Air National Guard

The Department of the Air Force Air National Guard is a component of the Department of Defense that procures and funds equipment, services, and infrastructure for the Air National Guard's operational readiness and state-based military operations. The Air National Guard executes both contract procurement and grant-based funding to support its 54 state, territory, and district wings.

The Air National Guard maintains a large contract footprint, with 170,051 total federal contract awards since 1983 and a combined potential value of $18.02 billion, of which $17.95 billion has been obligated. Recent contract activity has moderated: the agency issued 2,050 awards in 2022, 2,264 in 2023, 2,012 in 2024, 1,593 in 2025, and 602 year-to-date in 2026. The most recent recorded award date is in December 2026. The competitive landscape is highly fragmented, with the top five award-by-count primes holding only 5 percent of recent awards. Crewfacilities.com, LLC leads by award count with 86 awards worth $9.7 million combined potential value, followed by Advantor Systems II LLC with 84 awards totaling $18.3 million. By potential value, HPI Federal LLC ranks first with 50 awards worth $42.6 million, and JC Technology Inc. follows with 65 awards worth $33.2 million. The remaining 19,464 distinct prime contractors share the vast majority of volume. Eighty percent of contract awards carry no set-aside designation; small-business set-asides account for 17 percent of awards across multiple programs. The remaining 3 percent consists of 8(a) awards (2 percent sole-source, less than 1 percent competitive), service-disabled veteran-owned small-business awards, HUBZone awards, woman-owned small-business awards, and other designated categories.

Grant activity runs substantially smaller in volume but serves a distinct funding purpose. The Air National Guard has issued 1,217 grant awards totaling $3 billion in federal dollars obligated since 2009, with total obligated value including non-federal share of $3.44 billion. Annual grant issuance has held steady between 149 and 165 awards per year from 2022 through 2025; only 4 awards have been issued year-to-date in 2026, with the most recent award in August 2026. All 1,217 grants are structured as Cooperative Agreements. Grant recipient concentration is fragmented: the top five recipients by award count hold 21 percent of recent grants. The Military Department of The State of Oklahoma leads by award count with 34 awards totaling $33.8 million in federal dollars, and the Department of Military Affairs Minnesota follows with 26 awards worth $49.7 million. By federal dollars obligated, Tennessee Department of Military dominates with 18 awards worth $237.4 million, and Military & Vet Affairs Dept ranks second with 25 awards totaling $88.2 million. Grant recipients are predominantly state-level military and adjutant-general offices across all 50 states and U.S. territories, reflecting the Air National Guard's structure as a federally-funded state-based organization.