Kentucky National Guard

The Department of the Army Kentucky Army National Guard, a sub-agency of the Department of Defense, procures supplies, services, and equipment to support Kentucky Army National Guard operations and mission readiness. The Kentucky Army National Guard is the state-based component of the Army National Guard and transacts through the United States Property and Fiscal Office for Kentucky (USPFO KY) as its contracting entity.

The Kentucky Army National Guard has awarded 5,209 federal contracts since 2002, with combined potential value of $208.7 million and combined dollars obligated of $260.1 million across 1,502 distinct prime contractors. Recent contract activity has been sparse: 6 awards in 2022, 2 in 2023, 6 in 2024, 35 in 2025, and 12 year-to-date in 2026. The most recent contract award closed on October 1, 2026. Contract competition is highly fragmented. Over the last five years, Creata Global Event Agency LLC, Freds 2 Rescue Inc., and World Wide Technology LLC account for the most awards (8, 7, and 3 respectively), but the top five primes by award count cover only 36 percent of recent awards. By potential value, concentration is even thinner — the top five primes over the last five years account for only 1 percent of combined potential value, with Freds 2 Rescue Inc. leading at $1.1 million across 7 awards. The portfolio shows "Recent awards (last 5 years) with no reported potential value," indicating heavy transactional reliance on Schedule task orders, BPA calls, or below-threshold purchase orders. Seventy-eight percent of all awards carry no set-aside designation; small-business set-asides (total Small Business and 8(a)) represent 20 percent of awards, with SDVOSB, HUBZone, and other socioeconomic set-asides accounting for 2 percent combined.

The Kentucky Army National Guard has obligated $416.5 million in federal grant dollars across 109 grant awards to 6 distinct recipients since 2009, with the most recent grant award closing on October 1, 2025. Grant activity has remained steady: 13 awards in 2021, 14 in 2022, 14 in 2023, 13 in 2024, and 10 in 2025. All 109 grants are Cooperative Agreements. Grant recipients are highly concentrated. Over the last five years, five recipients (all variants of Kentucky Department of Military Affairs and Department of Military Affairs Kentucky entities) account for 100 percent of awards and 42 percent of federal dollars obligated, with Kentucky Department of Military Affairs holding the largest federal share at $101 million across 7 awards.

Representative recent contract opportunities include JPS Interoperability Equipment (Special Notice, Total Small Business set-aside, due September 25, 2026, for Radio over IP dispatch operations equipment) and Blade Maintenance Stands (Solicitation W912KZ26QA003, Total Small Business set-aside, firm-fixed-price low-bid COTS procurement, due September 22, 2026).