Federal contractor · STATESBORO, GA

GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH & SERVICE FOUNDATION INC

GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH & SERVICE FOUNDATION INC received $460.5K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 3 awards (+368% vs FY2025). Since FY2024: $665.5K. Its largest customer was Federal Railroad Administration ($335.5K). It also received $5.1M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$460.5K
New awards
3
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
73%
UEI
FL4AUYLFP7E8
Other than small businessNonprofit
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 106.6KFY2024
  2. 98.4KFY2025
  3. 460.5KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Federal Railroad Administration$335.5K73%
    2 awards
  2. Department of the Army$125K27%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$460.5K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Bulloch County, GA$460.5K100%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition73%
    US 39% · $335.5K
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions73%
    US 8.7% · $335.5K
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Largest awards

  1. THE MISSION OF THIS PROJECT IS TO REVOLUTIONIZE TRAIN MECHANICAL INSPECTION PROCESSES BY INTEGRATING CUTTING-EDGE TECHNOLOGIES, SUCH AS ROBOTICS, AI-DRIVEN ANALYTICS, AND ADVANCED SENSORS, TO ENHANCE SAFETY, EFFICIENCY, AND RELIABILITY IN THE RAILROA$335.5K
    Federal Railroad Administration· Bulloch County, GA· Research & development· Sep 28, 2026 – Sep 28, 2026· 693JJ626C000026
  2. SERDP PROJECT WP25-0283 "IONIC LIQUIDS: A GREEN AND COST-EFFECTIVE METHOD TO SEPARATE FLUOROPOLYMERS FROM METAL POWDERS"$250K
    Department of the Army· Bulloch County, GA· Research & development· Apr 22, 2025 – Jun 11, 2026· W912HQ25P0042
  3. THIS BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (BAA) SUPPORTS THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (DOT), OFFICE OF RESEARCH, DATA, AND INNOVATION (RDI) TO SERVE THE RAIL INDUSTRY BY INCREASING RAILROAD CAREER AWARENESS IN STUDENTS WITH AN EMPHASIS ON DIVERSE STUDE$79.9K
    Federal Railroad Administration· Bulloch County, GA· Research & development· Aug 27, 2024 – Sep 29, 2026· 693JJ624C000032

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH & SERVICE FOUNDATION INC received $5.1M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 34 actions (12 new awards), −55% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 93.241 · State Rural Hospital Flexibility Program ($1M).

Assistance · FY2026
$5.1M
New awards
12
Actions
34
Since FY2021
$45.6M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 2.2MFY2021
  2. 6.7MFY2022
  3. 15.3MFY2023
  4. 4.9MFY2024
  5. 11.4MFY2025
  6. 5.1MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$5.1M100%

Top programs

  1. 93.241 · State Rural Hospital Flexibility Program$1M20%
  2. 93.912 · Rural Healthcare Services Programs$750K15%
  3. 93.247 · Advanced Nursing Education Workforce Grant Program$645.7K13%
  4. 93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training$598.1K12%
  5. 84.042 · Trio Student Support Services$543.8K11%
  6. 94.016 · Americorps Seniors Senior Companion Program (SCP) 94.016$378K7.4%
  7. 93.732 · Mental and Behavioral Health Education and Training Grants$310.3K6.1%
  8. 47.076 · Stem Education (Formerly Education and Human Resources)$255.3K5.0%

Awarding agencies

  1. Health Resources and Services Administration$2.5M49%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  2. National Institutes of Health$1.2M23%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  3. Department of Education$526.7K10%
  4. Corporation for National and Community Service$378K7.4%
  5. National Science Foundation$305K6.0%
  6. National Park Service$86.6K1.7%
    Department of the Interior
  7. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention$71K1.4%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  8. National Endowment for the Arts$33K0.6%

Largest awards

  1. SCHOLARSHIPS FOR DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS$3.7M
    93.925 · Scholarships for Health Professions Students From Disadvantaged Backgrounds· Health Resources and Services Administration· Project grant· Dec 16, 2020 – Jul 22, 2026· T0831814
  2. TARGETED TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR RURAL HOSPITALS PROGRAM - TITLE: TARGETED TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR RURAL HOSPITALS PROGRAM: A…$3.4M
    93.241 · State Rural Hospital Flexibility Program· Health Resources and Services Administration· Project grant· Jul 21, 2023 – Aug 25, 2026· U2B49923
  3. SCHOLARSHIPS FOR DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS$3.1M
    93.925 · Scholarships for Health Professions Students From Disadvantaged Backgrounds· Health Resources and Services Administration· Project grant· Nov 17, 2020 – Jun 12, 2026· T0831813
  4. ADVANCED NURSING EDUCATION WORKFORCE$2.6M
    93.247 · Advanced Nursing Education Workforce Grant Program· Health Resources and Services Administration· Project grant· Jun 23, 2023 – Jun 23, 2026· T9449344
  5. CHILD CARE ACCESS MEANS PARENTS IN SCHOOL (CCAMPIS) PROGRAM$1.6M
    84.335 · Child Care Access Means Parents in School· Department of Education· Project grant· Sep 26, 2023 – Sep 9, 2026· P335A230033
  6. TRIO REGULAR STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES - ARMSTRONG/LIBERTY CAMPUSES$1.3M
    84.042 · Trio Student Support Services· Department of Education· Project grant· Aug 17, 2021 – Aug 11, 2026· P042A201456

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-contracts: $20.7K (1 subaward)
  • Sub-grants: $3.2M (13 subawards)

7 primes

  1. ADVANCED ROBOTICS FOR MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE$1.6M49%
    PITTSBURGH, PA · 1 subaward
  2. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$600K18%
    WASHINGTON, DC · 1 subaward
  3. AUBURN UNIVERSITY$460K14%
    AUBURN UNIVERSITY, AL · 1 subaward
  4. UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.$389.6K12%
    ATHENS, GA · 7 subawards
  5. UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA$127.6K3.9%
    ATHENS, GA · 2 subawards
  6. VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY$68.6K2.1%
    RICHMOND, VA · 1 subaward
  7. GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC$20.7K0.6%
    ATLANTA, GA · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $1.2M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $1M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $951.5K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $845.3K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $513.9K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $3.3M received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

30 companies · $7.8M reported

  1. ADVANCED ROBOTICS FOR MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE$1.6M
    PITTSBURGH, PA · 1 subaward
  2. UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.$1.4M
    ATHENS, GA · 21 subawards
  3. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$600K
    WASHINGTON, DC · 1 subaward

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 2 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD$405.4K−100% in FY2026
    SHEFFIELD, GBR · 61% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Railroad Administration · Scientific research and development servicesArmy · Scientific research and development services
  2. WABTEC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, LLC$515.6K
    ERIE, PA · 62% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Railroad Administration · Scientific research and development services
  3. VTECH B.V.$358.4K0% in FY2026
    ROTTERDAM, NLD · 54% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Railroad Administration · Scientific research and development services

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Matched organizations

  • GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITYAI match · 98%
Lobbying · 2025
$200K
4 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$700K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$200K
    4 reports
  2. 2024$200K
    4 reports
  3. 2025$200K
    4 reports
  4. 2026$100K
    2 reports

Top issues

  1. Budget and appropriations14 reports
  2. Defense5 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES14 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE14 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

  1. TROUTMAN STRATEGIES$700K
    14 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Oct 5, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.