Aero S E A T Inc.

Aero S E A T Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Sterling, Colorado, operates as a 100% prime contractor delivering single-engine air tanker operations, aerial herbicide and pesticide application, aerial seeding, and wildland firefighting support services to federal land management agencies. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation competing predominantly under total small business set-asides across its footprint, with service contracts and IDIQs anchored in the set-aside category.

Aero S E A T's customer base centers tightly on the Department of the Interior. The top customer by potential value, the Bureau of Land Management's Idaho Region, anchors $847.5 million of the combined portfolio value across fifteen awards—dominated by a single-award $400 million indefinite-delivery contract for SEAT flight services running through April 2029. The second-tier customer by dollars, USDA Forest Service Washington Office Acquisitions, holds a $50 million Land Management Integrated Resources (LMIR) National BPA awarded June 2023 through March 2033. The Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 sits third with a $49.5 million multiple-award hazardous fuels reduction BPA running through March 2029. By award count, 71% of recent activity concentrates in five customer agencies: BLM Nevada Region (20 awards, $2.5 million combined value), BLM Idaho Region (15 awards, $847.5 million), FWS Region 6 (8 awards, $1.7 million), USDA APHIS Plant Protection and Quarantine (5 awards, $440 thousand), and FWS Region 1 (5 awards, $2.3 million). The extreme concentration in the Idaho Region SEAT contract—which represents roughly 85% of all combined potential value—signals recompete exposure; however, the contract runs five-plus years from February 2024, placing near-term recompete cliff pressure minimal. Within the next twenty-four months, ten awards totaling $1.4 million face completion, primarily herbicide and seeding calls under the LMIR and hazardous fuels reduction vehicles.

Aero S E A T holds a portfolio of high-value vehicles enabling task-order procurement: the $400 million single-award SEAT IDC with BLM Idaho (15 task orders, predominantly under $2 million each); the $50 million LMIR National BPA with Forest Service (16 task orders, averaging under $175 thousand); a $49.5 million Fish and Wildlife Service hazardous fuels reduction BPA (4 task orders including a $1.75 million fire emergency stabilization call awarded November 2024); a $10 million Interior Business Center aircraft rental agreement (2 awards); a $926.5 thousand USDA APHIS grasshopper and Mormon cricket aerial treatment IDC; a $4.5 million National Interagency Fire Center light fixed-wing services IDC awarded July 2025; and a $900.3 thousand FAA Air Tractor training IDC awarded November 2024. The company also sits on a smaller $489.5 thousand USDA Wildlife Services aircraft services contract. Seven named IDVs or BPAs issued since February 2022 represent roughly 99% of portfolio value.

Recent representative contract work underscores specialization in aerial land management. On July 9, 2026, BLM Idaho Region issued a $65.1 thousand delivery order for on-call SEAT flight services (ultimate completion April 2027); the same day, FWS Region 6 issued a $240 thousand BPA call for herbicide and fire management at Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge in Montana, and BLM Oregon-Washington Region awarded a $156.4 thousand purchase order for aerial seeding supporting Bowman Wells Fire recovery in Lakeview, Oregon. On June 17, 2026, Forest Service Idaho Region issued a $155.5 thousand LMIR BPA call for fall herbicide application. Earlier, on November 5, 2024, FWS Region 1 awarded a $1.75 million BPA call for fire emergency stabilization at Hart Mountain in Lakeview, Oregon, with performance through December 2025. On June 14, 2024, USDA APHIS awarded a $146.3 thousand IDC for rangeland grasshopper aerial suppression in Montana. Work spans support activities for forestry (NAICS 115310, 51 awards), soil preparation and planting (115112, 12 awards), nonscheduled chartered air services (4 awards), and flight training (4 awards).

Award activity has grown year over year—seven awards in 2022 escalating to twenty-two in 2025, with ten recorded in 2026 through mid-July. The vendor operates at high utilization on large vehicles; the $400 million SEAT contract, in place since February 2024, has generated six delivery orders with combined values exceeding $3.6 million to date. SCI-reported federal service invoicing totaled $1.7 million across FY2022–FY2024 ($535 thousand in FY2022, zero in FY2023, $1.2 million in FY2024), reflecting roughly 0.3–0.5 FTEs on government-reportable service contracts above the $150 thousand threshold; this SCI snapshot excludes the vast majority of the vendor's federal contract revenue, which flows through deliverables-based or time-and-materials purchase orders and task orders on the IDIQs and BPAs rather than through service-contract vehicles with SCI reporting. On SCI-captured contracts, median government-paid hourly rates ran around $1,007 per hour, with a 90th percentile reaching $1,123 per hour. The vendor performs 100% of its delivery in-house on SCI-reportable primes with no subcontractor hours recorded, and operates as a pure prime across the entire footprint with no sub awards in the source data.