Federal contractor · RAPID CITY, SD

SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES & TECHNOLOGY

SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES & TECHNOLOGY received $5M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 5 awards (−13% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $25.1M. Its largest customer was Department of the Army ($5.4M). It also received $10.7M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$5M
New awards
5
Sole-source
0.5%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 275KFY2017
  2. 275KFY2018
  3. 275KFY2019
  4. 274.5KFY2020
  5. 5.1MFY2021
  6. 1.3MFY2022
  7. 5.7MFY2023
  8. 1.3MFY2024
  9. 5.7MFY2025
  10. 5MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Army$5.4M100%
    2 awards
  2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention$00.0%
    1 awards
  3. Department of the Air Force-$411.9K0.0%
    2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Research & development$4.9M99%
  2. Facilities & utilities$25K0.5%

Where the work was performed

  1. Pennington County, SD$5.3M100%
  2. Charles Mix County, SD$25K0.5%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition0.5%
    US 39% · $25K
  • Sole-source awards0.5%
    US 30% · $25K
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · $0
  • 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.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Department of the Army$25K
    Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. COMMERCIAL SOLUTION OPENING (CSO) TITLED 'OPERATIONAL TRANSITION OF ARCTIC RESILIENT MATERIALS AND MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY' U437A00$6.6M
    Department of the Army· Pennington County, SD· Research & development· Sep 22, 2025 – Apr 6, 2026· W913E525C0017
  2. RAPID SUSTAINMENT OFFICE - MOBILE COLD SPRAY SYSTEM$3.5M
    Department of the Air Force· Pennington County, SD· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 13, 2023 – Dec 10, 2025· FA868423CB003
  3. FY2019 BAA MINING CAPACITY. SBSM&T$1.2M
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention· Pennington County, SD· Research & development· Sep 9, 2019 – May 22, 2026· 75D30119C06090
  4. RETROFITTING STORMWATER POND OUTLETS FOR SURFACE WATER PFAS REMEDIATION$484.6K
    Department of the Air Force· Bexar County, TX· Research & development· Jul 27, 2022 – Mar 10, 2026· FA890322C0031
  5. FORT RANDALL PALEONTOLOGICAL SERVICES$25K
    Department of the Army· Charles Mix County, SD· Facilities & utilities· Feb 27, 2026 – May 19, 2026· W9128F26PA013

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.

SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES & TECHNOLOGY received $10.7M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 111 actions (18 new awards), −33% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 81.135 · Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy ($3.1M).

Assistance · FY2026
$10.7M
New awards
18
Actions
111
Since FY2021
$85.7M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 15.5MFY2021
  2. 12.8MFY2022
  3. 12.5MFY2023
  4. 18.3MFY2024
  5. 15.9MFY2025
  6. 10.7MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$7.8M74%
  2. Direct payments$2.8M26%

Top programs

  1. 81.135 · Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy$3.1M29%
  2. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$2.5M24%
  3. 47.083 · Integrative Activities$1.6M15%
  4. 47.050 · Geosciences$933.9K8.8%
  5. 81.049 · Office of Science Financial Assistance Program$837K7.9%
  6. 47.070 · Computer and Information Science and Engineering$726.5K6.8%
  7. 47.049 · Mathematical and Physical Sciences$559.3K5.3%
  8. 47.041 · Engineering$421.8K4.0%

Awarding agencies

  1. National Science Foundation$4.3M40%
  2. Department of Energy$3.9M37%
  3. Department of Education$2.8M26%
  4. Bureau of Land Management$155K1.5%
    Department of the Interior

