Board Of Animal Health

Board of Animal Health, Indiana State Board of Animal Health Division is a U.S. state government entity that receives federal cooperative agreements to operate animal disease surveillance, meat and poultry inspection, and animal identification traceability programs on behalf of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The Board operates as a federal grant recipient (100% of its recent federal awards are prime grants, with no subcontract work), headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, and subordinate to the State of Indiana.

The Board's federal grant portfolio concentrates overwhelmingly on USDA funding. The top two customer agencies by award count account for 100% of recent awards: the Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has funded 32 cooperative agreements, and the Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has funded 12 cooperative agreements. A nominal amount of Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration work appears in the portfolio (two awards, $49 thousand combined potential value), representing less than one percent of the total. The Board holds no contracts, GWACs, or BPAs; its entire federal footprint is composed of recurring annual cooperative agreements under CFDA programs managed by APHIS and FSIS.

The Board's capability work spans animal disease surveillance, emergency response, and food safety oversight. Representative APHIS awards include a $132,867 cooperative agreement (CFDA 10.025, Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care) for animal disease traceability infrastructure maintenance and official animal identification administration for the period April 1, 2026 through March 31, 2027; recurring cooperative agreements for sheep and goat scrapie surveillance, swine health surveillance, and foreign animal disease preparedness; and emergency response agreements for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreak response and dairy HPAI response. FSIS cooperative agreements (CFDA 10.475 and 10.477) fund Indiana's operation of state-administered meat and poultry inspection programs, with a $3.998 million annual award effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026 to conduct ante-mortem and post-mortem inspections, enforce federal labeling compliance, and maintain inspection infrastructure at processing facilities. The Board also administers chronic wasting disease (CWD) genetic resistance programs through APHIS awards supporting genomic testing and selective breeding initiatives for cervid producers.

Activity has remained relatively flat, with five to eight awards annually over the past five years (five in 2022, six in 2023, seven in 2024, eight in 2025, and two recorded for 2026 as of the data date). Seven awards reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete in that window. Combined obligated dollars across the portfolio total $32.3 million against a combined potential value of $49 thousand, reflecting the fact that obligated amounts far exceed nominal potential-value ceilings listed in the source data — a pattern consistent with recurring annual cooperative agreements where actual disbursements track multi-year program budgets rather than single-award maximums. The Board operates entirely within federal-state cooperative frameworks and does not compete in open federal procurement.