Alaska National Guard

The Department of the Army Alaska Army National Guard, a sub-agency of the Department of Defense and the principal contracting and grant-making entity for the Alaska Army National Guard's operations and readiness, procures supply, equipment, facility, and services contracts and funds cooperative agreements supporting military operations and training throughout Alaska.

The agency has awarded 2,713 federal contracts since 2000, with combined potential value of $182.7 million and combined dollars obligated of $223.9 million. Recent contract activity has held steady at 12 to 17 awards annually over the last five years: 17 awards in 2022, 12 in 2023, 15 in 2024, 12 in 2025, and 13 year-to-date in 2026. The most recent recorded award date is 2026-08-01. The agency transacts with 1,180 distinct prime contractors across its contract portfolio. Competitive concentration is highly fragmented; the top five primes by award count over the last five years account for 28 percent of recent awards, led by Dell Federal Systems L.P. (6 awards, $372 thousand combined potential value), World Wide Technology LLC (4 awards, $347 thousand), and Brice Engineering, LLC (3 awards, $2.3 million). By combined potential value over the same window, the top five primes hold just 2 percent of current-period value — a structural indicator that the agency transacts heavily through task orders, blanket purchase agreements, modifications, or below-threshold purchase orders where individual award values remain unreported. Eighty-six percent of all contract awards carry no set-aside designation; 11 percent are total small-business set-asides, and the remaining 3 percent are split between 8(a) sole-source awards, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, woman-owned small business, and HUBZone designations.

The Alaska Army National Guard has awarded 70 federal grants since October 2014, obligating $269.1 million in federal dollars (with combined federal and non-federal totals of $316.3 million). Recent grant activity has remained consistent at 7 awards annually in 2022 through 2025, with 1 award year-to-date in 2026; the most recent grant award closed on 2026-07-01. Grant recipient concentration is highly concentrated — 100 percent of recent awards and 49 percent of recent federal dollars went to a single recipient, the Alaska Department of Military and Veteran's Affairs, which received 29 awards totaling $133.1 million in federal dollars obligated. All 70 grants in the portfolio are structured as Cooperative Agreements.

Open contract solicitations posted in September 2026 span equipment and facility support: W50S6L-26-Q-0020 for a High-Density Mobile Shelving System at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (due 2026-09-28, total small-business set-aside, amended multiple times with site-visit details and seismic safety clarifications); W50S6L26Q0015 for waterproof computers for Rigid-Hull Inflatable Boats (due 2026-09-25, total small-business set-aside); W50S6L26Q0010 for 212 RQS RHIB watercraft (due 2026-09-23, brand-name requirement, total small-business set-aside); and W50S6L-26-Q-0006 for a Logistics Operational Device Cart (due 2026-08-27, total small-business set-aside, amended twice with virtual industry-day details and corrected pricing schedules). The agency has also posted pre-solicitation sources-sought notices announcing intent to award sole-source contracts for strategic community sponsorship — People Mover bus wraps, Anchorage Wolverines sports sponsorship, and O'Malley Ice and Sports Center venue advertising — all filed under FAR 13.106-1(b) and seeking capability statements from alternative qualified vendors. No recent grant opportunities are recorded against the agency or its descendant offices.