Largest awards

  1. RII TRACK-2 FEC: THE ICECUBE EPSCOR INITIATIVE (IEI) - ICECUBE AND THE DATA REVOLUTION$6.6M
    47.083 · Integrative Activities· National Science Foundation· Cooperative agreement· Oct 13, 2020 – Apr 29, 2026· 2019597
  2. INCREASING THE DISCOVERY POTENTIAL OF UNDERGROUND PHYSICS AT SURF AND BEYOND$6.2M
    81.049 · Office of Science Financial Assistance Program· Department of Energy· Project grant· Jun 23, 2021 – Apr 30, 2026· DESC0014223
  3. EXPANDQISE: TRACK 2: QUANTUM MATERIALS INSTITUTE: 2D MATERIALS, HETEROSTRUCTURES AND METASURFACES FOR COMPACT, EFFICIENT ENTANGLED…$5M
    47.049 · Mathematical and Physical Sciences· National Science Foundation· Project grant· Aug 28, 2024 – Jan 26, 2026· 2427079
  4. SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY PROJECT TITLE: RAPID ADAPTIVE PRESCREENING AND INTEGRATED DOWNHOLE SENSING FOR RARE EARTH…$3.1M
    81.135 · Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy· Department of Energy· Cooperative agreement· Jul 15, 2026 – Jul 15, 2026· DEAR0002165
  5. NRT: TRAINING SCIENTISTS TO SOLVE BIOFILM CHALLENGES USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND SMART MATERIALS -THIS NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION…$3M
    47.076 · Stem Education (Formerly Education and Human Resources)· National Science Foundation· Project grant· Aug 1, 2025 – Dec 11, 2025· 2510643
  6. COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: RII FEC: ADVANCING QUALITY AND CLIMATE-RESILIENT WATER MANAGEMENT WITH COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS AND ENHANCED SENSOR…$2.7M
    47.083 · Integrative Activities· National Science Foundation· Cooperative agreement· Jul 22, 2024 – Jul 8, 2026· 2418752

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

  • Sub-grants: $203K (2 subawards)

2 sub-recipients

  1. OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE$186.3K92%
    KYLE, SD · 1 subaward
  2. WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION$16.7K8.2%
    WOODS HOLE, MA · 1 subaward

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-contracts: $34.9K (1 subaward)
  • Sub-grants: $3.8M (15 subawards)

9 primes

  1. SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY$1.4M36%
    BROOKINGS, SD · 5 subawards
  2. THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$800.7K21%
    BALTIMORE, MD · 1 subaward
  3. THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA$701.6K18%
    VERMILLION, SD · 4 subawards
  4. BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA$690K18%
    LINCOLN, NE · 1 subaward
  5. PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$58.9K1.6%
    HERSHEY, PA · 1 subaward
  6. NATIONAL COLLEGIATE INVENTORS & INNOVATORS ALLIANCE, INC.$50K1.3%
    AMHERST, MA · 1 subaward
  7. BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY$50K1.3%
    SPEARFISH, SD · 1 subaward
  8. UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE$46K1.2%
    NEWARK, DE · 1 subaward
  9. BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE$34.9K0.9%
    COLUMBUS, OH · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $1.5M paid out · $2.5M received
  • FY2022: $16K paid out · $2.9M received
  • FY2023: $1.3M paid out · $4.6M received
  • FY2024: $2.7M paid out · $5.2M received
  • FY2025: $949.8K paid out · $3.2M received
  • FY2026: $203K paid out · $3.8M 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

24 companies · $6.7M reported

  1. UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE$900.2K
    NEWARK, DE · 2 subawards
  2. UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM$794.1K
    BIRMINGHAM, AL · 3 subawards
  3. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH INC$710.3K
    LAWRENCE, KS · 2 subawards

Primes that pay it

31 companies · $22.2M reported

  1. STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA-DIVISION OF OASI$7.2M
    PIERRE, SD · 10 subawards
  2. THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA$2.2M
    VERMILLION, SD · 5 subawards
  3. KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY$1.8M
    MANHATTAN, KS · 4 subawards

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 5 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. THERMOANALYTICS, INC.$10.2M−96% in FY2026
    CALUMET, MI · 76% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development services
  2. QWK INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS, LLC$10.6M−13% in FY2026
    HUNTSVILLE, AL · 76% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development services
  3. PEAK NANO OPTICS LLC$11.1M−100% in FY2026
    RICHARDSON, TX · 76% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · 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.

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.