Institute for Simulation and Training (IST) receives external research funding via a variety of funding mechanisms including Contracts, Grants and Cooperative Agreements.

Some of the funding mechanisms currently available include:

• Various Cooperative Agreements with U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Soldier Center.
• Army Research Organization (ARO) Scientific Services Program (SSP) managed by Edmond Scientific Company (Prime).
• Defense Systems Technical Area Tasks (DS TAT) - $3B IDIQ type contract issued by Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). UCF is a subcontractor to AECOM (Prime).
• Homeland Defense and Security Technical Area Tasks (HD TAT) - $900M IDIQ type contract     issued by Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). UCF is a subcontractor to AECOM (Prime).
• Cybersecurity and Information Technical Area Tasks (CS TAT) - $5B IDIQ type contract issued   by Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). UCF is a subcontractor to GTRI (Prime).
• SOCOM Wide Mission Support (SWMS) IDIQ contract. UCF is a subcontractor to CACI (Prime).
• General Services Administration (GSA) – UCF is on the Professional Engineering Schedule (871) Contract# GS-00F-413GA

• MTEC – Member Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium – Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) Consortium (for more info see https://mtec-sc.org/)
• TREX – Member Training and Readiness Accelerator  - Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) Consortium (for more info see https://trainingaccelerator.org/team/)
• C5 – Member C5 Consortium – Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) Consortium (for more info see https://cmgcorp.org/c5/)
• CORNERSTONE – Member Cornerstone Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) Consortium (for more info see  https://ibasp-public.ria.army.mil/cornerstone/)
  

Additionally, funding may be directed to IST via one of the existing Broad Agency Announcements (BAAs):

• Army Research Laboratory Broad Agency Announcement - W911NF-12-R-0011-03