Aero S E A T Inc.

Aero S E A T Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Sterling, Colorado, delivers aerial land management services to federal agencies as a 100% prime contractor with no subcontractor involvement. The company specializes in single-engine air tanker (SEAT) operations, aerial herbicide and pesticide application, aerial seeding, and wildland firefighting support, operating exclusively under small-business set-asides across most of its prime portfolio.

Aero S E A T's customer base centers on Department of the Interior land management agencies. The Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region anchors 73% of awards by count and accounts for $848.5 million of the $1 billion combined potential value across all awards — driven almost entirely by a single $400 million indefinite-delivery contract for on-call SEAT flight services through April 30, 2029. The BLM Nevada Region places the highest award frequency (26 awards) but with substantially smaller per-task-order ceilings, ranging from $9,117 to $450,837. The Department of Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Regions 1 and 6 together hold 16 awards worth $5.7 million, concentrated in herbicide application and fire recovery seeding. The USDA Forest Service holds a $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources National BPA (LMIR) awarded June 12, 2023 through March 6, 2033, and a $25 million single-award contract with the R4-Intermountain Region. USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) accounts for five awards across rangeland grasshopper and Mormon cricket suppression and predator control, with a $926,550 single-award indefinite-delivery contract for aerial insecticide treatment through April 30, 2027. The Federal Aviation Administration awarded a $900,303 single-award IDIQ through November 30, 2029 for Air Tractor initial and recurrent flight training.

Activity has grown sharply. Seven awards in 2022 accelerated to 27 in 2026 (as of late September). Across the award portfolio, 20 contracts face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $4.4 million and representing recompete exposure. The company competes predominantly on NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry; 64 of 92 awards) with secondary activity in flight training and aerial transportation. Primary performance occurs across western states — Nevada, Colorado, Montana, Oregon, Idaho, and Wyoming — with administrative headquarters in Sterling, Colorado.

Aero S E A T holds positions on seven named vehicle IDIQs and BPAs. The $400 million BLM SEAT flight services contract has generated at least three delivery orders totaling $3.1 million since February 2024. The $50 million LMIR BPA shows 27 task orders worth $5.9 million. The $49.5 million Fish and Wildlife Service National Hazardous Fuels Reduction BPA (multiple-award, Region 3) has placed five calls worth $2.3 million. The $10 million Interior Business Center on-call fixed-wing aircraft rental BPA (multiple-award, EO 14398) and a $9.98 million Interior Business Center on-call aircraft BPA (multiple-award) support wildfire and land management missions. APHIS holds two single-award indefinite-delivery contracts totaling $1.4 million (grasshopper suppression and wildlife services). The Air National Guard awarded a $1 million heavy tailwheel aircraft training BPA (multiple-award, June 8, 2026 through December 31, 2028) and a $350,000 flight training BPA II for AT-802 training (multiple-award, July 7, 2026 through July 6, 2031).

Service Contract Inventory data captures only federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold and excludes goods, micro-purchases, and non-federal revenue; the figure is a strict subset of Aero S E A T's federal activity. SCI records show $3.7 million in invoiced revenue across FY2022–FY2025, rising from $535,000 in FY2022 to $1.9 million in FY2025. The SCI dataset shows roughly 0.3 FTEs in FY2022, scaling to 1.2 FTEs by FY2025 across prime service contracts. Government-paid hourly rates on these SCI-reportable contracts ran a median of approximately $1,007/hr, with rates spanning a spectrum from roughly $891/hr at the 10th percentile to $1,124/hr at the 90th percentile. Aero S E A T engages no subcontractors on its prime contracts — 100% of work is performed in-house.

The vendor's set-aside posture skews heavily toward total small-business set-asides, with the vast majority of recent BPA calls and purchase orders designated TSB. A subset of task orders and delivery orders carry no set-aside designation, particularly those under the APHIS contracts, the FAA training IDIQ, and some of the larger SEAT flight services delivery orders. Across the 92 prime awards in the portfolio, Aero S E A T competes and holds nearly $1 billion in potential value, with obligated dollars of $19.6 million representing actual spend to date across the multi-year vehicle architecture. The recompete cliff presents material risk: six of the top seven vehicles by ceiling value—the BLM SEAT contract, USDA Forest Service LMIR and R4 contracts, Fish and Wildlife Service hazardous fuels reduction BPA, and Interior Business Center aircraft agreements—run through 2027–2033, anchoring the customer relationship but exposing to competitive recompete as individual task orders complete.