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MISSISSIPPI ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NETWORK (MAIN) --- THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, THROUGH THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (MDEQ), WILL BE THE RECIPIENT OF THE RESTORE ACT SPILL IMPACT COMPONENT FUNDS FOR THE MISSISSIPPI ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NETWORK (MAIN) PROJECT. UNDER A SUBAWARD WITH MDEQ, MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE (MGCCC) WILL IMPLEMENT THIS PROJECT. THE PROJECT WILL SUPPORT WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AND JOB CREATION WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) IN THE GULF COAST REGION THROUGH THE MGCCC, WHICH WOULD PROVIDE WORKFORCE TRAINING TO STUDENTS IN EMERGING AI TECHNOLOGIES. MAIN IS A GROUNDBREAKING STATEWIDE COALITION OF MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, ESTABLISHED TO POSITION THE STATE'S EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AT THE FOREFRONT OF AI AWARENESS, TRAINING, AND IMPLEMENTATION WITHIN BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY. MAIN IS THE FIRST STATEWIDE COALITION OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE NATION DEDICATED SOLELY TO AI. THIS PROJECT WILL ALLOW MGCCC TO SUPPORT WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BY FUNDING INDUSTRY TRAINING, STAFF, AND ASSOCIATED ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT, EQUIPMENT, SOFTWARE LICENSES, OPERATIONAL COSTS, IT INFRASTRUCTURE, AND OTHER RELATED EXPENSES.

Project Grant (B) · Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council · to Department of Environmental Quality Mississippi (UEI W5BGFCYALNM6) · data as of 2026-09-30

Obligated to date$6.78M1 action

Period2025-11-12 → 2025-11-12first to last action

Passed on$6.49Mto 1 subrecipient

What it is

Program: Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council Oil Spill Impact Program (Assistance Listing 87.052)
Where the work is: Harrison, MS · district MS-04
Topics: artificial_intelligence

Obligations by fiscal year

FY2026$6.78M

SpendQuery holds FY2023 on; earlier years are on USAspending.gov.

Subrecipients: where the money went next

1 subaward totaling $6.49M (95.7% of what was obligated), as Department of Environmental Quality Mississippi reported them. Primes report subawards of $30,000 or more; smaller ones and unreported ones aren't here.

Subrecipient	Amount	Subawards	Where	First	Last
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College	$6.49M	1	MS	2026-04-23	2026-04-23

The largest single subawards

Date	To	Amount	For
2026-04-23	Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College	$6.49M	THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO ESTABLISH A DEDICATED AI TRAINING AND RESEARCH HUB AT MGCCC, SERVING AS A MODEL FOR FUTURE AI CENTERS ACROSS MISSISSIPPI. THIS PROJECT IS NOT FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.

Every action

1 action since 2025-11-12. Each is a modification or amendment with the money it added or took back.

Date	Amendment	Kind	Amount	What the agency wrote
2025-11-12	0	New award	$6.78M	MISSISSIPPI ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NETWORK (MAIN) --- THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, THROUGH THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (MDEQ), WILL BE THE RECIPIENT OF THE RESTORE ACT SPILL IMPACT COMPONENT FUNDS FOR THE MISSISSIPPI ARTIFICIAL…

Source: USAspending.gov prime award transactions and FSRS subaward reports, as loaded by SpendQuery (data as of 2026-09-30). Amounts are obligations (money committed), not outlays. The official record on USAspending.gov ↗