Success Stories

Harnessing the power of team based-approaches


We provide every client with the resources they need to be successful in the federal agency marketplace. From proposal ideation to color-team reviews, TIG has developed proven strategies to take its primarily university-based clientele to the next level.

Recent Client Awards

Texas Tech University has announced a partnership with four other institutions of higher education and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to create the NSF Engineering Research Center for Advancing Sustainable and Distributed Fertilizer Production (CASFER). CASFER, headquartered at Texas Tech, received a $26 million grant from the NSF for an initial five-year period with the possibility of renewing the grant for five more years and another $25 million. Texas Tech will lead the collaborative center and is joined by Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Case Western Reserve University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Through a highly competitive process, the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) has awarded more than $13 million to the University of Hawaiʻi and its partners to provide students the opportunity to develop new skills in high-demand areas. UH’s grant, for an initiative called, “Hana Career Pathways,” was part of $126 million awarded from the Education Stabilization Fund of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act in a competition open to all 50 states. There were only eight awardees besides UH, including Alabama, Arkansas, California, Michigan, Nevada, New York and Virginia.

Amy McGovern, a University of Oklahoma professor with dual appointments in the School of Computer Science in the Gallogly College of Engineering and in the School of Meteorology in the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences, will lead the NSF AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography, which received $20 million of the NSF funding. The institute has collaborators from Colorado State University, the University at Albany, the University of Washington, North Carolina State University, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Del Mar College (Corpus Christi), the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Google, IBM, NVIDIA, Disaster Tech, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $115 million over five years to the Quantum Systems Accelerator (QSA), a new research center led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) that will forge the technological solutions needed to harness quantum information science for discoveries that benefit the world. It will also energize the nation’s research community to ensure U.S. leadership in quantum R&D and accelerate the transfer of quantum technologies from the lab to the marketplace. Sandia National Laboratories is the lead partner of the center.

The University of Arizona has been awarded a five-year, $26 million grant from the National Science Foundation, with an additional five-year $24.6 million option, to establish and lead a new National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center – called the Center for Quantum Networks – with core partners Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale University. CQN aims to lay the foundations of the quantum internet, which will revolutionize how humankind computes, communicates and senses the world by creating a fabric to connect quantum computers, data centers and gadgets using their native quantum information states of "quantum bits," or qubits.

National Science Foundation award to University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher Chris Maio will support research and education in western Alaska coastal communities that are affected by severe storms. Maio has been awarded $800,000 to fund studies of storm-driven coastal hazards.

A consortium of Idaho researchers will receive a $20 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to examine how environmental stressors impact the growth, survival and reproduction of native plants and animals. The project, titled “Genes to Environment: Modeling, Mechanisms and Mapping,” is a collaboration between Boise State University, University of Idaho, Idaho State University and numerous state, federal and tribal partners.

Dr. Noa Lincoln, a researcher from the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa received funding to conduct a study on agricultural impacts on Hawaiʻi Island soil. The study, “Soil Pedogenesis, Agroecology and their Interactions,” received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award—a five-year, $825,000 award that will support an interdisciplinary approach to investigation.

Oklahoma Research Team Receives $20 Million National Science Foundation Grant. During the five-year award, a team of 34 researchers from Oklahoma State University, University of Oklahoma, University of Tulsa, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Langston University, East Central University and Noble Research Institute will develop and test science-based solutions for complex problems at the intersection of land use, water availability and infrastructure.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a five-year, $17.6 million grant to the Montana INBRE program to continue its work growing the state’s biomedical research capacity and training new scientists in fields related to human health, Montana State University.

Clemson University received $6 million for research that could help lower that cost of several drugs that run into the thousands of dollars per treatment and fight some of the world’s most debilitating aliments.

The State of Alabama received $20 million from the NSF EPSCoR program to improve the understanding of plasma processes and interactions, which will translate into the development of new technologies with potential for commercialization for aerospace, manufacturing, medicine, agriculture and food safety.

The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Rhode Island a $19 million grant to establish a statewide research consortium — the RI Consortium for Coastal Ecology Assessment, Innovation, and Modeling (RI C-AIM) — to study the effects of climate variability on coastal ecosystems.

Dr. Georgina Gibson, from the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ International Arctic Research Center, will research dissolved organic matter at the interface of arctic land and ocean through a new NSF EPSCoR RII Track-4 Fellowships award.

Iowa State University established a new National Science Foundation Innovation Corps site to act as a training ground for faculty, postdoctoral and graduate students to transition their ideas from the laboratory to the marketplace.

The University of Rhode Island received $8 million from the National Institute of Environment Health Sciences to move into the forefront of research institutions committed to revealing more about the Fluorinated pollutants, or poly- and perfluorinated alkyl substances, in partnerships with Harvard University and the Silent Spring Institute.

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TIG has particular competence in working with Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) and Native Hawaiian and Alaskan populations to conceptualize proposals that advance opportunities for underserved populations.

The University of Guam has been awarded a $2.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to help grow the number and diversity of students who are interested in and eventually seek careers in STEM fields. This grant is part of the $17 million in total grant funding being managed by the University of Guam, $9 million of which is from the National Science Foundation.

The University of Hawaii Community Colleges, in partnership with the University of Hawaii Hilo, received a prestigious National Science Foundation ADVANCE award to support the advancement of women and minorities in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields at its seven community colleges.

Iowa State University NSF CAREER awardee, Dr. Brian Burt, will lead a transformative study on leveraging learning and engineering identity to broaden participation of black males in colleges of engineering.

The University of Albany received a $10 million federal grant from the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities to enable the University to train and hire researchers working to reduce health disparities in minority communities.