RESEARCH PROJECT MANAGEMENT CONSULTING
The science is yours. The deadlines, deliverables, and reporting are mine.
THE PROBLEM
Fewer people, same deadlines.
Federal cuts pull award management capacity out of R&D teams. The reporting, compliance, and prior approvals did not shrink with them.
WHO I AM
PMP Certified, Federally Funded Research Experience
Energy, engineering, aviation, AI, healthcare, economics, plus a good number of disciplines on either side of those.
WHAT I DO
Capacity support, proposal - closeout
Submission management, deliverable and milestone tracking, reporting, compliance review, and closeout.
Morgan Carver, PMP, MPM
I'm Morgan Carver, a PMP certified senior project manager with close to a decade in federally funded research. My background spans energy, engineering, aviation, AI, healthcare, and economics, plus a good number of disciplines on either side of those.
PMP - Project Management Professional
MPM - Master of Project Management, ASU
7 Years in federally funded research
Published - peer reviewed co author, 2024
Federal funding cuts have reached every discipline, and they've left R&D teams without the award management staff they need to work through bottlenecks, reporting, compliance, and rules that keep changing underneath them. That's the gap I fill. Proposal through closeout, I provide the capacity support your team needs so the people doing the science can stay on the science.
WHO I WORK WITH
Funded research runs the same everywhere.
Universities & Institutes
Departments, centers, and single PIs carrying awards with no dedicated PM.
Nonprofits & Foundations
Federal and private grants run by program staff already at capacity.
Small Business & Contractors
SBIR and STTR awards, plus DOE, DOD, and NASA contracts and subcontracts.
Private R&D Teams
Biotech and corporate labs running funded or internally governed programs.
Engineering
Hardware milestones, phased builds, and multi partner testbeds.
Aviation
Safety research with regulatory reporting and long approval chains.
Energy
DOE awards with cost share, phase gates, and heavy technical reporting.
Health Systems
Clinical and health services research: IRB heavy and multi site.
TRY IT FIRST
A no cost review of one proposal or report.
Before you commit to anything, send me one live proposal or one progress report. I will review it and send back the same risk memo a paying client gets. Your team judges the value on real work, on your own materials, at no cost.
CONFIDENTIALITY GUARANTEED
Carver Aspen Consulting sends a mutual confidentiality agreement before any review, and will sign your institution's blanket vendor or contractor NDA. No proposal content, award details, or institutional information is disclosed to any third party.
Tell Me What is Stuck
NEXT STEP
Thirty minute consultation - no cost, no pitch deck. We talk about what is stalling, and whether I am the right person for it.