New England Region

The Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration New England Region is a civilian sub-agency that administers federal aviation infrastructure funding and oversight across Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The office awards both contracts for aviation-related services and grants for airport and airway development and maintenance within its six-state jurisdiction.

Contract activity at the New England Region is minimal. Across the portfolio history since 2003, the office has issued 685 total contract awards valued at $3.33 billion in combined potential, though only $247.2 million has been obligated to date. Recent activity is sparse: 5 awards in 2019, 1 award in 2021, 1 in 2022, 2 in 2023, and 1 in 2025. Among the most recently active contractors, Honeywell International Inc. holds 2 awards worth $618 thousand combined potential, followed by Grot, Inc. with 1 award at $838 thousand and Burns & Mcdonnell Engineering Company, Inc. with 1 award at $159 thousand. The contractor base is highly fragmented—382 distinct primes across the portfolio history—reflecting the regional office's limited procurement volume. Eighty percent of awards carry no set-aside designation; the remainder split between total small business (14 percent), service-disabled veteran-owned small business variants (4 percent combined), and 8(a) designations (1 percent).

Grant activity dominates the office's federal funding footprint. Since 2007, the New England Region has obligated $2.94 billion in federal grant dollars across 1,520 total awards, with annual cadence of 135 awards in 2022, 145 in 2023, 143 in 2024, 164 in 2025, and 139 year-to-date in 2026. Project Grants comprise 71 percent of awards; Formula Grants make up 29 percent; Cooperative Agreements account for fewer than 1 percent. Grant recipients are moderately concentrated: the top five recipients hold 33 percent of federal dollars obligated over the last five years. Massachusetts Port Authority leads with 56 awards and $508.7 million federal dollars, followed by Rhode Island Airport Corp with 51 awards and $181.6 million, and City of Burlington with 28 awards and $103.5 million. The remaining 68 distinct recipients represent airports and transportation agencies across the region. The most recent grant award was issued on 2026-08-19.