Cambridge Airport Authority

Cambridge Airport Authority, a local government-owned airport authority headquartered in Cambridge, Nebraska, is a federal grant recipient (100% of recent awards) that performs airport infrastructure development and operations work funded by the Federal Aviation Administration. The Authority does not hold federal contracts or contract vehicles; all recent federal engagement is through FAA grants under the Airport Improvement Program and related infrastructure funding mechanisms.

Cambridge Airport Authority's customer footprint is concentrated entirely within the Federal Aviation Administration's Central Region, which accounts for all thirteen awards in the source data across two FAA funding streams: the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Central Region (8 awards) and the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration (5 awards). Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $6.2 million.

Recent grant work centers on a multi-phase aircraft hangar construction project at Cambridge Municipal Airport spanning design, construction, and final-phase completion. Representative awards include a $326.667 thousand formula grant under the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.106) on August 5, 2024, for hangar design (Phase 1), a $497.895 thousand project grant under the same program on July 11, 2025, for construction, and a $633.895 thousand formula grant also on July 11, 2025, covering construction as part of the final phase. A companion $144.210 thousand project grant awarded February 19, 2026, under the Airport Infrastructure Grants program (CFDA 20.117) funds the final construction phase, with project completion scheduled for July 10, 2029. The hangar project is explicitly authorized under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act's expanded eligibility provisions and is coordinated across multiple FAA funding sources to cover all eligible project costs. Cambridge Airport Authority also holds a weather reporting infrastructure grant from July 1, 2022 (completion June 30, 2026), for installation of a Type III Automated Weather Observing System, and received pandemic-relief grants in 2021 under the American Rescue Plan Act and Coronavirus Relief and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act for operations and personnel costs.

Award volume is sparse and irregular across the past five years (two awards in 2021, one in 2022, one in 2024, two in 2025, and one in 2026), reflecting the episodic nature of airport infrastructure grant funding rather than sustained operational contracting. Cambridge Airport Authority operates as a municipal airport authority recipient rather than as a contractor or service provider; the Authority itself executes grant-funded construction and infrastructure projects on its own asset base.