Representative Navy education contracts include a $2.5 million delivery order from the Bureau of Naval Personnel for Fall 2025 NROTC midshipmen tuition (May 2026), a $2.2 million order for Spring 2025 NROTC tuition (March 2025), and a $2.1 million Fall 2021 NROTC order (October 2021). The Army Recruiting Command placed a single $120,498 purchase order in May 2026 for personnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, lodging, and training activities in San Diego. Second, the university holds a substantial federal research grant portfolio through the National Science Foundation (50 awards), the Department of Education, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Internal Revenue Service, and other agencies. NSF grants include a $720,641 award for open-source research data infrastructure development (October 2025), a $499,930 cloud-processing smoke simulation project (August 2022), a $499,840 quantum analog simulation program (October 2024), a $448,222 international research experience program for AI and data science training in Sweden (September 2024), and a $417,323 metal-catalyzed borylation chemistry grant (September 2026). The Department of Education funded $272,364 in TRIO Student Support Services (September 2025) and a $580,000 Violence, Inequality, and Power Lab Fellowship (June 2023). The Internal Revenue Service awarded $390,000 for a Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic program (January 2022). The Department of the Navy's Air Education and Training Command placed five awards worth $357,000.

Customer concentration sits with the Department of the Navy across multiple sub-components. The top five agencies account for 55% of recent award count: the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (97 awards, $8.7 million), the Department of the Navy broadly (63 awards, $153,000), the Naval Education and Training Command (58 awards, $5.8 million), the National Science Foundation (50 awards), and the Bureau of Naval Personnel (29 awards, $20.9 million). By potential value, the Bureau of Naval Personnel and its Chief of Naval Personnel sub-component account for $35.6 million of the $54.9 million portfolio (65%), establishing Navy tuition reimbursement as the dominant dollar driver despite NSF's breadth across 50 separate research awards. The 68 distinct customer agencies signal broad federal reach, but Navy education programs anchor the recurring, high-dollar revenue stream.

Activity has remained relatively flat at 16 to 32 awards per year over the past five years (2022–2026), with 541 total awards spanning four decades of history. Seventeen awards face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, representing recompete exposure. The university subcontracts minimally — three percent of the portfolio. Sub-award examples include Carnegie Mellon University ($250,011 for technology development and student mentoring under an Air Force mathematics formalization grant, June 2026) and Washington State University ($250,011 for quantum physics lab development under an NSF quantum simulation grant, October 2024). Grant sub-recipients include Villanova University (mentoring on STEM education research), New York University (restorative justice evaluation), and UC San Diego (oceanographic research).

The university's capability framing derives almost entirely from its role as an accredited educational institution hosting NROTC and delivering tuition services to active-duty military personnel, along with its research mission across chemistry, physics, astronomy, ecology, climate science, education research, and law. The School of Law operates the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic, providing tax representation and advocacy to qualifying low-income taxpayers. NAICS 811 (Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools) covers 220 awards; PSC codes cluster on Education/Training—Tuition/Registration/Membership Fees (257 awards) and Education/Training—Vocational/Technical (28 awards). The university competes across full-and-open mechanisms against no known set-asides, leveraging its nonprofit status and established relationships with Naval personnel commands to sustain recurring tuition orders while pursuing competitive research grants from NSF, DoE, NEH, and other civilian agencies.