National Advanced Fire Resource Institute

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Advanced Fire Resource Institute is a civilian sub-agency within the Forest Service that procures training, technical assistance, and specialized fire-management services to support the agency's wildfire prevention and response capabilities. The National Advanced Fire Resource Institute operates as a specialized contracting and program-delivery arm focused on advancing fire science and operational capacity across the federal fire-management enterprise.

The Institute has awarded 107 federal contracts since 2005, with a combined potential value of $4.2 million and $2.5 million in obligated dollars. Recent activity has been sparse: 1 award in 2020, 2 in 2021, 8 in 2022, 4 in 2023, no recorded awards in 2024, and 1 award recorded as of October 2025. Across the portfolio history, 53 distinct prime contractors have been awarded work.

Contract competition is concentrated among a small set of vendors over the last five years. Omna International LLC dominates by both award count and potential value, holding 8 awards worth $1.6 million combined potential value. J Foster & Associates LLC is second with 4 awards and $805 thousand combined potential value. Mission-Centered Solutions, Inc. and Hexagon US Federal, Inc. account for the remaining recent awards. The top four primes collectively cover 63 percent of combined potential value in recent awards.

Set-asides are minimal across the portfolio. Seventy-eight percent of awards carry no set-aside designation, while 21 percent are small-business awards. One competitive 8(a) award and one partial small-business award round out the mix. The Institute's contracting footprint is heavily concentrated among unrestricted awards to established vendors rather than emerging or designated small businesses.

No recent contract opportunities are recorded in the Institute's public solicitation activity. The most recent award date is October 22, 2025, indicating current transactional activity, but no open solicitations are reported against the Institute or its descendant offices as of the current portfolio snapshot.